C. S. Lewis Quotes
What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
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I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.
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I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded.
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To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
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The Ferrari is a beautiful car. It's great.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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All good actors are actresses. The more like a woman they are, the better they act, because a man's salvation is his femininity. Women have stronger sensibilities than men, which allows them to go a bit deeper when they are on and off the stage.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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Those who promote hatred, bigotry, and fear do not represent America and do not represent us.
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A capable and confident man with a strong desire to accomplish something great, can do anything in life.
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Sometimes it’s not about speed about power, it’s about up here man points to his head. All these guys are not with me mentally.
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God never answers prayers. It is people who answer their own prayers by knowing how to connect and utilize the divine energy of the Creator and the God-like force in their own souls.
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But we are gravely mistaken to think that Christianity protects us from the pain and agony of mortal existence. Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear precedes the crown we wear. To be a Christian, one must take up his cross, with all of its difficulties and agonizing and tragedy-packed content, and carry it until that very cross leaves its marks upon us and redeems us to that more excellent way which comes only through suffering.
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What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.
