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"I'd like to do voiceovers my whole life. I get to kind of create a character and go in and play."

"I'd like to do voiceovers my whole life. I get to kind of create a character and go in and play."

Will Friedle, American Actor

Life, Character, Play

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"There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him."

"There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him."

Antonin Artaud, French Dramatist

Life, Genius, People, Idea

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"I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy."

"I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy."

Ashley Tisdale, American Actress

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"In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves."

"In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves."

Marie Dressler, American Actress

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"The genuine artist is never "true to life." He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life."

"The genuine artist is never "true to life." He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life."

Wallace Stevens, American Poet

Life, Art, Actors, Artist

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"Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience."

"Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience."

Chuck Close, American Artist

Life, Experience, Time, Painting

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"Timing in life is everything."

"Timing in life is everything."

Leonard Maltin, American Critic

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"If my life had to be a song I would name it, 'Live every day like its your best day ever', because it pretty much is."

"If my life had to be a song I would name it, 'Live every day like its your best day ever', because it pretty much is."

Haley Reinhart, American Musician

Life, Day, Name, Pretty

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"So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal."

"So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal."

Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian Activist

Life, Country, Humanity

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"We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us."

"We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

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"We believe in the dignity of every life, the possibility of every mind, the divinity of every soul. This is our true North."

"We believe in the dignity of every life, the possibility of every mind, the divinity of every soul. This is our true North."

Elizabeth Dole, American Politician

Life, Soul, Possibility, Dignity

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"Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I."

"Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I."

Eydie Gorme, American Musician

Life, Thought, Ambition, Children

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"I don't like to make my life like a book."

"I don't like to make my life like a book."

Marc Newson, Australian Designer

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"I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by."

"I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by."

Beck, American Musician

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"I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land."

"I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land."

Chief Joseph, American Leader

Life, Father, Grave, Land

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"Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour?"

"Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour?"

Kristin Davis, American Actress

Life, Risk, Self, Want

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"I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either."

"I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

Life, Legal, Society, Man

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"You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses."

"You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses."

Elizabeth Moon, American Author

Life, People, Fantasy, Past

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"Control your life through insanity."

"Control your life through insanity."

Cliff Burton, American Musician

Life, Control, Insanity

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"There are two things in life that I really wanted to do: be an actress, and to be in skin care, and I've gotten to do both of them."

"There are two things in life that I really wanted to do: be an actress, and to be in skin care, and I've gotten to do both of them."

Victoria Principal, American Actress

Life, Care, Skin

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"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."

Anatole France, French Novelist

Life, Melancholy

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"I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons."

"I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons."

Joseph Barbera, American Cartoonist

Life, Dream, Cartoons

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"I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite."

"I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite."

Josh Lucas, American Actor

Life, Cliches, Hollywood

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"We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story."

"We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

Life, Idea, Sharing

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"I think movies are great and I have a great time making them but they're not what keeps you warm at night, or what's ultimately the most important thing in anyone's life journey."

"I think movies are great and I have a great time making them but they're not what keeps you warm at night, or what's ultimately the most important thing in anyone's life journey."

Reese Witherspoon, American Actress

Life, Movies, Time, Journey

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"No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life."

"No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life."

Mathew Brady, American Photographer

Life, Will, World

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"I have never felt at any point in my life, good or bad, any ill will ever from the man or woman on the street."

"I have never felt at any point in my life, good or bad, any ill will ever from the man or woman on the street."

Rob Lowe, American Actor

Life, Man, Will, Woman

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"A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up."

"A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up."

Albert Schweitzer, German Theologian

Life, Success, Man

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"In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time."

"In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time."

Christopher Fry, English Playwright

Life, Time, Existence, First

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"Going to Peru is, well, if you ever have an opportunity in your life to go there, you should do it because it is absolutely mind boggling."

"Going to Peru is, well, if you ever have an opportunity in your life to go there, you should do it because it is absolutely mind boggling."

Dean Stockwell, American Actor

Life, Opportunity, Mind

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"Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism."

"Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism."

Abe Fortas, American Judge

Life, Injury, Journalism

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"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?"

"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?"

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"I'm famous for being nicer to my fans than anyone on the face of the Earth because I figure a) They pay my salary, and b) It's probably like a big moment in your life to meet somebody so I would say, just come on up."

"I'm famous for being nicer to my fans than anyone on the face of the Earth because I figure a) They pay my salary, and b) It's probably like a big moment in your life to meet somebody so I would say, just come on up."

James Woods, American Actor

Life, Being, Earth, Famous

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"Be yourself, fill your life with good people, and don't get a big head. It can all be gone tomorrow."

"Be yourself, fill your life with good people, and don't get a big head. It can all be gone tomorrow."

Molly Sims, American Model

Life, People, Tomorrow

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"And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it."

"And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it."

Aaron McGruder, American Artist

Life, Love, People, Want

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"The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started."

"The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started."

Norman Cousins, American Editor

Life, Hope, Energy, Fact

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"But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise."

"But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise."

Wayne Kramer, American Musician

Life, Idea, Possibilities, Rest

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"Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make."

"Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make."

Lorna Luft, American Actress

Life, Force, Will

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"Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will."

"Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will."

Josiah Royce, American Philosopher

Life, Heart, Reality, Will

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"I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become."

"I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become."

Julia Roberts, American Actress

Life, Famous, Nothing

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"The biggest lessons I've learned in life have probably come from a bad situation, from an angry situation, even if I wasn't the one who was angry."

"The biggest lessons I've learned in life have probably come from a bad situation, from an angry situation, even if I wasn't the one who was angry."

Evan R. Wood, American Physician

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"I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting."

"I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting."

David McCallum, Scottish Actor

Life, Money, Acting, Famous

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"No no there wasn't any planned 14th season, we all saw the writing on the wall. The ratings had been going down and so fourth, that curve goes on every show and in everybody's life."

"No no there wasn't any planned 14th season, we all saw the writing on the wall. The ratings had been going down and so fourth, that curve goes on every show and in everybody's life."

Larry Hagman, American Actor

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"I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to."

"I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to."

Madeleine Peyroux, American Musician

Life, Time, Deep, Past

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"I find this life so interesting."

"I find this life so interesting."

Brittany Murphy, American Actress

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"I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on 'Lassie', I was comfortable around the dog, where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie."

"I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on 'Lassie', I was comfortable around the dog, where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie."

Will Estes, American Actor

Life, Dogs, Kids

13

"I meet a lot of young people in the Midwest, and I saw what a difference a show like In the Life can make to their lives in some of these small towns where, you know, there are probably two gay people in the whole damn town."

"I meet a lot of young people in the Midwest, and I saw what a difference a show like In the Life can make to their lives in some of these small towns where, you know, there are probably two gay people in the whole damn town."

Lesley Gore, American Musician

Life, People, Difference, Gay

13

"My first book was the book that changed my life."

"My first book was the book that changed my life."

Stephen Ambrose, American Historian

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"A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one."

"A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one."

Laurence Sterne, Irish Novelist

Life, Measure, Word

13

"Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities."

"Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities."

Bernard Berenson, American Historian

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