C. S. Lewis Quotes
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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I know it might seem a little superficial, but every actor has their thing. Some people focus on the walk, but for me, it's all about the nails and the voice. Those are the two most important things.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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Harry Dresden: Dresden Taxidermy. You snuff it, we'll stuff it.
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That's how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It recreates some forgotten terror. Something we'd like to think we're grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It's something you'd hoped was healed.
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I did a co-authored book not so long ago that was an American historical romance set at the turn of the century. I'm fascinated by that period in time and would love to do more.
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The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.
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Now that I'm a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.
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I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop.
