William Merritt Chase Quotes
Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.
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I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.
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Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.
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I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.
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I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.
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Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.
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Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
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Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.
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That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.
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One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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When I first heard about Twittering, I thought it was the most disgusting thing I'd ever heard of in my life. It's like the devil: the idea that your personal life is there for everybody.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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Music is everywhere and in everything! I draw my inspiration from the day to day activities of my life!
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You just can't help but sort of think that your life and your career are going to go straight up, up, up.
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I want nothing to do with O.J. Simpson. I want that name so far behind me, I want it out of my life.
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The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
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We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live.
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It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be regulated and composed by itself.
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I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded.
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This has always been my life and no one else's, and that's how it's always been since the day I came in it.
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Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.
