C. S. Lewis Quotes
It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a man's.
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.
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There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
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I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
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I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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I think Mickey Gall's going to be really good.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.
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We often have an exaggerated sense of what nonprofits and governments are doing to help the poor, but the really inspiring thing is how much the poor are doing to help themselves.
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I look on all the world as my parish; thus far I mean, that, in whatever part of it I am, I judge it meet, right, and my bounden duty, to declare unto all that are willing to hear, the glad tidings of salvation.
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Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want to write.
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Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat.
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When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
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It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a man's.
