- First Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Live Quotes
Different ways of living, side by side.
This collection uses "live" as its thread but covers unusually varied ground — from reflections on how long humanity might last, to observations about wealth and poverty coexisting closely in Mexico. For quotes on love and connection, see Love quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I pretty much live in my denim jacket. The best thing about this piece is that I can wear it for every season.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live in Surrey, but up until the age of eight I lived in London. And the way I heard about this 'Peter Pan' film was there was an open-call audition that I'd heard about, or read about, and I just thought, 'Oh, I'll go along for the fun.' Because I never dreamed in a million years I'd ever get it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think one of the things I enjoy about acting is the transformation, and part of that is certainly the physical transformation. If people are confused forever, wondering where they have seen me before, that feels like exactly where I want to live. It feels like something's working.
- Motherhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.
- Early Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in the world when we love it.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I might sound audacious, but the Mahatma has been a great inspiration. He had the conviction to live with his beliefs in the face of total disbelief.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on.
- Nov 07, 2020