Life Quotes
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I've fallen out very badly with some of the subjects I've interviewed, because they see their lives a certain way; to step into a cinema and see your life depicted in another way can come as a terrible shock.
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Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life.
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Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing.
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I've had a family my entire adult life; I started raising kids when I was 21. I suspect that being part of a family has probably informed my life as a writer as much as anything else has.
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As the savages whom we have instructed are ready when left to themselves to return to their ancestral mode of life, so our young people quickly forget what they have learned at school, and sink back into the commonplace existence from which a right education would have saved them.
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Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.
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I love the village in my computer. There's little validation in the day-to-day life of a writer; sometimes we ache for a connection.
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With This Ring I give my all to you Now and my whole life through With this ring
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The opportunity is not in being momentarily popular with the anonymous masses. It's in being missed when you're gone, in doing work that matters to the tribe you choose.
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Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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To have three movies coming out at the same time - I probably will never have that again in my life.
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There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.
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I think fiction is important because it has the power to transport a reader into another life.
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I've gotten my personal life all the way intact and made sure that it's straight. Without that, you have no foundation. Your building is going to crumble.
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I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death; and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life.
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You get out of life what you put into it ... simple
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Now he was far from bored but feeling many of the same stresses that had caused him to retire from active duty in the first place. Was it possible to find a station in life with just the right level of interest? Was it possible to be normal without being someone’s dupe?
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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.
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Life is what the least of us make the most of us feel the least of us make the most of.
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Life itself is the proper binge.
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There is dissatisfaction in all of us. Some of us take out that dissatisfaction by attempting to ruin whatever you are attempting to do. This is a fact of life.
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I hope someday you see this is all life wants: for you to be your own kind of beautiful & not the kind that makes you forget who you are.
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I feel like the albums I grew up listening to - for example, Eminem, Lauryn Hill, Christina Aguilera - they all spoke about real stuff that was happening in their life and everyone else's life.
