Alive Quotes - Page 19

• That is a goal, to step out on stage and to actually be present. Honestly alive and present. Although, it doesn't always happen. We're fallible, we're imperfect. That's what a lot of books are written about; that's what a lot of religions have sought after is that kind of zen mentality of just being totally neutral and open and vulnerable to all of the forces in the universe without being attached to them.

  Dan Mangan

  Book, Goal, Just Being

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• That is much of what I think the writer's job is - to slow people down. To give them the chance to notice the passage of time as experienced by others as a reminder of what it is like to be alive. Because we are most often distracted from that. Massively distracted.

  Adam Haslett

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Source: threeguysonebook.com

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• You're never so alive as after you thought you were going to die.

  Ethan Canin

  Dies

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• You have no idea what's going to happen [in Downton Abbey] until you get the script. We roughly knew a couple of the key points that were going to happen, but when I got the last episode, I turned to the last page to check that I was still alive.

  Hugh Bonneville

  Couple, Keys, Ideas

  "Hugh Bonneville Talks ‘Downton Abbey’, The Final Season, Julian Fellowes, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 28, 2015.

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  So many great people are dead, and so many assholes I know are still alive. Karma's bullshit. I wish it was true, but it ain't.

  John Waters

  Karma, People, Bullshit

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I got an amazing 10-CD set, it's the music that Alan Lomax recorded in Haiti in 1936. And what's incredible is how fantastic the drummers are and how off-the-grid they are. The liveliness is astonishing; they're just totally alive, these recordings. It's very interesting, to me, to be reminded of that, that there was a time when things were not that tight.

  Brian Eno

  Cds, Interesting, Haiti

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I first came up, the whole AIDS epidemic was starting, and the gay community that I experienced from the beginning of my career was mostly - and overwhelmingly - concerned with staying alive. And, also, I felt really aware of the preciousness of life and time. The gay community and people who were HIV-positive were treated so badly, and I was very disturbed by things. But I also saw a lot of love and connection in the gay community at that time.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Gay, Epidemics, Careers

  "The Unapologetic Madonna Interview: The Queen Of Pop On Grindr, Song Leaks, Her Kids, And More". Interview with Dan Avery, www.newnownext.com. March 10, 2015.

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• I think the story only really comes alive on the set.

  Mora Stephens

  Thinking, Stories

  "INTERVIEWS HOME » INTERVIEWS » Interview: Mora Stephens Talks Zipper (Exclusive) Interview: Mora Stephens Talks Zipper (Exclusive)". Interview with Karen Benardello, www.shockya.com. August 25, 2015.

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• The script is the foundation, but it's not the full story for the film, which only comes alive with the actors.

  Mora Stephens

  Foundation, Stories, Actors

  "Interview: Mora Stephens Talks Zipper (Exclusive)". Interview with Karen Benardello, www.shockya.com. August 25, 2015.

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• Startups are the engines of exponential growth, manifesting the power of innovation. Several big companies today are startups of yesterday. They were born with a spirit of enterprise and adventure kept alive due to hardwork and perseverance and today have become shining beacons of innovation.

  Narendra Modi

  Perseverance, Adventure, Technology

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• All the history of the stage is a struggle, the gasping of a beautiful child born at the point of death. The moralists, censorship and oppression, technology, and now poverty have all tried to destroy her. Only we, the actors and audiences, have kept her alive.

  Gene Wolfe

  Beautiful, Art, Children

  Gene Wolfe (2009). “The very best of Gene Wolfe: a definitive retrospective of his finest short fiction”

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• I too was naughty as a child & played pranks. The child within us has to be kept alive because that child keeps us alive.

  Narendra Modi

  Children, Motivation, Naughty

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• I do think that procrastination evolved in humans for good reasons. If you're trying to stay alive as a human being on the savanna 20,000 years ago, worrying about what's right behind that bush is a lot more important than worrying about what might happen three weeks from now.

  James Surowiecki

  Procrastination, Thinking, Years

  "Ask the Author Live: James Surowiecki on Procrastination". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2010.

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• I say all the time that if you really want to feel alive, it's not through striving for yourself. If you really want to feel alive, it's not through trying to get more things or get more success or climbing a corporate ladder or getting to the top. Because, once you get there, you realize that you don't really find happiness in that. If you want to feel alive and if you want to feel peace and happiness, give your life away. Do something that is outside of yourself for someone else. I think that's the way to truly feel alive.

  Natalie Grant

  Thinking, Climbing, Giving

  "Natalie Grant’s whirlwind success continues with 'Hurricane'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I'm really thankful to be alive. If you get to know me, I'm a person that's always smiling and always joyful and I've been that way since I was born because of the struggles I went through. I was supposed to be number eight that died so I'm always thankful.

  Dwight Howard

  Struggle, Numbers, Eight

  "NBA All-Star Dwight Howard talks about family, faith and destiny". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I never question the way I write. Writing is the only thing that's without seams for me. It's an effort to talk because my pictures have to be turned into these sounds. It's an effort to be alive. It's work. But writing is wonderful.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Effort, Way

  Source: content.time.com

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• I traveled really to amazing places. I went to the Great Barrier Reef, I went to the Amazon, I went to the Andes, to try to bring people stories of sort of what's going on out in the world and bring this issue alive, in a way, and put it out there.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Issues, People, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think that people have some sort of vision that everybody is moving towards perfection, and that there is some sort of set steps or something like that that you can move through to get to that place, and that that's sort of the project of being alive.

  Ayana Mathis

  Moving, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think that the project of being alive is to be alive. So there will always be twists and turns and steps forward and steps back, but that's just your life. There is no sort of place at which to arrive, and I think that the more one focuses on an end point, the harder it is to get there. It's like the horizon, sort of ever receding, ever receding, ever receding.

  Ayana Mathis

  Thinking, Twists, Horizon

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I feel now, in my impending old age, very lucky. I just can't tell you how lucky I feel, that I've managed to first of all, stay alive this long, in reasonably good health, and that I've been able to do what I want to do.

  Paul Auster

  Long, Age, Firsts

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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• When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.

  Henry Miller

  Travel, Spring, Paris

  Henry Miller (1961). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• Noone knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart.. it comes from being alive.

  Richard Carlson

  Life, Heart, Thinking

  Richard Carlson (1992). “You can be happy no matter what”

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• You might argue that my example is bad because Einstein is dead. But according to physicist Erwin Schrodinger, Einstein is neither dead nor alive until we dig him up and open the casket. If he's alive, he might want his brain back, which I understand is in a Ziplock bag in some guy's freezer. And this is a perfect example of why examples always distract from the main point.

  Scott Adams

  Death, Suicide, Perfect

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• The engagement of the heart in worship is the coming alive of the feelings and emotions and affections of the heart. Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.

  John Piper

  Prayer, Heart, Feelings

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.86, Multnomah

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• Women do not avoid fighting because they are dainty or scared, but because they have a greater stake than men in staying alive to rear their offspring. Women compete with each other just as tenaciously as men, but with a stealth and subtlety that reduces their chances of being killed or injured.

  Anne Campbell

  Fighting, Men, Scared

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