Life Quotes
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Our circadian biology, and the insatiable early-morning demands of a post-industrial way of life, denies us the sleep we vitally need.
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People like to pigeonhole. People like to label - not just books and movies, but everything in their life. If people want to call me 'literary horror,' I guess that's fine. What I'm trying to do is be both thrilling and thought-provoking.
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I state in my book 'Become Your Own Matchmaker,' confidence is the key to any endeavor. Women don't realize that when they do things they love and are passionate about - their confidence soars. Men are attracted to women who feel happy and decisive about life.
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People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?
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I don't really wish that it didn't happen because it has changed my life so much. If it didn't happen, I don't know if I ever would have waken up.
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That's my style of fighting. I am throwing down, you know? Having fun. And that's my approach to life.
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As stated earlier, I am a pessimistic optimist, or what I like to call a 'pissed-omist.' This is a person who has lived long enough to know not to expect much from most people or life in general, but still allows him- or herself the hope that somewhere under all the horseshit there may possibly be a pony.
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Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal attainment. Without goals, you simply drift and flow on the currents of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target.
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There are two or three performances in your life that are absolutely on, where all the planets are lined up for you and you feel you're invincible.
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You have to have an ego to be an actor, but you need an ego just to get through life! Unless you want to sit on a corner and suck your thumb, it takes a healthy ego to get up in the morning and say, 'I deserve to be here.'
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When you're an adult, when times are good, entire years go by in what feels like the space of one season. But the worst trick time plays on you is just how slowly the worst times in your life take you to live through.
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It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind.
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Most reporters I've spoken with want very badly to understand what is happening to her, but the 'why' is really very unimportant. That is just not the point of the show. The journey is how she will deal with this situation, and how it will change her life.
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I have to believe there's some other life force out there. I don't know in what form. But we can't have all these galaxies and universes without something going on.
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I do the same kind of rewriting that I do in the shorts that I do in long books - and that is a lot. The book really comes to life in the rewriting.
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The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.
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When I was 18 I worked with the Ringling Brothers circus, taking care of menagerie animals. I used to rather deliberately risk my life with the big cats.
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People don't understand the devastation the murder of a child does to someone. Eighty percent of parents of murdered children wind up in divorce. The only thing you have in common is that horrible sadness. You can't see the joy of your previous life.
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One can be a vegan and eating a health-promoting, high-nutrient diet, but one can also eat a small amount of animal products while following a Nutritarian diet and still live a long, healthy life.
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I was never physically abused, but when I came out to my parents late in life, when I was 27, they definitely had an intervention.
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You never know where life is going to take you. So everything I do, I just take it one day at a time, and it always leads you to the right place.
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'X Factor' was the best experience of my life to be part of a show watched by so many people.
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An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
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Men come and go - God knows they certainly have in my life - but girlfriends are for ever. I have a lot of girlfriends but only a few very, very close ones.
