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- Nov 07, 2020
Life Quotes
Quotes on the meaning found in life.
Life quotes on this page range widely - from lifelong searches for spiritual meaning and questions about religious definitions of sin, to the more ordinary scene of people debating life's big problems over drinks. That range mirrors related pages like Life Status.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
The life of the professional writer - like that of any freelance, whether she be a plumber or a podiatrist - is predicated on willpower. Without it there simply wouldn't be any remuneration, period.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and the other supplies facts, and the British are traditionally empiricists so they/we have a resistance to theory and to theoreticians playing too prominent a role in public life.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play - their ability to deal with loss or victory, their ability to meld strategic thinking and brute force - can be taken as a small-scale model of how they, or others like them, might behave in life.
- Live Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.
- Nov 07, 2020
The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only proper suit-and-tie job I've had in my life was the two years in the late 1980s when I ran a small corporate publishing company. I even had a Ford Sierra!
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do have a fantasy life in which I can grout bathrooms - but not for a living.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
- Decade
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent close to a decade as an undercover officer in the CIA and have spent most of my adult life collecting intelligence and protecting sources and methods.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A career in film didn't seem like something I could attain. Whereas I grew up next to New York City, and I spent my life going into New York City seeing plays, and I was a theater actor in school. Acting on the stage felt really natural to me, and I liked it, and I wasn't terrible at it.
- Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life's unfair. You're going to have things happen to you.
- Nov 07, 2020
We talk to our players all the time, 'Just control what you can control.' It's no different in life.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel really blessed that I found what I love doing and was able to make it a living from such a young age. I realize that I'm really fortunate. I didn't train; I kind of got lucky. And I remember that every day. I think I have to remind myself of that to really, fully appreciate life now.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
The funny guy doesn't get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wants the brooding, dangerous guy you shouldn't have.
- Decisions
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- Nov 07, 2020