C. S. Lewis Quotes
The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
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I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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I had some interesting costumes... the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn't let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.
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One time I got dressed in all black, Rambo-style, and took a massive pair of bolt-cutters and nicked a military bike.
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Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.
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I stare at him coldly. "I do not care for needlework." I pause. "Unless it involves the base of the skull.
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For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion.
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The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart -- it is a book full of all the greed and glory and violence and tenderness and sex and betrayal that befits mankind. It is not the collection of pretty little anecdotes mouthed by pious little church mice -- it does not so much nibble at our shoe leather as it cuts to the heart and splits the marrow from the bone. It does not give us answers fitted to our small-minded questions, but truth that goes beyond what we even know to ask.
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The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.
