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"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."
Suzanne Farrell
"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."
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"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?"
Cate Blanchett
"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?"
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"In real life, when emotions and sentiments are involved and the very continuity of life is at stake, there are no quantitative theories, linear programming, and applied mechanics available to solve those problems."
Girdhar Joshi
"In real life, when emotions and sentiments are involved and the very continuity of life is at stake, there are no quantitative theories, linear programming, and applied mechanics available to solve those problems."
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"A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen."
Jill Clayburgh
"A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen."
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"Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures."
Edwin Louis Cole
"Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures."
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"The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt."
Paul Lynde
"The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt."
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"I had an essence in my life that I was nothing."
Demi Moore
"I had an essence in my life that I was nothing."
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"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."
Thomas Kretschmann
"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."
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"When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe."
Clifford D. Simak
"When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe."
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"I've gone through a lot of stuff in my life."
Jon Voight
"I've gone through a lot of stuff in my life."
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"The sport of shooting is my life."
Michael Diamond
"The sport of shooting is my life."
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"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."
Buck Owens
"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."
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"It doesn't make your life stop being fun to be a Christian."
Victoria Jackson
"It doesn't make your life stop being fun to be a Christian."
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"Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it."
Ernie Banks
"Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it."
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"One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life."
Nana Mouskouri
"One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life."
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"Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body."
Malcolm Boyd
"Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body."
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"When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that."
Imogen Cunningham
"When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that."
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"That is why it's so fun to make movies... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life."
Meg Tilly
"That is why it's so fun to make movies... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life."
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"Cher wanted to be an entertainer more than I've seen anybody want to be an entertainer in my life."
Sonny Bono
"Cher wanted to be an entertainer more than I've seen anybody want to be an entertainer in my life."
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"Who knows what kind of life I might have had had I not been fortunate enough to have the parents I've had."
James MacArthur
"Who knows what kind of life I might have had had I not been fortunate enough to have the parents I've had."
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"I didn't like mundane life."
Jeanne Calment
"I didn't like mundane life."
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"Larry, I spent probably most of my professional life helping to build Enron Corporation. I don't think there was anyone that was as shocked by the - by the collapse of the company as I was."
Jeffrey Skilling
"Larry, I spent probably most of my professional life helping to build Enron Corporation. I don't think there was anyone that was as shocked by the - by the collapse of the company as I was."
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"You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life."
Grantland Rice
"You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life."
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"The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt."
John Mortimer
"The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt."
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"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."
Ezra Cornell
"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."
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"I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like."
Nellie Bly
"I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like."
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"It's very easy for me to laugh at myself and laugh at life."
Matthew Ashford
"It's very easy for me to laugh at myself and laugh at life."
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"Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations."
Alan Dundes
"Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations."
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"A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again."
Jean Renoir
"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."
Bill Vaughan
"Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed."
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"Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead."
Emanuel Swedenborg
"Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead."
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"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."
Maurice Wilkins
"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."
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"My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next."
Nora Ephron
"My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next."
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"If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?"
Arthur Ashe
"If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?"
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"Life is supposed to get tough."
Kelsey Grammer
"Life is supposed to get tough."
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"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."
John Drinkwater
"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."
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"This girl at 17 really led an army, this girl at 19 really burned at the stake by her own choice. And you sit there and you want to figure out why did she make these choices? How did she live such a life?"
Leelee Sobieski
"This girl at 17 really led an army, this girl at 19 really burned at the stake by her own choice. And you sit there and you want to figure out why did she make these choices? How did she live such a life?"
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"If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality."
Norman Cousins
"If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality."
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"I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible."
Julie Christie
"I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible."
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"I never did allow anything to keep me from my kids. They're the most important part of my life."
Willie Stargell
"I never did allow anything to keep me from my kids. They're the most important part of my life."
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"We know that if we can prevent kids from trying drugs in their teenage years, we dramatically reduce the likelihood that they will go on to have problems later in life."
John Walters
"We know that if we can prevent kids from trying drugs in their teenage years, we dramatically reduce the likelihood that they will go on to have problems later in life."
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"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."
Jennifer Lawrence
"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."
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"For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings."
Joan Miro
"For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings."
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"The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn."
David Russell
"The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn."
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"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."
Mary Kay Ash
"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."
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"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."
Douglas Hurd
"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."
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"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."
John Maynard Keynes
"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."
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"Keep your private life private. Be open to suggestions from different people. And just be nice. I have heard stories about people who are just plain rude to the press or fans."
Michelle Trachtenberg
"Keep your private life private. Be open to suggestions from different people. And just be nice. I have heard stories about people who are just plain rude to the press or fans."
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"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy."
Alfred North Whitehead
"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy."
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"To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer."
Gaston Bachelard
"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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