Life Quotes
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In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.
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I want to have not only the good side of life but the bad side of life. And the both combined is just my music. It's funny at the same time as it's sad.
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When you're improvising, it's fun to find something that you can lean on that is similar to your life experience. In my opinion, that's very helpful.
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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
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I grew up feeling that to be gay was a tragedy. I didn't grow up thinking that it was morally wrong, but I grew up thinking that it would make me marginal, prevent me from having children, and quite possibly prevent me from having a meaningful long relationship. It seemed that this condition would leave me with a vastly reduced life.
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Let the men do their duty & the women will be such wonders; the female life lives from the light of the male: see a man's female dependants, you know the man.
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Life is shining a light through a magnifying glass on me, looking for me to stumble. I think that's my biggest fear.
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Life is a series of choices that are made in the present moment.
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You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.
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I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate.
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Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a few unusual writers can make something great without that.
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Ten masts make not the altitude Which thou hast perpendicularly fell. Thy life's a miracle.
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All improvement in your life begins with an improvement in your mental pictures.
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To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach.
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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When you are consciously aware of all that you have to be grateful for, your life is in perfect harmony.
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What I'm saying is, 'Look, life is a long thing, and I don't need enemies. I need friends just like Donald Trump.'
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I have no regrets in my life whatsoever.
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We're taught that domestic life is not a "serious" political topic, like war and peace, but the fact is that we spend most of our lives doing everyday things: at the dinner table, in the kitchen, washing dishes, grocery-shopping, commuting. These things make up the fabric of our lives.
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If I'm really jet-lagged and need to get to sleep, I just try and watch cartoons. As long as it's animated, I don't care - it has to have that distance from real life.
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I'm very fun; I like to have fun, and I don't like to take life too serious, so of course everybody saw me as the outgoing fun one and the crazy one.
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When ignorant people see someone who is dead, they are disgusted and horrified, even thought they too will be dead some day. I thought to myself: I don't want to be like the ignorant people. After then, I couldn't feel the usual intoxication with life anymore.
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There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.
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My pride and identity is wrapped up in my big trips. But I can't always be on one - I need to plan them and fund them, and I want some semblance of a normal life too.
