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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
You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time, I thought I was going to go into law, but theatre just kept being so present in my life.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The day that changed my life was 3 July 1986, when I went to see American actress and singer Barbara Cook at London's Donmar Warehouse.
- Looking Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
Looking back at it now, any objective account of my life is bound to read like a cross between 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and a travel brochure.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was four, five, my granddad took me over to the park to play basketball. There was no way I was getting a ball into the net, but he said we stayed there until I got it in. I always remember that. He used to say to me, 'When you think you're going to do something, you won't ever stop.' I think that's the person I've been all my life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, all my life, I've grown up and had high expectations, but that becomes so stressful.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that Jersey Shore is awesome. I've gone to Cape May every summer of my life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I think back to some of the most fun nights of my life, it was just me out dancing without a care in the world. It's a release, an outlet.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very grateful for the platform that I've had in my life to speak out about the things I care about.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020