C. S. Lewis Quotes

Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.
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I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.
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I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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If I'm trying to rebound after a bad hole, I just go back to tempo and process and rhythm, and I cling to my routine.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
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You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.
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I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.
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Golf is the only game in which a precise knowledge of the rules can earn one a reputation for bad sportsmanship.
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It used to be that you made an album and then you went on the road to promote that album, hoping for good record sales. Well, good record sales basically don't exist any more, and the emphasis has been more on the live show.
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I always love performing live, and that's what I was doing that started getting me acting parts, so I still find time do it.
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Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.