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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Becoming Miss America was one of those things. It immediately changed what I thought I was going to do with the rest of my life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've reinvented myself many times in my life. I thought I'd become a concert violinist but burned out at 17. I thought I'd go to law school but became Miss America.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting paperwork under control makes me feel more in control of my life generally.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Shantaram' is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the first to be written. The third book is a sequel to 'Shantaram,' the first a prequel.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
John Glenn's anniversaries have followed me all of my life. I was born in 1962, the year he orbited Earth.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, like, when I look back on my life, I just remember back what happened in '74, or something. It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don't think of all the tragedies and all the funerals. That just doesn't come to mind at all. I guess I'm really blessed that way.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fans on 'Pretty Little Liars' were the craziest fans I've ever met in my life in the best possible way. The dedication that those fans have to the show and the characters is amazing.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my kids were toddlers, they had all these rotomolded plastic things. My life became surrounded by big, hollow plastic toys - from the scale of playhouses down to rocking horses, and everything in between - which we would then take to the secondhand store. But we'd get sentimentally attached and hate to see them go.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020