Life Quotes
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I came from a happy family with loving parents, so my associations with marriage and children were all happy, positive things that brought me comfort as a child, which I wanted in my life.
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Something I found while writing 'Alice & Oliver' - a book that is unquestionably a work of fiction, but which also borrows details from my own life - is that writing the truth often requires invention and imagination.
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I guess if there is a big spiritual experience in my life, it is me becoming a mother.
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I have very strongly this feeling... that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary.
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We do only three things in life: we sit, we stand, we lie horizontal. The rest is just a story.
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If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great.
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I tried not to make God this big deal in Joan's life. She treats God like a friend: she's nice to him some days, and other days mean, and then cries when she needs help.
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The camera is as much a part of my everyday life as talking or eating or sex.
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I was born in Rocky Mount, NC. The town of 24,000 proved a great place to spend the first 17 years of life. But, after that, onward, outward.
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One who has never known the turbulence of life, in whom the petals of the mysterious flower within have never opened; such a one may seem happy, may seem a saint, his single track mind may impress the multitude with its power - but he is ill equipped for life's true adventure into the infinite.
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It's funny: 'Next Thing' was written in a time of my life when I was actually really naive and thought that I was wise.
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In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life.
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An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.
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'The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch.
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Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.
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The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.
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Here are a few of the actors who have brought my novels to TV life: Bill Pullman, Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand, Julian Sands, Gena Rowlands, Rob Lowe, Julia Ormond, Chelsea Hobbs, Tate Donovan, Anne Heche, Max Martini, Campbell Scott, Kimberly Paisley-Williams, Alexa Vega, and the late legends Richard Kiley and Kim Hunter.
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I'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as a darkroom tool, that's fine, too. But at this point of my life, after so many years, I don't really want to change, and I still love film.
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Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
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I have lived in this city my whole life and have seen the way gentrification has changed it. I'm not necessarily against transplants, as 75 percent of my good friends, roommate, and boyfriend are not native New Yorkers.
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As a kid, I was creative and unique, and I've had that my whole life.
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Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.
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I think I've had a very privileged life.
