- Mind
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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
- Critically
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am ecstatic that 'KPC' was a commercial hit and was critically acclaimed. The 60 days we shot for it were the best days of my life. I still get goosebumps when I think of them.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Friendships have been such an important part of my life both emotionally and logistically.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
As for writing novels - it's what I've done for 30 some-odd years. I can't suddenly say I'm going to take up golf. I need something in my life. As long as I can write a coherent sentence, I'll keep at it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've trained in dance for most of my life, but ballet was the thing I left behind the earliest because they felt like I didn't have the right body for it, and I didn't like that and never felt like I could be a part of that dance structure.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pre-'Tokyo Drift,' I was like: 'Am I gonna play Yakuza #1 and Chinese Waiter #2 for the rest of my life? Is America even ready for an Asian face that speaks English, that doesn't do Kung Fu?'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Failures in film do not mean much to me because at the end of the day, I am successful in my life.
- Geography
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 26 or 27, I took a year off before I was going to get my Ph.D. in geography and started traveling. And within a month, I said, 'I don't want to be academic. I want to write fiction.' And as soon as I said that - 'I'm going to write fiction' - everything in my life started to make sense.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
At Kobe, whither I fled from Hong Kong, I took a step of great importance. I cut off my cue, which had been growing all my life.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life is actually empty, so I feel like I'm lying to everyone by pretending to be happy on the outside.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For some reason, I was drawn towards boxing. Or maybe boxing drew me towards it - because once I put those gloves on, after about six months, boxing was my life.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020