C. S. Lewis Quotes
On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him. Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about. Christian Love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
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That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
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Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.
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I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.
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Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
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Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.
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I'm not the greatest driver. I don't know if I'll ever master the art.
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Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.
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Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.
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My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call 'education of the heart'.
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This report shows the war on terrorism became a war on immigrants
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On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him. Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about. Christian Love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.
