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Life Quotes


"One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life."


"Everything that occurs to us in life is a resource, an experience that we can learn from and grow from."


"Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts."


"To thee, to thee, my fire! Thou hast been burning in my heart all these futile years. If my life were a piece of gold it would come out of its trial brighter, but it is a trodden turf of grass, and nothing remains of it but this handful of ashes."


"I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've got lots of material to work with as an actor."



"The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character."


"Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence."


"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole."



"Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies."


"I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled."


"With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life."


"The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary."


"Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living."


"What basically happens is your hormones get out of whack. Because of the stress in your life your body says, 'I need more hormones.' So, your hormones are trying to produce and produce and produce, and it's even more stressful and it is this wicked cycle."


"Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?"


"Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference."


"What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?"


"I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake."


"By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves."


"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."


"It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life."



"I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it."


"Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality."



"Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!"


"One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed."


"Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life."
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