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Life Quotes
"I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately."
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"Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed."
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"To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity."
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"Each song has its own secret that's different from another song, and each has its own life. Sometimes it has to be teased out, whereas other times it might come fast. There are no laws about songwriting or producing. It depends on what you're doing, not just who you're doing."
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"I've only been in one fight in my whole life... in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I'm a maniac."
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"Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it."
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"When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever."
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"How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?"
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"Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them."
Life,
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"Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone."
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"The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come."
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"Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it."
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"We believe that government works for the benefit of private life, and not the other way around."
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"A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day."
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"I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now."
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"I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision."
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"Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor."
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"Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that."
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"My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver."
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