C. S. Lewis Quotes

There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they would most have admired the card index.

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• To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

  

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• I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

  

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• It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.

  

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• If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.

  

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• No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.

  

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• I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.

  

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• What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.

  

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• The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.

  

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• Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.

  

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• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

  

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• Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.

  

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• If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.

  

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• There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they would most have admired the card index.

  

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