C. S. Lewis Quotes
Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. They are still only playing with religion. Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger-according to the way you react to it.
Quotes to Explore
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
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People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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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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I've just been working hard, trying to get some good stuff to come out.
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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
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With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.
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Psychologists pay lip service to the scientific method, and use it whenever it is convenient; but when it isn't they make wild leaps of their uncontrolled fancy.
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Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. They are still only playing with religion. Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger-according to the way you react to it.
