C. S. Lewis Quotes
The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. Theories as to how it did this are another matter. A good many different theories have been held as to how it works; what all Christians are agreed on is that it does work.
Quotes to Explore
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If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.
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I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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It always starts with a script. I like to have plenty of time to read something, and I always like to read a paper copy. I hate reading it on email. I sit down with a script, and want to see how it hits me. It's an instinctive process.
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I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
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The fans treated me royally.
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The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you're writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn't work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.
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Working with the likes of Joseph Fiennes was just an incredible experience.
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If I could press a button and have all of Sequoia Capital on the Midas List, I would choose to do that over a honoring a single individual.
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I know that my fans want to know who I'm sleeping with, but it's really none of their business.
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Everyone is in the same situation, at different levels and in different places.
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Speaking can be a lot like exercise: The more time you spend getting ready, the more you mentally build the task into something larger than it actually is.
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The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. Theories as to how it did this are another matter. A good many different theories have been held as to how it works; what all Christians are agreed on is that it does work.
