Life Quotes
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When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a book, I accumulate a lot of documentation. That background material is the most intimate part of my private life. It's a little embarrassing - like being seen in your underwear It's like the way magicians never tell others how they make a dove come out of a hat.
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I do find that I'm drawn to people in my life, romantically or not, that have something to teach me. I'm drawn to people who I feel like I can learn from. I'm not really drawn to toxic people - I don't find myself discovering that someone in my life is toxic very often. But there is some sense of being changed by each person that I think I'm drawn to.
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Life is not a solo act. It's a huge collaboration, and we all need to assemble around us the people who care about us and support us in times of strife.
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Living your life constructs your soul, not a few seconds of daily prayer.
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If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you've done and whoever you were and throw them away.
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Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.
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I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘OK, I’m looking back on my life. I want to minimise the number of regrets I have.’ And I knew that when I was 80, I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not going to regret trying to participate in this thing called the Internet that I thought was going to be a really big deal. I knew that if I failed, I wouldn’t regret that. But I knew the one thing I might regret is not ever having tried. I knew that that would haunt me every day.
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For most of my life, I’ve felt that there must be more to our existence than meets the eye. This is who I am, and you can’t expect me to be someone I’m not.
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I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.
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This is a very fickle business. It's really about how much you value the other things in your life. I still value too many other things more than I do fame.
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Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.
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All of us are busy. Life isn't slowing down, it's speeding up, and our Daytimers reflect the fact. Yet that is precisely why we need to take time to pray.
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Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
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I think about all of the freaking talent shows I've tried out for in my life, and I'm so glad I didn't make any of them.
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Knowledge is very important and one of the few things that accompanies us into the next life.
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To have an extraordinary quality of life you need two skills: the science of achievement (the ability to take anything you envision and make it real) and the art of fulfillment (this allows you to enjoy every moment of it.
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It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.
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As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.
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Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?
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But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.
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My parents’ biggest thing was that they just wanted me to graduate high school and go to college. They couldn’t fathom me acting for the rest of my life.
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In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol.
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There's no room in my life for religion. Religion is separation and segregation of God. How can you segregate the Almighty?
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Life is life, so try to enjoy it. You only have one life.
