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"My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life."
Nora Roberts
"My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life."
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"At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming."
Nicholas Lea
"At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming."
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"Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life."
Andrew Greeley
"Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life."
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"Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that."
Charlotte Gainsbourg
"Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that."
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"The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states."
Lester B. Pearson
"The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states."
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"Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades."
Michael Patrick Jann
"Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades."
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"I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory."
Muddy Waters
"I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory."
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"An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet."
James Dean
"An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet."
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"There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for."
Saul Bellow
"There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for."
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"I've never seen one Star Trek in my whole life."
Izabella Scorupco
"I've never seen one Star Trek in my whole life."
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"I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance."
bell hooks
"I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance."
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"Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life."
Alec Guinness
"Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life."
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"I play, in real life, Kim, who is actually Marshall Mathers ex-wife as of now. She lies and says she is pregnant because she really wants to keep him and he figures her out."
Taryn Manning
"I play, in real life, Kim, who is actually Marshall Mathers ex-wife as of now. She lies and says she is pregnant because she really wants to keep him and he figures her out."
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"But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair."
Anthony Caro
"But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair."
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"Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development."
Lewis Mumford
"Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development."
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"I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent."
Charles Evers
"I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent."
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"I stagnated in prison a long time, and I have wasted most of my life."
Gary Gilmore
"I stagnated in prison a long time, and I have wasted most of my life."
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"John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then."
Carter Burwell
"John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then."
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"Seventy percent of success in life is showing up."
Woody Allen
"Seventy percent of success in life is showing up."
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"Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?"
Jack LaLanne
"Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?"
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"I brought this case because I am an atheist and this offends me, and I have the right to bring up my daughter without God being imposed into her life by her schoolteachers."
Michael Newdow
"I brought this case because I am an atheist and this offends me, and I have the right to bring up my daughter without God being imposed into her life by her schoolteachers."
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"Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things."
Frank Howard Clark
"Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things."
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"These few dollars you lose here today are going to buy you stories to tell your children and great-grandchildren. This could be one of the big moments in your life; don't make it your last!"
John Dillinger
"These few dollars you lose here today are going to buy you stories to tell your children and great-grandchildren. This could be one of the big moments in your life; don't make it your last!"
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"I am a Democrat. I have been one all of my life."
Jane Byrne
"I am a Democrat. I have been one all of my life."
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"Teddy Roosevelt of course was a great outdoorsman all his life."
Gaylord Nelson
"Teddy Roosevelt of course was a great outdoorsman all his life."
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"The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation."
Corrie Ten Boom
"The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation."
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"Why was I feeling this way? Why was everything so bad in my life? I had no answers to these questions."
Susan Smith
"Why was I feeling this way? Why was everything so bad in my life? I had no answers to these questions."
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"One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation."
Walter Scott
"One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation."
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"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently."
Agnes de Mille
"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently."
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"I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life."
Peter Gallagher
"I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life."
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"In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning."
Henrietta Szold
"In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning."
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"I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera."
Ian Hamilton Finlay
"I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera."
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"'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life."
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"You can stay in therapy your whole life, but you've got to live life and not talk about life."
Tracey Gold
"You can stay in therapy your whole life, but you've got to live life and not talk about life."
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"I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do."
Tracey Ullman
"I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do."
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"I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian."
Maria Mitchell
"I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian."
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"Boyfriends have to understand me and my needs. They have to know what I want out of my life and about my strict regime. I go to bed at 10pm and not later. I separate my professional and private lives."
Anna Kournikova
"Boyfriends have to understand me and my needs. They have to know what I want out of my life and about my strict regime. I go to bed at 10pm and not later. I separate my professional and private lives."
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"Who can worry about a career? Have a life."
Frances McDormand
"Who can worry about a career? Have a life."
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"I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven."
Jamie Lee Curtis
"I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven."
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"One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities."
Thomas Carlyle
"One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities."
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"Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people."
Joe Frazier
"Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people."
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"If I die tomorrow, I've accomplished everything I wanted to do in life."
Don Johnson
"If I die tomorrow, I've accomplished everything I wanted to do in life."
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"Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life."
Edward Zwick
"Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life."
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"I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping."
Lorna Luft
"I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping."
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"In addressing you I feel that I am not so much speaking to the representatives of diverse States of Europe and America as to the exponents of principles and hopes that are common to us all, and without which our life on earth would be a life without horizon or prospect."
Henry Campbell Bannerman
"In addressing you I feel that I am not so much speaking to the representatives of diverse States of Europe and America as to the exponents of principles and hopes that are common to us all, and without which our life on earth would be a life without horizon or prospect."
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"Look at life with the eyes of a child."
Kathe Kollwitz
"Look at life with the eyes of a child."
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"Life is like an analogy."
Aaron Allston
"Life is like an analogy."
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"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."
Richard L. Evans
"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."
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"Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience."
Michael Eisner
"Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience."
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"Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great."
Edward Hopper
"Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great."
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