Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.
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I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.
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It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was something missing, and I couldn't for the life of me figure it out. And then this little piece of information - this little tweet - came to the forefront of my mind.
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While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
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So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, because I was in it. When I retired, I wanted the opportunity to be a little bit more flexible and home-based for my kids.
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Life's too short not to have fun with what you wear.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high school, and said: 'I have a chance to run. I may not win, but I'd be gone three nights a week. So, if you want me to stay, I'll be happy to.' And do you know what she said to me? 'Mother, get a life!'
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'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
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Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
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I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.
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I've had an amazing career and amazing blessings. But I'm an everyday person, and I have lived an everyday life, and I drive an everyday car.
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It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
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I tend to read non-fiction.
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I've been on what I call my UFO Tour, which means, like UFOs, I too have been appearing in small southern towns in front of a handful of hillbillies lately. I've been doubting my own existence.
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Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and that led to my - it touched me in a way that really led to me opening up my heart, I've called it the re-humanisation process.
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.
