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"I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life."
Toru Takemitsu
"I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life."
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"I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life."
Antonia Fraser
"I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life."
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"When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life."
Richard Lewis
"When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life."
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"My whole life, I've been telling jokes."
Brad Garrett
"My whole life, I've been telling jokes."
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"I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers."
Wallis Simpson
"I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers."
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"For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life."
Steve Guttenberg
"For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life."
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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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"The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life."
Helen Hayes
"The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life."
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"What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life."
Debi Thomas
"What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life."
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"Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring."
Shelley Duvall
"Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring."
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"What good will a tax break do me if I'm crippled for life?"
Alan Ladd
"What good will a tax break do me if I'm crippled for life?"
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"And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life."
Anthony Quinn
"And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life."
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"I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life."
Marlo Thomas
"I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life."
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"People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world."
Birch Bayh
"People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world."
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"You don't have to fight for your life anymore. You're starting a new one."
Eric Brown
"You don't have to fight for your life anymore. You're starting a new one."
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"Fiction is life with the dull bits left out."
Clive James
"Fiction is life with the dull bits left out."
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"My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down."
David Puttnam
"My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down."
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"I don't think you should do things in your personal life differently because you're a role model."
Shannen Doherty
"I don't think you should do things in your personal life differently because you're a role model."
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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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"In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them."
Colleen Atwood
"In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them."
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"I've been sacrificing my life for my work for 30 years, and now I want it the other way around. I want to find work that fits into my life and that would be based here."
Glenn Close
"I've been sacrificing my life for my work for 30 years, and now I want it the other way around. I want to find work that fits into my life and that would be based here."
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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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"The way that I live my life is on spontaneity."
Melanie Brown
"The way that I live my life is on spontaneity."
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"I'm fairly in control and I don't like to flirt particularly. I mean, obviously if I meet someone who I think is hot, of course I'll want to flirt with him, But in general I don't use it in day-to-day life."
Shirley Manson
"I'm fairly in control and I don't like to flirt particularly. I mean, obviously if I meet someone who I think is hot, of course I'll want to flirt with him, But in general I don't use it in day-to-day life."
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"Security has no place in the life of an actress."
Claire Bloom
"Security has no place in the life of an actress."
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"Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life."
Jean Paul
"Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life."
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"The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple."
Freeman Dyson
"The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple."
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"Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul."
Geoffrey Fisher
"Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul."
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"Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that."
Bo Jackson
"Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that."
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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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"We must make working life more human."
Goran Persson
"We must make working life more human."
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"The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life."
Kirsten Dunst
"The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life."
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"Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television."
Andy Warhol
"Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television."
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"But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!"
Anna Neagle
"But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!"
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"In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman."
Leon Kass
"In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman."
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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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"I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics."
Laura Bush
"I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics."
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"It's always been really important for me to try to maintain a balanced life, professional and personal, and this was absolutely something that my husband and I had hoped for."
Debra Messing
"It's always been really important for me to try to maintain a balanced life, professional and personal, and this was absolutely something that my husband and I had hoped for."
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"Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers."
Laurence Housman
"Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers."
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"If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption.' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't."
Margaret Mitchell
"If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption.' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't."
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"I'm in this for the long haul. I've been making music my whole life."
Lenny Kravitz
"I'm in this for the long haul. I've been making music my whole life."
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"I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to me and I may take it from that."
Desmond Dekker
"I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to me and I may take it from that."
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"Mondays are the potholes in the road of life."
Tom Wilson
"Mondays are the potholes in the road of life."
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"It was the worst moment of my life. The producer came up and talked me back into going on stage."
Paul Lynde
"It was the worst moment of my life. The producer came up and talked me back into going on stage."
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"I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be."
Nigella Lawson
"I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be."
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"The good life is one that's artistically made."
William Shatner
"The good life is one that's artistically made."
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"Life is to be enjoyed, not endured."
Gordon B. Hinckley
"Life is to be enjoyed, not endured."
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"It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it."
Donatella Versace
"It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it."
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"Back 20 years ago, I was recording with Bruce Springsteen, and his producer called me and said I had to be in the studio the next day to finish the sessions, and I couldn't. I had to be in court, in California. All this took like 10 years out of my life."
Ronnie Spector
"Back 20 years ago, I was recording with Bruce Springsteen, and his producer called me and said I had to be in the studio the next day to finish the sessions, and I couldn't. I had to be in court, in California. All this took like 10 years out of my life."
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"I feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean's life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to."
Rowan Atkinson
"I feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean's life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to."
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