- Big Part
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I object to the actual phrase 'Follow me.' You've gotta be kidding! Why would I want to follow anybody else? Nor do I want them to follow me. The machinations of my life, the banalities - they're mine. They belong to me.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've loved music all my life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here's the deal: I believe - and I attempt to live my life this way - we all have more time than we think we do. We all waste so much time.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.
- Conscious Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, I don't miss the character of Akshara, but I cherish it. I will cherish it all my life. Leaving Akshara was a conscious decision of my life, and I was well prepared. When you are well prepared, then you don't miss, but you cherish it for a lifetime.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had a very unique path that's different from everybody else's. I was never a dater. I never went out that much. I've always had long-distance relationships. And, everything has come very fast in my life. I haven't waited for much.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a child, there was very little money, so I've always been concerned for my financial security, which has meant that finding myself as a writer was a bad move. The practical difference the money has made is that I can support myself by fiction. That is what I have been trying to do throughout my life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The mail-order stationery people supply every need from royal blue Quink to a dazzling variety of portable hard drives.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to practice with my life.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had been under ObamaCare, and a beaurocrat had been trying to tell me when I could get that CT scan, that would have delayed my treatment. I was able to get the treatment as fast as I could based upon my timetable, and not the government's timetable. That's what saved my life.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
I taught four classes in my life. They were a master class at Northwestern and three classes at Emerson when I was making 'Here Comes the Boom' in Boston.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In five years, I completed grade school. Even when I was a young boy, I had a plan for my life.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do not suppose, dearest Sir, that I am so short-sighted as to destroy my life by English preaching, or any other preaching. St. Paul did much good by his preaching, but how much more by his writings.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020