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- Nov 07, 2020
My Life Quotes
First-person, unfiltered reflection.
This page is built from first-person quotes about "my life" — a long personal search for meaning, and the deliberate work of clearing out stress and unwanted obligations. For identity-focused sayings, see I Am quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower'... It was a book I read when I was younger, and it just changed my life, and I just wanted to be a part of it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've begun to realize, as I'm getting older, that I was taught to go for a certain kind of stillness to get things done. I missed that in my life. I loved my grandmother's property, out in South Georgia right above the Florida line, so I just thought I'd find some property where I could feel that again.
- Nov 07, 2020
As a southern woman, we often define ourselves by who we are with. But I wanted my life to be built differently.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a teenager I would look in the mirror and wish I could wash away my syndrome. I hated it because it caused so much pain in my life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of influences that I have from Detroit that are subliminal. I mean, I spent the first 10 years of my life there. My mom and dad were born and raised there, so a lot of that rubbed off on me. When I get angry, sometimes a Detroit accent comes out.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Party Down' is the most fun I've ever had working in my life. We shoot 10-episode seasons and we shoot it in 10 weeks, so it's very brief: 4-day episode shoots. You never get sick of anybody, and it never feels like a drag. It's way, way, way too short.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like my life has been a series of miracles. I was in every sense a lost cause.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned in my life that you really don't know what's possible until you're already doing it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the course of my life, for more than half a century, June 1989 was the major turning point. Up to that point, I was a member of the first class to enter university when college entrance examinations were reinstated following the Cultural Revolution (Class of '77).
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- Nov 07, 2020