- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living Quotes
On making a life, and making a living.
This set of living quotes includes a sharply critical political opinion, presented here strictly as the quote's own stated view about the administration it describes, alongside a separate observation about how thin the line has become between personal and professional life. Related reflections continue in our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I loved to play. Writing was a natural outtake of play. I realize now, having kids, that maybe that's unusual. Living out in the middle of nowhere, I entertained myself by writing.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many things to be lucky for. Lucky to be healthy, lucky to be, like, beautiful. Lucky to be living in America.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.
- Big Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
About two years into living in Toronto, my apartment burned to the ground. My husband and I ended up living in his grandparents' attic for a year and a half.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't ever think of myself as coming from a particular class because my father was working class but made his living as a newspaper foreign correspondent - someone of no fixed abode, as he used to say - who was as comfortable dining with the Mountbattens in India as he was having a pint with the boys. He was very gregarious.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even as a teenager, I felt that for whatever reason that we were living very close to the end of human history. And now at my age I believe that with almost an increasing certainty.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to stay out of the spotlight as much as humanly possible, because I think that when actors, whether or not they've chosen it or it has been thrust upon them, are living very public lives, it affects your ability to get lost in their performances.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020