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Life Quotes



"On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life."


"Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?"


"The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt."



"My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life."


"That was where my dream began to take hold, of not havin' to pick cotton and potatoes, and not havin' to be uncomfortable, too hot or too cold. That in itself had driven me to try to find some better way of life."


"Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body."


"When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that."



"Cher wanted to be an entertainer more than I've seen anybody want to be an entertainer in my life."


"Who knows what kind of life I might have had had I not been fortunate enough to have the parents I've had."


"You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life."



"The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt."


"I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice."


"I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like."


"Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations."


"A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again."
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"Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed."


"Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead."


"It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection."


"If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?"


"Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course."


"If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality."


"I never did allow anything to keep me from my kids. They're the most important part of my life."


"As hard as it is and as tired as I am, I force myself to get dinner at least once a week with my girlfriends, or have a sleepover. Otherwise my life is just work."



"Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life."


"It depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a spiritual dimension to life, is just impoverishing."


"The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion."


"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy."


"To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer."
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