C. S. Lewis Quotes
If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete, in simplicity with people who are inventing religions. How could we? We are dealing with Fact. Of course anyone can be simple if he has no facts to bother about.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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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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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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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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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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My family is Chilean, and I was born there. By the time I was four, we were living in San Antonio, Texas, and I just remember picking a blue bonnet and getting yelled at by some guy with a sheriff hat and a badge. I was traumatized. He told me it was the state flower, and I wasn't supposed to be messin' with it.
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The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession. I feel watched 90% of the time, but that is something I drew with the cards that I drew.
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I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.
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Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I'm always looking beyond the surface. I've done that ever since I first picked up a camera.
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If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete, in simplicity with people who are inventing religions. How could we? We are dealing with Fact. Of course anyone can be simple if he has no facts to bother about.
