C. S. Lewis Quotes
Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.
Quotes to Explore
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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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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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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I haven't received any pressure to be anything other than myself, and for that, I am so grateful.
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We live in an age that makes truth pass for treason, and as I dare not say anything against it, so the ears of those that are about me will probably be found too tender to hear it. This my trial and condemnation do sufficiently evidence.
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Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles.
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For a woman as for a man, marriage might enormously help or devastatingly hinder the growth of her power to contribute something impersonally valuable to the community in which she lived, but it was not that power, and could not be regarded as an end in itself. Nor, even, were children ends in themselves; it was useless to go on producing human beings merely in order that they, in their sequence, might produce others, and never turn from this business of continuous procreation to the accomplishment of some definite and lasting piece of work.
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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
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Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.
