Life Quotes
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Quantum fiction is any story that witnesses life and the human experience on a subatomic level.
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My parents lived by Rancho Park. And my mom, later in life, got into playing golf. She and her male cronies would get up at five in the morning and sneak onto the back nine. I kind of just started getting into it. For a long time, I was really puzzled by why people liked it.
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I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms. In America, possibly because of whatever the American dream is, this happens over and over again. These eras repeat.
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I sometimes buy albums that I don't like now, but that I know I will like. Coming out was the same thing. In high school, I thought, 'I know I'm going to have to deal with this, but I'm not confident enough now.' But when I finally did, my whole life changed.
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That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.
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In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses.
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When I first told people I was writing a book, some would say that was interesting, but others thought it was some holiday project and I would lose interest. I think my parents thought the same thing, and they were surprised when I kept going. I'm not sure I thought I would keep going, but then it became a big part of my life.
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Some writers just write about their own lives. Well, I don't want to do that. I want to have a really boring life. A quiet, boring life so no one wants to write a biography. I'm the only writer in history only to have one wife, for instance.
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A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.
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I now see what the really important things in life are and they don't relate to what I do for a living.
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The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe form of punishment because it is so final. The human life is ended and the executed person is deprived of the opportunity to change, to restore the harm done or compensate for it.
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Golf is a lot like life. When you make a decision, stick with it.
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I'm sure one reason I became an actor is my basic unwillingness to live one life.
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God puts certain things in certain people. I'm a restless soul. I'm always searching. I'm always pressing to find what truth is and what life is all about.
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I was very blessed it was Steven Spielberg who made the movie. He was very much into the redemption side of the story. They asked him in an interview why he had owned the rights to this story for 20 years before he made the movie, and he said, 'I wanted to see what the real Frank Abagnale did with his life before I immortalised him on film.'
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The two most painful things in my life are arthritis and divorce.
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Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
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Although there are real hazards in saying yes to life, they are inconsequential when compared to the regrets that come with saying "no".
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It does influence every part of your life and it influences every decision you make. (speaking about faith)
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Everything that is contradictory creates life.
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I am very proud of being Jewish. I went to a Jewish school all my life.
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America is the light, and her people are the goodness that grows from that. She'll always be worth fighting for - it was my greatest honor to fight for her every day of my adult life.
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I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.
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Life is hard, but there are moments, sometimes hours - and, if you're really lucky, full days - where everything feels just right.
