Alive Quotes
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I can go back to my very first movie, Thirteen, and think about that exact moment when I saw Nikki Reed and Evan Rachel Wood do their chemistry read audition together. It just came alive. I was filming it with a video camera and I was like, "I know I can make a good movie now."
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There are times in life when we feel so very alive that when they pass, we feel … diminished. When that happens, we’ll do almost anything to feel so alive again.
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Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.
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Humanism is not alive and well in Texas. Different colors and types of Texans do not like one another, nor do they pretend to.
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In London they don't like you if you're still alive.
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Still as death, and Andrés felt as if it were up to him to make noise so that his sister would know they were still alive.
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Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.
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Feeling a little bit alive is a lot better than just waiting to die.
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I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.
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Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are always thinking about it. You don't take your work home; your work never leaves home. It lives inside you. It resides and grows and comes alive in your mind.
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It's a secret and if you tell a secret the secret comes alive and can never be kept safe at home again.
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Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.
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We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.
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If you get to a certain age, all people want to know about you is people you knew. ...An American student once said to me, you know, isn't it extraordinary that I am alive and you're not dead.
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Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.
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There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they congealed into their final selves. It might be a very nice self, but you know you can expect no more surprises from it. Whereas, the other kind keep moving, changing... They are fluid. They keep moving forward and making new trysts with life, and the motion of it keeps them young. In my opinion, they are the only people who are still alive. You must be constantly on your guard against congealing.
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Life is the one thing you cannot get out of alive.
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It's a good time for black people to be alive.
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Life... It's a great and terrible and short and endless thing. None of us come out of it alive.
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Writing a funny story is one thing. But writing a funny story that inspires others to venture beyond their level of comfort in pursuit of their greater good is what makes me come alive.
