My Life Quotes
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I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking.
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Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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Ever since it was announced that Ryan Murphy intended to produce 'The People v. O.J. Simpson,' I have been inundated with the question as to 'How do I feel about it?' All I can say is, for me, it was personally the most heartbreaking tragedy that altered my life forever.
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.
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I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.
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My first album was called 'Badlands,' and it's something that I think I'm most proud of having done in my life.
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You can ask anyone who knows me, I've never said a racist or prejudiced thing in my life.
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Beijing was a huge slap in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to realise that this is my life.
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I over-scrutinize anyone new entering my life.
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I've had an angel on my shoulder all my life.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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I've made mistakes. Like, bringing people to your level who don't deserve to be there. They're trying to bite off your so-called fame, make a name off of you. I think I did a lot of that - allowed people to be relevant in my life who really aren't relevant to me at all.
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.
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Sometimes you're trying your best and you still can't find a solution, but I try not to waste my life living in a dark place.
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The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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'Nothin' on You' changed my life: I finally feel that I reached the point where I wanna be at. At times I questioned whether it was worth the sacrifice, but now I see it was.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.
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'Make You Miss Me' is an important song to me. Having it go No. 1 as the fifth single off of my first record is the cherry on top of a chapter in my life I'll never forget.
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I'm a very ambitious person. I've been like this from a very young age. As early as 12 years old, I used to have panic attacks because I needed to know my life plan.
