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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creativity runs on automatic, no matter what's happening in other parts of my life. I can't help myself. It's been in me, and it evolves in me over the years. It's a condition in me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be in a relationship for the same reason I don't want a kid: I don't want anything in my life to be more important than me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think nothing I've done has impacted my life as much as working on 'Treme,' because it was the first project that I worked on in the United States after being an actor in the Netherlands my whole life, basically.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a moment there when it was getting really bad and everyone was being let go. I was, like, 'Can I get fired, please? Can I move on with my life?
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have deliberately arranged my life so that I see pictures of cute animals on the Internet every day.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A plant-based diet has actually simplified my life in so many ways. For breakfast, I try to get my first serving of fruits and nuts for fuel. I'm completely addicted to coconut water for the electrolytes and hydration.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find it an absolute pleasure to read travel guides, especially the Michelin guides, and their description of places I know I'll probably never visit. I spend a large part of my life reading descriptions of restaurants.
- Good Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never in my life categorized a year of my life as good or bad. I just think I'm living a good life, warts and all.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was, when I came to New York in the 1970s, no more profound or moving experience than MoMA, an almost perfect piece of 20th Century modernist expression, existing in an extraordinary balance - modestly, functionally, elegantly - with the extraordinary art it held. This place changed my life. I was transformed by every visit.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A little part of my life is built around ancient art.
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- Nov 07, 2020