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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
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of them is that I've got better as an actor. I've learnt how to do it. And I still have enough energy to do it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company. But you also end up in the company of people you don't admire, including some rather dodgy politicians.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life is one that I've aimed for - I've always wanted to be an actor who worked in film and television and was able to provide for himself and his family.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been in music all my life.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
- Certain Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, not only am I panicking over the weekend if I need to know my lines, but also if can I get the kids to the zoo. Can I even go to church? I was asking for certain things that would allow me to plan my life a little better.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My children are the focal point of my life. I was asking for a little more time to spend with them.
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- Nov 07, 2020