Life Quotes
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Having kids sets a bomb off in your life. It really makes you examine who you are, what you believe in and what you want to be. And that is magical for creativity.
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Emily Dickinson has haunted my life - her poems, her persona, all the tales about her solitude. Ever since I discovered her in the seventh grade, I've had a crush on that spinster in white, who had such a heroic and startling inner landscape of her own.
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My life is pretty ordinary in so many ways. I live in a town called Plainville. I have the life of an average dad. It feels like I have this secret identity as an author, and it's still very surreal to me.
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Taking the company private was not the easiest thing I've done in my life.
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My Mum taught me great manners. And she always told me that you can be or do whatever in life, as long as you don't hurt anyone and you're happy. My Mum's great; I adore her.
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I'm an escapist. I'm not a planner; I've never made a decision about anything in my life. The good thing about Africa is that you can escape forever. You can do what you want without someone looking over your shoulder.
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My parents taught me many of the things that people need in life to feel confident: practical things, such as managing finances, mucking out the goat barn, cleaning a house, doing repairs, mending a broken roof or a toilet.
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I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.
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There are a lot of challenges Ofglen faces as a Handmaid. She has to live her life for the Commander of her home, Glen, and it is really a bleak life. She has no rights, and her main job is to keep him and the rest of the people in his house happy.
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I don’t really care that much about if I want to be more successful or less successful in art, because I never think life and art should be separate. What’s life if you don’t have conversation and joy and anger?
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As all my friends said, 'Linda, enjoy this time.' It wasn't enjoyable the first time because they're were too many questions. But I think I've lived a solid life. You can look at who I've been, good, bad or indifferent.
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If my children will live a better life than I did by my getting brain damage, by my being brain dead, then let it be.
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Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.
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I used to be really afraid and anxious of taking on too much, and the older I'm getting, the more fearless I'm becoming. Life is so much more relaxed when you're like that.
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When you sing that this country was founded on freedom, don't forget the duet of shackles dragging against the ground my entire life.
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I care about people, and I've learned in life that the only thing we are here for is to learn and teach.
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The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
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A secure life and a well developed social system; not many people fall through the net. And shared values, I would say; that sense of equality...
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Many women... have buoyed me up in times of weariness and stress. Each friend was important... Their words have seasoned my life. Influence, just like salt shaken out, is hard to see, but its flavor is hard to miss.
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The ultimate aim in life should be to fulfill to the utmost all that within our ability and to share that which is good and beautiful.
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A sparkle was in his eye, but his life was in his hand.
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The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike, Meaning to make such music as shall save. Mine eyes are dim now that they see the truth, My strength is waned now that my need is most; Would that I had such help as man must have, For I shall die, whose life was all men's hope.
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Joy and sorrow are the light and shade of life; without light and shade no picture is clear.
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The greatest obstacle in 'Tetris' is time and one's own ability to navigate it - kind of like life itself.
