Life Quotes
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The idea of getting to make a movie like the ones that impacted me as a child is my life's dream.
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Sometimes bad things are going to happen in your life, and those things can make you stronger if you just learn how to get over them.
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When you're an artist, there's always a moment in your life when you think you're not inspired and instead of doing things and instead of travel and instead of falling in love, you're just depressed, so you don't move, so you don't change. So you're not inspired.
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[last words] What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd.
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I flip the turntables. I write a lot from the male perspective, but as a female. That's how I live my life. I can roll with the boys.
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Weddings are important because they celebrate life and possibility.
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I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don’t have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.
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I love all the premieres and everything that goes with it, but my favourite part is being on set and to go to work and enjoy your job. Not many people can say that in life.
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How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?
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It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.
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I do have a tendency to want to go back to school at all times in my life. Maybe I'll do the Ph.D. in art history when I'm 50, or maybe divinity school. I like teaching, too.
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I don't think anybody should ever take their life for being bullied. But if it wasn't for my family... and my circle of friends, I could definitely see why someone would see it doesn't get any better than this, but it does. Life is so beautiful.
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I didn't realize when I first started writing how much it would set me free from certain situations in my life. It's incredible.
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You don't have control of the car, but you can drive it. Life takes you where it wants you to go and where you need to go.
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Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.
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The more you are positive and say, 'I want to have a good life,' the more you build that reality for yourself by creating the life that you want.
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I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning.
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I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story.
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So in life, some enter the services of fame and others money, but the best choice is that of those few who spend their time in the contemplation of nature, and as lovers of wisdom.
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I've dated a couple of guys who were awesome, and the celebrity part of my life and the traveling part are hard to get around. You never get to see each other, especially if you're both musicians.
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Even if you wanted to be a hermit, people come out looking for you. I don't want to cloister myself away, but it is important for me to write about issues that have universal significance. One of them that have resonated with me all my life has been the theme of injustice.
