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Life Quotes
"You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you."
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"You will be able to live as your authentic self when you find that infinite source of energy and that mind, bright and shining like the sun. Then you won't need to become anyone other than yourself. You won't need to depend on externals for your health and happiness, and you won't need to look outside yourself to find passion and hope for life."
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"Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life."
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"Sometimes it's best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee."
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"When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do."
Life,
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"The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs."
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"Your own life starts the moment you're born. Before that, even.""I just, I feel like as long as I live with you, I won't... I'm not... It's like George Jefferson.""From the TV show?""Right. George Jefferson. As long as he was on 'All in the Family', he was just somebody who made Archie Bunker's story more interesting. He didn't have anything of his own. He didn't have a plot or supporting characters. I don't know if you ever even got to see his house. But after he got his own show, George had his own living room and kitchen... and bedroom, I think. He even had his own elevator. Places for him to exist in, for his story to happen. Like this apartment. This is something that's mine."
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"Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn."
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"I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life."
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"People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal."
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"Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier."
Life,
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"When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it."
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"Death is just the last scene of the last act."
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"You can spend a lifetime trying to erase memories. It doesn't change the fact that they took place. Acceptance is the key."
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"None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life."
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"If you have the opportunity to do amazing things in your life, I strongly encourage you to invite someone to join you."
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"The last year of her college career was wheeling slowly round. She could see ahead her examination and her departure. She had the ash of disillusion gritting under her teeth. Would the next move turn out the same? Always the shining doorway ahead; and then, upon approach, always the shining doorway was a gate into another ugly yard, dirty and active and dead. Always the crest of the hill gleaming ahead under heaven: and then, from the top of the hill only another sordid valley full of amorphous, squalid activity."
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"Life is a balance. We tend to forget that as we go blithely from day to day. We eat and drink and sleep and assume we will always rise up the next day, that meals and rest will always replenish us. Injuries we expect to heal, and pain to lessen as time goes by. Even when we are faced with wounds that heal more slowly, with pain that lessens by day only to return in full force at nightfall, even when sleep does not leave us rested, we still expect that somehow tomorrow will all come back into balance and that we will go on. At some point, the exquisite balance has tipped, and despite all our flailing efforts, we begin the slow fall from the body that maintains itself to the body that struggles, nails clawing, to cling to what it used to be."
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"The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre."
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"To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life."
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"The desert was a school, a school where each day, each hour, a final examination was offered, where failure meant death and the buzzards landed to correct the papers."
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"You can't change the past. It's already done. Looking back only keeps you there."
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"There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters."
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"Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again. ...Scarlett, always save something to fear- even as you save something to love..."
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"You can't enjoy life if you're not nourishing your body."
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"I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.'"
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"If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second."
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"Shit," Drake rubbed a hand over his face. Shit, shit, shit..."Shit," Drake said again...."That about sums it up," Gabriel muttered."
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"The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you."
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"I like paths that lead to no certain end, that keep me wondering where I am."
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"We strive toward the middle, and we run from ourselves."
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