- Dreams
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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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- American Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been living the American Dream for over 25 years - just being able to do what I do, be creative, and make money out of it. It's incredible.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most simply, 'present shock' is the human response to living in a world that's always on real time and simultaneous. You know, in some ways it's the impact of living in a digital environment, and in other ways it's just really what happens when you stop leaning so forward to the millennium and you finally arrive there.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sort of half-Chilean at this point anyway, half-Argentine. This is where I have been living and working for a long time now.
- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
National parks are the best expression of social equity that there is. It's like paying our rent for living on the planet.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To Armstrong, constantly speaking about 'Apollo 11' only diminished the magic. That's why he worked overtime to avoid notice, living a quiet life in Indian Hill, Ohio.
- Nov 07, 2020
Life is wasted on the living.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're living in a tremendously new landscape, and the possibility of what can be created is immense. These tools of the moving image have a relatively short history in art, and what we can do with them is still largely unknown. We are still innovating and finding ways to tell stories.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first two years in the CFL, all I thought of was getting back to the NFL - it was like 'I'll put my time in up here and go back.' Then I went and signed a nice contract in Calgary and was like, 'Hey, I can make a living up here, this is great football, and I'm having a blast.'
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was hard to turn down the money since I didn't have a job, but I didn't want to exploit my notoriety because I knew the way I'd been living was wrong.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020