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Life Quotes
"Every minute you spend in your life is either spent bringing you closer to your goals or moving you away from your goals."
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"So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under."
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"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."
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"I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research."
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"As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more."
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"In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be."
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"This industry has been really good to me. It's been a great life. I'm not through yet. I'm ready when you are, Mr. DeMille."
Life,
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"I don't think I have ever worked in my life, because work to me means that you are really doing something that you don't like."
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"There are particular images that I like. Allegro is composed of a series of still life photographs that has been put to speed. There is so much care that has gone into the composition of the cinematography."
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"Obviously you don't want to be anonymous, but you don't want everyone to know your life."
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"I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years."
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"I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that."
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"Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life."
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"My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past."
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"To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live."
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"First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety."
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"It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it's been exciting and good and I'm thrilled to be an actress and a singer and to have spent my life this way."
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"There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting."
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"Never let your desire to have an accepting heart towards others keep you from your strong boundaries. The hurricane may come blasting at our door; yet it doesn't mean we have to invite it in for tea. Sometimes, it's important to recognize that the hurricane is a powerful and damaging storm, not a light spring shower."
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"Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author."
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"There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything."
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"The trunk of the car looked like a mobile police narcotics lab. We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers . . . and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls . . . Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon."
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"Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing."
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"Sasha snorted. "I have never in my extremely long life seen anyone take so long to answer a question. It's like you went into your brain and got lost. you need a bread crumb, buddy?" He made a noise like he was calling his pet. "Here Lassie, here. Come back girl."
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