Life Quotes
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Some readers may be disturbed that I wrote 'The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson' in Emily's own voice. I wasn't trying to steal her thunder or her music. I simply wanted to imagine my way into the head and heart of Emily Dickinson.
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Every day I learn something new, and, you know, you go through life's experiences, and if you can bring every experience at some point somewhere in every drama or every story that you have to portray, you will come across an emotion or a feeling you have had some point in your life.
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I probably only cried five or six times in my life and I think four of those times was from my daddy kicking my butt.
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Becoming a parent has just completely changed me, and made life so beautiful and given me such a center and a focus and such joy.
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I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
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You do not quite get what I mean. Herr Frankenstein was interested only in human life. First to destroy it, then recreate it. There you have his mad dream.
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There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder.
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There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.
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Life is fragile, handle with prayer.
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Eternal life should be sought elsewhere, perhaps in the religious community, not politics.
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At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.
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Central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact, regardless of whether we kiss or we wound.
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I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
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It's very easy to make certain decisions that affect your life that you have no perspective on.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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Just as Cardinal Bernardin proposed that an of ethic of life be consistently applied to unite all the life issues, we need in our day to mine the church's social teaching on solidarity.
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A child in India grows up with the idea that you have to make choices that will create a better future. In fact, your whole life is a continuum of choices, so the more conscious you are, the greater your life will be.
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At her station in life, wisdom dictated keeping a low profile.And yet...
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My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.
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I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.
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My whole life is a theater piece.
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I think about how best to live my grandmother's twin mantras that 'Life is not a dress rehearsal' and 'Life is not about what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you.'
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My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.
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Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
