C. S. Lewis Quotes

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing.

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I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.
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A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
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An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.
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The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.
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Yoga is a life-saver.
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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I write novels and other things.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
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Politicians make phony promises all the time that they can't deliver.
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I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring.
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I like to get a salad or fruit in me - just some good energy food - and then a plate a pasta with a breast of chicken.
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I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.
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Although I've been a longtime Democrat (primarily because, unless there is some very compelling reason to be otherwise, I am always for 'the little guy'), my political orientation is not rigid. For instance, I supported John McCain's run for the presidency in 2000.
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“We don’t want to get known as doing our old stuff. We want to do the new stuff.”
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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The most valuable things in a life are a man's memories. And they are priceless.
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Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.
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I leave the astronaut job with great memories but also great expectations for our country's future in space.
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A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing.