Life Quotes
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I've never been in an acting class in my life.
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I create with my heart, so life and work inevitably intersect all too often.
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I'm not complaining about my life; every moment of it has been fantastic, and I'm so lucky.
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A lot of people say I've missed out on a lot because I started acting at such a young age. What's so obvious to me is that I actually was really lucky. I gained a lot and I got a head start in what I wanted to do in life. A lot of people in their late 20s, early 30s are just beginning to figure out where they want to go.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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I plan to talk to a lot of people and structure my life in a way that might have a bit more flexibility and a lot more fun factor, ... I don't intend to rush (into a job). I have the luxury of time.
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Life is difficult for everyone; everyone has bad days. Everyone has trouble in their life, because it doesn't matter how rich you are: Sickness and trouble and worry and love, these things will mess with you at every level of life.
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'Extract' was kind of a grown up 'Office Space' in the sense of talking about the ennui of being a successful person in America if you don't have some real passion in your life for something to care about.
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When someone dies, you don't get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware that no person is ever truly lost or gone once they have been in our life and loved us, as we have loved them.
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I have to say that one person I learned from the most as an actor in my life is Emmy Rossum. She is so insanely talented in the sense that when watching her work, it just turns into watching her speak - it's no longer acting; that's how good she is! She just becomes the person.
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Precious, she gets hit by life so many different ways and so many times, but she doesn't yield to it. She continues to get up and she continues to struggle for a better life.
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Necessity creates everything in my life.
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Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.
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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.
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Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the notion of redemption. The bad people don't always pay.
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When I started out in life I wanted to teach.
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I probably lived more of a rock-star life when I was 15. I got in trouble a fair amount. I cared more about hanging out and skipping school than studying.
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Life is a compromise between fate and free will.
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Life isn't long enough for love and art.
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My wife has been incredibly supportive of me as a writer. Trying really hard to make sure I get the space and time I need to work as a writer and being willing to make some of the sacrifices that you have to make to live the life of an artist.
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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?
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It might come off as cocky, but I've been through a lot in my life.
