C. S. Lewis Quotes
There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.
Quotes to Explore
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If somebody says I'm a leader or notices the things I try to do to be a leader, it's the ultimate compliment.
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I have nothing but contempt for Gadhafi. I'm not a Gadhafi supporter in any way. However, it's not clear to me that it's a vital and compelling national security objective of the United States that we ought to use military force to remove him from power. He's not the only unpleasant and unsavory dictator in the world.
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We have to be careful not to look for confidence in the acceptance of others because true confidence only comes from knowing God.
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It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.
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Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
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I spent 19 years as a Washington reporter covering a variety of beats.
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In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died – an entire town destroyed.
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If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.
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'The Five' is so special is because we all have such diverse backgrounds. It's such a nice mix of men, of women, and the variety of where we come from, different walks of life, different occupations, and certainly different viewpoints. That's what makes it so unique.
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One of the interesting things about the 'Decameron' itself was it was written in the Florentine dialect as opposed to the Latin vernacular - and that was mainly to have it be a piece of literature for the people as supposed to some kind of highfalutin' canon.
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I always knew that I wanted to work and I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actor. I knew that every choice I made would help me get to that point. So the better the choices I made, the more of a chance I would have to get to where I wanted to be.
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Love has no boundaries.
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God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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If you watch the scroll at the very start of 'A New Hope,' you'll see plenty of references to the story we tell in 'Rogue One.' And I play a rebel General.
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My mom always canned, and she taught us to take care of ourselves. She taught us everything from canning and sewing, and dad taught us everything we needed to know about farming.
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I'm very much bigger than I was, so what? It's not really fatness, it's development.
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The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.
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Grace doesn't obsess with ourselves. It obsesses with people and with brokenness. This is a hard place to live, but God is bigger than hard places to live.
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The most obvious difference between writing novels and memoirs is that my memoirs are true stories, and explore certain experiences I've lived, and thus operate within the boundaries of memory and fact.
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The biggest takeaway for anyone seeking to write is this: don't go looking for the way other authors do their work. You won't find many who are consistent enough to copy, and there are enough variations in approach that it's obvious that it's not like hitting home runs or swinging a golf club. There isn't a standard approach, there's only what works for you (and what doesn't).
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There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.
