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"I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings."
Anne Stevenson
"I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings."
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"Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life."
Carl Sandburg
"Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life."
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"Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations."
Deborah Tannen
"Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations."
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"But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life."
Placido Domingo
"But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life."
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"I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me."
Sting
"I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me."
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"The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent."
"The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent."
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"I've spent so much time the last seven, eight years in Los Angeles, away from my family, away from my friends, away from the city that is my favourite place to be and I just want to come here and have a proper life."
Nicholas Lea
"I've spent so much time the last seven, eight years in Los Angeles, away from my family, away from my friends, away from the city that is my favourite place to be and I just want to come here and have a proper life."
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"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped."
Cesare Pavese
"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped."
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"I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days."
Bob Schieffer
"I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days."
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"Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse."
Joseph Brodsky
"Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse."
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"Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues."
Phillips Brooks
"Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues."
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"Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life."
Giorgio de Chirico
"Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life."
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"Every now and then you think about your life, what you would like to be, you start at Number 1 and you go down to 100. And down at the bottom, 100, was - Stage. Go figure. That would be the last thing. It terrified me, man. But I had to do it."
Alan Vega
"Every now and then you think about your life, what you would like to be, you start at Number 1 and you go down to 100. And down at the bottom, 100, was - Stage. Go figure. That would be the last thing. It terrified me, man. But I had to do it."
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"I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye."
Amy Grant
"I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye."
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"My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about."
Maureen Forrester
"My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about."
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"We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal."
Anatole France
"We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal."
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"A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen."
Matt Groening
"A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen."
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"What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?"
Moshe Sharett
"What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?"
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"I've never done Botox in my life. But I've probably tried everything else under the sun."
Ryan Seacrest
"I've never done Botox in my life. But I've probably tried everything else under the sun."
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"Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions."
Andre Breton
"Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions."
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"You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens."
Tanya Tucker
"You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens."
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"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked."
Viktor E. Frankl
"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked."
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"I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing."
Carlos Santana
"I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing."
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"The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit."
Ansel Adams
"The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit."
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"I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living."
Robert Henri
"I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living."
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"The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs."
John Grierson
"The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs."
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"The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests."
Gail Sheehy
"The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests."
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"By exercise. I'll tell you one thing, you don't always have to be on the go. I sit around a lot, I read a lot, and I do watch television. But I also work out for two hours every day of my life, even when I'm on the road."
Jack LaLanne
"By exercise. I'll tell you one thing, you don't always have to be on the go. I sit around a lot, I read a lot, and I do watch television. But I also work out for two hours every day of my life, even when I'm on the road."
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"Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented."
Mark Strand
"Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented."
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"Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck."
Thomas Perry
"Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck."
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"Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life."
Celia Cruz
"Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life."
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"They'll probably start working on my movie sometime... They are doing a complete movie of my life story. It will not be based on any negativity. It will be more about my life, from a kid, how I came up and why I came through."
Ike Turner
"They'll probably start working on my movie sometime... They are doing a complete movie of my life story. It will not be based on any negativity. It will be more about my life, from a kid, how I came up and why I came through."
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"I've had the same breasts for my entire adult life."
Sharon Stone
"I've had the same breasts for my entire adult life."
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"There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life."
Marlon Brando
"There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life."
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"Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life."
Quentin Tarantino
"Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life."
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"I like when my man is worldly, knows the finer things in life, is well traveled, educated. It's important to me that he's able to talk to all types of people, from doctors to dishwashers."
Kiana Tom
"I like when my man is worldly, knows the finer things in life, is well traveled, educated. It's important to me that he's able to talk to all types of people, from doctors to dishwashers."
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"I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit."
Harrison Ford
"I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit."
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"Don't go to the grave with life unused."
Bobby Bowden
"Don't go to the grave with life unused."
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"Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life."
Carolyn Wells
"Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life."
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"Life is God's novel. Let him write it."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Life is God's novel. Let him write it."
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"Design is a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life."
Geoffrey Beene
"Design is a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life."
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"I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable."
Robert Downey, Jr.
"I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable."
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"I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress."
Dan Brown
"I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress."
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"It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play."
Dizzy Gillespie
"It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play."
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"Life is best when you are in love."
Michael Moriarty
"Life is best when you are in love."
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"The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions."
William O. Douglas
"The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions."
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"I've never, ever in my life enjoyed playing live the way I am now."
Richard Marx
"I've never, ever in my life enjoyed playing live the way I am now."
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"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Henry James
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
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"Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world."
Edward Hopper
"Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world."
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"What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction."
Guy Ritchie
"What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction."
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