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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.
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- Nov 07, 2020
All that I've done in my life thus far, all the poems and all the pictures, are not so much an intermingling of my life with art but a divine accident.
- Different Shapes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been all sorts of different shapes and sizes at different times in my life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've spent all my life playing roles that illustrious people have played before me.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't depend on fighting or the UFC to live my life.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know I have a successful career, a successful life. If I sit and say, 'Look, I have a comfortable life,' and I... just think about myself, I don't think that would be fair. That would be very selfish. Because everything I do in my life is to benefit my people.
- Devote
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my mid-20s, I was directing episodes of 'Alfred Hitchcock' and 'Peter Gunn.' I was pretty much on course and - as I sometimes joke - was prepared to devote my life to become the second best film director in my family.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.
- Crime Fiction
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- Nov 07, 2020
My senior year at College Park, University of Maryland, I took an elective class in crime fiction taught by Charles C. Mish. He turned me on in a big way to reading and books. I was lucky to have a teacher who changed the course of my life.
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- Nov 07, 2020