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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Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.
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Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
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The man who is unprincipled in private life will never make a good public servant, nor will one who is of no account at home prove a man of light and leading with the embassy in Macedonia; for he has only changed his abode, not his nature.
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When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue. But it didn't really translate into careers for any of them, because the external is the easy part.
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We moved to a place where we felt the children could have as normal an upbringing as possible. Los Angeles was not it. We live in a place with clean air and animals.
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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.
