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"Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me."
Ruby Wax
"Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me."
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"The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers."
Tim Bishop
"The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers."
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"The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born."
Sergio Aragones
"The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born."
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"I was never really a career woman. My life always came first."
Carrie Snodgress
"I was never really a career woman. My life always came first."
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"Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life."
Carl Andre
"Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life."
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"Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is."
Charles M. Schulz
"Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is."
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"It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living."
Richard Le Gallienne
"It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living."
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"You want to do something, you want to have the bravery to do something original. And there will always be people who are like, the classicists who are like, 'No, but it's got to have this.' In life, there are people like that attached to every single thing that there is. These are the same people that are like, still playing vinyl."
Peter Sarsgaard
"You want to do something, you want to have the bravery to do something original. And there will always be people who are like, the classicists who are like, 'No, but it's got to have this.' In life, there are people like that attached to every single thing that there is. These are the same people that are like, still playing vinyl."
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"I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school."
Kevin Richardson
"I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school."
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"There is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is saved."
Francis I
"There is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is saved."
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"Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love."
Ignatius Loyola
"Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love."
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"In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed."
Sid Caesar
"In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed."
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"The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird."
Julie Walters
"The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird."
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"They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!"
Nellie Bly
"They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!"
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"My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting."
Anthony Doerr
"My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting."
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"I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again."
Gloria Swanson
"I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again."
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"I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life."
John Milius
"I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life."
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"Life is so great every day. I am telling things every day."
Nina Hagen
"Life is so great every day. I am telling things every day."
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"When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that."
Duffy Daugherty
"When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that."
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"And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting."
Mark Ruffalo
"And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting."
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"Ironically, since Obama was elected, for the first time in my life I'm sometimes not proud of my country."
Ann Coulter
"Ironically, since Obama was elected, for the first time in my life I'm sometimes not proud of my country."
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"What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!"
Laurence Sterne
"What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!"
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"This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later."
Laura Schlessinger
"This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later."
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"I'm very grateful for the platform that I've had in my life to speak out about the things I care about."
Anne Heche
"I'm very grateful for the platform that I've had in my life to speak out about the things I care about."
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"The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive."
John Guare
"The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive."
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"Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter."
Eileen Caddy
"Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter."
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"Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things."
Frank Howard Clark
"Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things."
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"In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman."
George Andrew Olah
"In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman."
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"Teddy Roosevelt of course was a great outdoorsman all his life."
Gaylord Nelson
"Teddy Roosevelt of course was a great outdoorsman all his life."
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"When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life."
Wayne Newton
"When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life."
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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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"If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count."
Mariah Carey
"If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count."
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"I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera."
Ian Hamilton Finlay
"I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera."
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"For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull."
Ralph Nader
"For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull."
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"You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long."
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"I live a very real life."
Anastacia
"I live a very real life."
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"I'm not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I'm always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death stories."
Rose Tremain
"I'm not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I'm always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death stories."
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"Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us."
Matthew Simpson
"Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us."
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"You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from."
Zac Hanson
"You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from."
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"Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course."
John Hurt
"Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course."
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"From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside."
Tyra Banks
"From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside."
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"If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it."
Christopher Meloni
"If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it."
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"Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it."
Mary Ritter Beard
"Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it."
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"I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted."
Calvin Klein
"I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted."
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"Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life."
Thomas S. Monson
"Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life."
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"I'm in the moment. I'm always in the moment of life."
Jenifer Lewis
"I'm in the moment. I'm always in the moment of life."
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"It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives."
Tony Robbins
"It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives."
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"If you can find something you love, go for it everyday of your life, and it would be really good to you."
Jenifer Lewis
"If you can find something you love, go for it everyday of your life, and it would be really good to you."
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"Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life."
Muriel Spark
"Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life."
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"To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible."
Pierre Salinger
"To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible."
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