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Life Quotes


"Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles."


"Sensitive people feel so deeply they often have to retreat from the world, in order to dig beneath the layers of pain to find their faith and courage."


"An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life."


"The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life."


"Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life."


"Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay."


"Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don't have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit."


"I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography."


"Sarah is very strong. She's really intelligent and she's very physically capable. I like to put that into my own life as well."
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"I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan."


"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next."


"The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up."



"There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal."
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"Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it."


"There's people that figure if they hang out with you, all of a sudden they're going to be successes. I've had two or three stalkers in my life."


"I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there."


"Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite."
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"Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes."


"Ah, I hope to live to 87 and drink from the the goblet of life to the dregs."


"You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?"


"Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it."


"The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance."


"A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day."
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