- Growing Up
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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.
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- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.
- Meetings
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.
- Persistence
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
- Creatures
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ultimately, we're incredibly resilient creatures. People really do get on with the business of living.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imagine living in a state where businesses can legally refuse to serve people based on their sexual orientation. Where parents can force their children to undergo conversion therapy to 'cure' them of their 'homosexual tendencies.'
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up, we had a widow living next door to us. So the habit was that if we went to the grocery store, we called her first. If we cut our yard, we cut her yard, no questions asked.
- Choices
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a total floral hippie as a child so when I finally could make my own choices, I've been living in different black suit jackets and been really drawn to masculine clothes.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Air is traditionally 'thin,' but the more we learn about our atmosphere, the more substantial it becomes. In some places it is so filled with inorganic flotsam that it is almost thick enough to plough; in others, it has become so primed with the by-products of life that it comes close to being a living tissue in its own right.
- Credulity
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- Nov 07, 2020
If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living in Barcelona, I have my own little ghetto utopia. There are 3,000 ghost towns in Spain, and I've used the images of them a lot in my backdrops for my solo spoken-word stuff. The ghost towns could be from two buildings to 40 - things died out, or there were plagues, the roads don't lead there, whatever.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an athlete living in a very competitive environment there are always times when you are questioned. It's up to you to prove people wrong and I really enjoy that.
- Alive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt alive when I read a script and acted out a scene, or sang a song. It was my dream. I'm just very lucky that I'm still doing it and able to earn a living from it.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my acting, I have tried to do this - to present to audiences a living creature in whom they can recognise themselves or someone they know.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020