Life Quotes
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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So all of these things are going on that make you wake up and realize you are a mortal person. You can choose to cruise through your life, but if you do, you're going to open your eyes at some point, and it's gone.
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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
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'Hasn’t all this taught you anything?' Annette asked Gabriel Baines as they waited for the simulacrum’s return and report.'Like what?''That there is no perfect defense. There is no protection. Being alive means being exposed; it’s the nature of life to be hazardous-it’s the stuff of living.
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Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
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The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life.
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When I was seven months pregnant with my son, my mother and I took a trip to El Salvador, where she's from. Frequent visits with her to see my extended family have taught me how different life can be if you are born into poverty.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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It would be real nice to have some kind of bell or whistle attached to this film - it would give it a longer life. People seem to need that validation to go to a film these days.
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When a president makes life and death decisions, he should draw strength and wisdom from broad and deep experience with the reasons for and the risks of committing our children to our defense. For no matter how many others are involved in the decision, the president is a lonely man in a dark room when the casualty reports come in.
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Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.
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It is the life in literature that acts upon life.
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When you deal with Alan Ball, you're dealing with a person who is a genius in terms of how art imitates life.
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I'm very confident in my sexuality, and I really don't like talking about my romantic life in the press.
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I'm different than another person who wants to lay back and do nothing for rest of the life and talk nonsense on ESPN... I will not do that. I want to achieve something else.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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Be still, sad heart, and cease repining;Behind the clouds the sun is shining;Thy fate is the common fate of all,Into each life some rain must fall,Some days must be dark and dreary.
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As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.
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Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life.
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Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
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That record she did with Peter Gabriel saved my life. That record helped me get sober. So she played a big part in my actual downfall and kind of 'rebirth'' as it were. That record helped me so much. I never told her that, but it did.
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My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
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I have seen many teachers in real life, which come from the same background and morality and treat their profession like just another one rather than a noble profession.
