C. S. Lewis Quotes
The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.
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Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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It's nice to film in somewhere that you actually love being. Usually, you're in a studio for months on end, and you never see any daylight, so you really make the most of it.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.
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As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.
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I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
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Your life is right now! It's not later! It's not in that time of retirement. It's not when the lover gets here. It's not when you've moved into the new house. It's not when you get the better job. Your life is right now. It will always be right now. You might as well decide to start enjoying your life right now, because it's not ever going to get better than right now-until it gets better right now!
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There isn't really a theatre culture in L.A., which is odd when there are so many brilliant actors there.
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I am done doing that, ... I don't see it getting any better.
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I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate if they do, and if they don't.
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Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is nothing more natural than sexual desire; there is nothing less natural than the forms in which it is made manifest and satisfied.
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The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.
