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"Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period."
Eric Braeden
"Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period."
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"I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter."
Camille Claudel
"I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter."
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"I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me."
Geezer Butler
"I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me."
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"Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough."
Dinah Shore
"Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough."
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"The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you."
Helena Bonham Carter
"The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you."
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"If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone."
Donny Osmond
"If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone."
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"In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then."
Arthur Bremer
"In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then."
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"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."
Marie Dressler
"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."
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"The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self."
Anatole Broyard
"The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self."
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"I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another."
Nancy Mitford
"I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another."
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"The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world."
Leonard Bernstein
"The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world."
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"The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile. It's hard to do that when you don't have any money."
Marc Wallice
"The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile. It's hard to do that when you don't have any money."
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"There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome."
Sherilyn Fenn
"There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome."
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"How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!"
Robert Browning
"How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!"
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"I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short."
Armistead Maupin
"I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short."
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"I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments."
Michael Landon
"I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments."
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"The result is a picture that represents so much of what I want and rarely get from a movie - a couple of hours filled with characters who are as exciting as the people I know in real life."
Gene Siskel
"The result is a picture that represents so much of what I want and rarely get from a movie - a couple of hours filled with characters who are as exciting as the people I know in real life."
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"By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life."
Thomas More
"By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life."
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"Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work."
Karl Jaspers
"Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work."
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"I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy."
Jonathan Frakes
"I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy."
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"While it is challenging working with a kid, because they're so of the moment all the time. My acting style is to try to take something from my life that the character can relate to and that I can relate the character to."
Kyra Sedgwick
"While it is challenging working with a kid, because they're so of the moment all the time. My acting style is to try to take something from my life that the character can relate to and that I can relate the character to."
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"If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions."
Catherine Drinker Bowen
"If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions."
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"It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things."
Paul Begala
"It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things."
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"I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing."
Alfonso Ribeiro
"I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing."
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"Playing the role of Christ was like being in a prison. It was the hardest part I've ever had to play in my life. I couldn't smoke or drink in public. I couldn't."
Max von Sydow
"Playing the role of Christ was like being in a prison. It was the hardest part I've ever had to play in my life. I couldn't smoke or drink in public. I couldn't."
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"A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life."
Kinky Friedman
"A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life."
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"You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself."
Jane Seymour
"You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself."
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"There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish and others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different."
Warren E. Burger
"There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish and others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different."
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"Training has been such a huge part of my life and career I hope to keep going with it."
David Prowse
"Training has been such a huge part of my life and career I hope to keep going with it."
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"Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality."
Alexis Carrel
"Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality."
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"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!"
Sylvia Kristel
"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!"
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"My point of reference is life, in everything that I do."
Howie Mandel
"My point of reference is life, in everything that I do."
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"In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke."
Lynda Barry
"In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke."
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"It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role."
Kyra Sedgwick
"It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role."
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"I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness."
Pedro Almodovar
"I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness."
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"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
Jean Paul
"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
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"It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time."
Simone de Beauvoir
"It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time."
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"But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines."
Joan Collins
"But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines."
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"Meeting Chet was a life changing moment for me."
Suzy Bogguss
"Meeting Chet was a life changing moment for me."
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"I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life."
Mandy Patinkin
"I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life."
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"I don't really think about dance except just before rehearsals start. I put it off. I don't live my life thinking about dance."
Paul Taylor
"I don't really think about dance except just before rehearsals start. I put it off. I don't live my life thinking about dance."
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"The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live."
Nicolas de Chamfort
"The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live."
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"Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us."
Boris Pasternak
"Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us."
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"The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life."
Ralph Ellison
"The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life."
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"Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us."
Learned Hand
"Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us."
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"The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself."
Emmet Fox
"The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself."
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"I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life."
Sting
"I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life."
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"My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring."
Prince William
"My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring."
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"I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself."
Larry Niven
"I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself."
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"People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas."
Omar Epps
"People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas."
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