C. S. Lewis Quotes
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful.
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The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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The economic sense of possibility was so great when I was growing up that my parents had no question that I could do anything I wanted to do, even as a girl. I've always believed that the economics of a story intersects with the women's story - that stuff often happens at the time it happens because of the economy.
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Damning taxes is a piece of cake. It's defending them that's hard.
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My music is like a diary. I use every experience.
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I have been very fortunate in my life. I think I have an angel that is always with me. Good projects always come to me.
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There is something fundamentally fascinating about the mechanics, I guess, of the human body and where consciousness and mind exist, and what you can do with the mechanics of the body while keeping those intact, and where those two cross over.
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Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
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No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.
