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Life Quotes


"Self-belief is not self-centred. We can only fight effectively for others if we already believe in ourselves."



"Alone, alone. I am alone " I ache. Yet for the first time, despite all the anguish and the reality problems, I'm here. I feel tranquil, whole, ADULT."


"I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun."


"If you're afraid to live your life in a glass bubble, how can you do what we do in this industry?"
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"The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before."


"It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert."
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"It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It is hard to desecrate a grove and change your mind. The very holy mountains are keeping mum. We doused the burning bush and cannot rekindle it; we are lighting matches in vain under every green tree."


"I am, of course, aware that the ultimate solution is the ownership and control of the means of life by the whole of the people; but we are not at that stage of development as yet."


"There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why."


"Sometimes you make choices in life, and sometimes choices make you."


"I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life."


"Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction."



"Here I am I am tired I am tired of running of having to carry my life like it was a basket of eggs."


"Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects."



"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor."


"In life there are perfect moments. You cannot plan them - the very act interferes with the laws of the universe - but you must be ready to recognise them when they come."


"My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life."


"Life is a stranger's sojourn a night at an inn."


"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."


"I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth."


"Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead."



"I try to make my life about service, and hope that one day we can all 'see' a little better because God is with everyone and everywhere."


"You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I try to live a really normal life. I definitely don't try to make it into any more craziness than it is."


"It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night."
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