C. S. Lewis Quotes
Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.
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There is always pressure in football.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
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I sometimes have to write for a while before I figure it out, pretend that I know what I'm doing, sort of like ad-libbing on stage until you remember your line - you hope you sound convincing to the audience. The key is to have enough material, enough threads, so that there's something that can be satisfyingly drawn to a conclusion.
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I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.
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People still say to me, 'What was it like being in such a huge flop?' The amount of hatred and vitriol was surprising.
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The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
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I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them.
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Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.
