Life Quotes
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Acting changed my life. I say God and then acting. Because becoming an actor, I've gained a new respect for humanity. And I believe that it's also helped me to grow as a person. It's been one of the biggest blessings and expressions that I could have ever been gifted with.
Tasha Smith
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Life can be less mysterious than we make it out to be when we try to think about how it would be on other planets. And if we remove the mystery of life, then I think it is a little bit easier for us to think about how we live, and how perhaps we're not as special as we always think we are.
Chris Adami
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For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.
Marjane Satrapi
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When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
A. S. Byatt
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'Life is the continuation of existence, yet no thing endures. We are all patterns, seeking to propagate. Patterns which bring other patterns into being, then vanish, as if we’ve never been.'
David Brin
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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
Samuel Butler
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The type of leukemia that I am dealing with is treatable. So if I do what my doctors tell me to do - get my blood checked regularly, take my meds and consult with my doctor and follow any additional instructions he might make - I will be able to maintain my good health and live my life with a minimum of disruptions to my lifestyle.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Our family life was certainly not intellectual.
Douglass North
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Walking on thin ice, I'm paying the price. I'm throwing the dice in the air. Why must we learn it the hard way And play the game of life with your heart?
Yoko Ono
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I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did, and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date.
Philip Roth
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I am a private guy, and at the end of the day, I only really do care about my family. That's the most important thing: my way of life, my family. Whoever is in front of that is going to get hurt.
Brock Lesnar
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When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a stunning actress. She came out of her shell. She was herself again: this very independent, funny, intellectual lady - and was able to perform again, which was her life before meeting my father squashed it out.
Jane Birkin
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The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.
Randall Terry
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No use to fall down on my knees and beg for mercy's sake. Nothing I counted mine, out of my life, is mine to take...
Anna Akhmatova
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Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His mouth and began to tell a story.
N.D. Wilson
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My life is exactly the way it needs to be.
Octavia Spencer
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Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.
Naguib Mahfouz
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I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hearing a voice', or, 'The characters came to life'. I am filled with loathing for my own characters when I hear that because they do nothing of the sort. Left to their own devices, they do nothing but drink coffee and complain about their lives.
Karen Joy Fowler
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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.
Freeman Dyson
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I wanted to star in a western opposite Robert Redford. That was my plan for my life.
Dyan Cannon
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I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.
Jackie Walorski
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I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.
Julia Roberts
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I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.
Robert Smith The Cure