Life Quotes
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Marvel heroes, at their core, are people who are damaged, are people that are trying to figure out who they are in life. And that doesn't matter whether or not they're X-Men characters or they're Matt Murdock or they're Tony Stark or they're Peter Parker... That's where it starts.
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I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business.
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We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation.
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I think that not being proactive is a good thing. I like life to unfold on its own.
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Do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know the side you are used to is better than the one to come?
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I learned to be on time because, otherwise, you could miss a major opportunity. Also, it's important to live a balanced life, stay healthy, and not waste your money on things like $8 lattes.
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You might say it was my return to the living that launched me as a singer. I was placed in an oxygen tent, and the doctors brought me back to life.
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When life gives you the opportunity to check off a thing on the bucket list, you have to check them.
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I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it's kinder not to. I'm deeply into my 50s now.
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Life is always at some turning point.
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I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.
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My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life.
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Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.
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Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result.
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I would need a book to describe Jamal Miles. He can do it all. We line him up in the slot. We bring him into the backfield. We hand the ball to him. We send him in motion and get him the ball. He throws the football. He might be the best athlete I've ever been around in my life.
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If I have an audience, I'd like to make music for my whole life. But it's not really up to me.
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I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's life.
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What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life.
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There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
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I thank God that I'm a product of my parents. That they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I'm grateful that I know where I come from.
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I would say to anyone starting out that if their priority in life is happiness, then don't be a musician.
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The thing that I always try and say to young people starting out is your peer group is really the most important influence on your life because you are going to rise and fall together.
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I really just wanted to be a writer, but people tell you, 'You should have a backup career,' so I thought, 'OK, I'll act.' That was the foolishness of my vision for my life - that my backup career would be completely undependable.
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Since my life has been wayward and impulsive, always a search for something that is not there, and then disillusionment, I believe I need all the excuses I can make.
