Life Quotes
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I think the key is that nothing's ever perfect and you've got to be able to go with change. It's a lot easier said then done because I especially like things very structured and I don't like change, but it's part of life; you've got to just deal with it.
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Ideas for stories come to me based on my life, so who knows? If somebody sends me to become an astronaut, that's what I'll end up writing.
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A child is your legacy. What better thing can you do in life than put a really good person in the world who's going to make it a better place?
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I'm just trying to normalize my life and get ready for the last 20 years or whatever I've got. It's a lot to take care of.
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I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.
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I was doing that [a collaboration with Kurt Cobain] to try to save his life. The collaboration was me calling up as an excuse to reach out to this guy. He was in a really bad place.
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The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life.
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One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.
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I've lived so much life as a young man. New Orleans, we got terms, and one's like, 'He jumped off the porch early.' That's kind of what happened to me. I had to grow up really quick.
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Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.
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When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?
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My parents lived a modest life, and their main concern was the education of their children. My father was a self-taught man but had a great intellectual curiosity, not only for biblical and talmudic texts, but also for philosophy, psychoanalysis and history.
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Life is but a dream for the dead.
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I live my life with positivity, so even if there was a low, I'd find a positive in the situation. It's how I am with everything in life. With acting, I don't love the celebrity side of it and the tabloids, but at the end of the day, I love what I do so much, it overrides all that.
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I have lived most of my life in small towns, and I'm in the habit of knowing and talking to everyone.
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I've played a lot of villains. The villains are always fun because you can just go fractionally bigger than life. It's always a grey area because you don't want to end up mustache-twirling and making them a little false, but you always get to play a little more, whereas the lead guy has to be a little more straight.
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My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name.
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Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it.
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'True Blood' was the most amazing adventure of my life; I met some of my best friends.
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Grammy nominations are certainly pleasant, but you can forget about them and lead a perfectly happy life - provided you have the approval of the musicians you work with.
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On the surface, I've created a good life. I've lived the American dream. But I am still an undocumented immigrant.
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I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical in Nature this is what I am looking for. It is absolutely necessary for me to find it somewhere.
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It didn't really change me a lot, but I saw people's egos get so big…I think it better to live out your life being normal, I did have the experience, and could see how cruel the music business could be…but I knew how I wanted to be and what my parents thought of me.
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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
