Life Quotes
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For me, what's wonderful for me at this stage of my life is that I get to work with people I've admired for a long time.
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Everybody works . . . . That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer.
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The idea of me writing something that I'd get to be in as well was not what I saw coming. I do think that life works that way. When you kind of let go of something and accept that it hasn't worked, it takes all the pressure off, and then you end up getting it.
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There are those, I think, who are attracted to the glitz of celebrity life. I am not one of them.
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I credit NTI, truthfully, with everything as far as where my head is and what my goals are and dreams are. I would say it was probably one of the most influential moments of my life, being there.
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Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours.
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...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.
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Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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Poetry cannot take sides except with life.
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Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.
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Dream big & have huge ambition, but never forget life is lived in small moments and sustained by simple acts of love.
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As soon as the theoretician attempts to take account of so-called 'utility' and 'reality' instead of absolute truth, his work will cease to be a polar star of seeking humanity and instead will become a prescription for everyday life.
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For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life - namely myself.
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Ever make mistakes in life? Let's make them birds. Yeah, they're birds now.
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Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
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In real life, being a new mom, I would like to be able to sleep. I'd like to snap my fingers and be asleep because I'm a little sleep-deprived, at the moment.
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I do feel that I myself wouldn't have had, in my life looking back, the courage to go out and say, 'I'm a good actress.' So I think I'm one of those people that needed to be seen by someone else to see myself.
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One of the reasons I wrote 'The Fall' is that climbing's more than a sport, it's a way of life. When you're in it, it's all you think about.
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It really has become the singular motivation in my life - to surrender to the art and to the free expression of what I may be experiencing in my life spiritually. It is really hard in the face of people who don't get it, but what do you do?
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There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.
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You get older. In the end, you end up accepting everything in your life - suffering, horror, love, loss, hate - all of it.
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I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me.
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For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. But there are also things — harmful attitudes, superstitions, emotions — that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
