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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'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't really have a function as a useful artist in that anymore.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had one experience of writer's block in my life, and it was living hell. It was a terror for me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents keep me grounded. I've spent a lot of time on my own in my life, and I've learnt the hard way.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peterson was the most coachable athlete I have had in my life, and I coach many athletes.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've already exceeded my expectations for myself. I'm one of the most influential people! I mean come on! I wanted to be... I never thought the things I've experienced in my life, I didn't think that was the life that I was gonna get to live.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought in my life, I never really thought I would get married. I watched my parents go through a divorce, and I thought, like, this is just not something people are supposed to do.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live my life like anybody else, and people choose to write about mine. And what they write I can't control - when they write lies at least - because the laws can't really protect you unless you can prove malicious intent. So I just choose not to read it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never had a job in my life that I was better than. I was always just lucky to have a job. And every job I had was a steppingstone to my next job, and I never quit my job until I had my next job.
- Moonlight
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Moonlight' has changed my life externally but also internally... spiritually as well.
- Good Lord
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- Nov 07, 2020
First and foremost, praying about things and having the good Lord as a part of my life is a huge grounding thing for me.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The decision to use a pen name was nothing more than a desire to compartmentalise my life. However, I had not thought about an appropriate pseudonym, and since there's an abundance of anagrams in the novel, the idea struck me: why not use an anagram of my name? Hence, Shawn Haigins.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate.
- Nov 07, 2020
My life is ruled by four W's: my writing, my work, my wife, and my whisky. Not necessarily in that order.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020