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Living Quotes
"I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished."
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"Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing."
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"Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin."
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"Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world."
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"Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?"
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"Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century."
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"Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one."
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"You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity."
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"I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline."
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"At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant."
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"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
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"All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former."
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"Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent."
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"The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young."
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"Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?"
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"An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures."
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"We're living proof that nice guys always finish last."
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"I am very grateful to make my living doing what I would do for free."
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"Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living."
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"You actually can make it, no matter what. I truly am a firm believer in that. Eminem's living proof."
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"Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once."
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"A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted."
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"I don't know how you prepare for something like that. I cannot imagine living in a fishbowl like that. I don't live here so I don't know it will be that bad anyway because I live in Paris and we don't have that sort of phenomenon there. So I don't know, we'll see what happens."
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"You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by."
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"Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living."
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"The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing."
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"Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy."
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"If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience."
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"My parents not only did it for a living, but they were really good at it."
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"I also like flyfishing - maybe I would have figured a way to make a living out of that?"
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