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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.
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I think people in Montreal smoke a lot, and I used to smoke when I was 17-18, and just picked it up when I was playing juniors. But I think I stopped when I was 22, which was a big decision in my life.
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Inside me I'm Ghanaian, and I'm proud to be African. But of course I'm Italian. I was born in Italy. I've never been to Africa in my life, but I will go one day.
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For much of my life - my sister and I have talked about this - when we moved, we just thought the world behind us disappeared, and all of the people, they just didn't exist any more.
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I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.
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Music is my 90% of my life and my biggest passion. I really don't have an interest in anything else.
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I'm 5 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they - George Raft and John Garfield.
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Cancer came back into my life twice in order for me to understand something, and I guess I still wasn't getting it. And my husband wasn't getting it, either.
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At 30 I thought my life was over. I thought I'd have made something of myself by then, that life would somehow have made the necessary arrangements - but actually I had nothing.
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All I've done is live my life in the theater and loved it.
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I've been, for want of a better phrase, a supporting actress so much of my life.
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Even now that I only have one eye, maybe I see more things than before. My life was completely against the clock, a fight against the stopwatch.
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The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not.
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My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life.
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