C. S. Lewis Quotes
Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
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Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
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The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
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My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.'
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It was cool to meet Cris Carter. That dude has some of the best hands to have played the game.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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Travelling expands the mind rarely.
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Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.
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Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
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When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.
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We need to have a more thoughtful, two-sided conversation about racial issues in this country.
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Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no one thinks of teaching, in that context, as a kind of forcing of the will. But there seems to be an idea of writing as an intuitive pastime which is being dishonestly subjected to counterintuitive methods.
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I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.
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Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'
