Life Story Quotes - Page 2

• People need to understand that what happens in people's homes and behind closed doors, unless you were there, you really shouldn't make any analogy or any assumption, which writers do quite a bit. It's not something I ever for one second thought about. This is not my life story, and I've never told my life story, and I have no interest in telling my life story.

  Charlize Theron

  Home, Doors, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Anytime you share life stories with other people, you know, you are acknowledging their humanity and kind of accessing some things about yourself, and other people start to expect things about themselves. It's kind of like a fellowship.

  Jill Scott

  People, Humanity, Stories

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• You write your life story by the choices you make.

  Helen Mirren

  Writing, Choices, Stories

  "Helen Mirren: 'I still have a Gypsy sense of adventure'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2011.

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• You can pretty much do it with anything. You can tell your life story with all the jeans you've worn, or every pair of shoes you've owned.

  Sarah Gerard

  Source: therumpus.net

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• How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but — mainly — to ourselves.

  Julian Barnes

  Cutting, Challenges, Stories

  "The Sense of an Ending". Book by Julian Barnes, www.penguin.co.uk. 2001.

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• So yes I know how angry, or naive, or self-destructive, or messed up, or even deluded I sound weaving my way through these life stories at times. But beautiful things. Graceful things. Hopeful things can sometimes appear in dark places.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Life, Beautiful, Dark

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• If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

  R. Kelly

  Stories, Honest, Ifs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother.

  Rocco DiSpirito

  Mother, Roots, Honor

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• I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.

  Frank Serpico

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

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• As much as I do love real-life stories they can often make you hurt in a way I'd rather not hurt. . . . For some reason, it's always the pain that gets you.

  Henry Cavill

  Hurt, Pain, Real

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• You are the director of your own life story. Don't cast idiots or people will walk out during your 2nd act.

  Dane Cook

  People, Directors, Stories

  FaceBook post by Dane Cook from Sep 03, 2014

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• I told my whole life story in my book.

  Heather Mills

  Book, Stories, Whole Life

  Interview With Fiona Phillips, www.news.com.au. March 17, 2009.

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• If it is true ... that no one has a life worth thinking about whose life story cannot be told, does it not then follow that life could be, even ought to be, lived as a story, that what one has to do in life is to make the story come true?

  Hannah Arendt

  Life, Thinking, Doe

  Hannah Arendt, Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb (2007). “Reflections on Literature and Culture”, p.271, Stanford University Press

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• We all have a life story and a message that can inspire others to live a better life or run a better business. Why not use that story and message to serve others and grow a real business doing it?

  Brendon Burchard

  Running, Real, Inspire

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• I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If you'd wanted the narrative line you should have asked earlier, when I still knew everything and was more than willing to tell. That was before I discovered the virtues of scissors, the virtues of matches.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mean, Should Have, Together

  "The Tent". Book by Margaret Atwood, 2006.

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• There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, Stories, Chance

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.

  Jane Yolen

  Children, Life Changing, Book

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• Stories have inspired me all my life. I like reading about what other people have done and it inspires me to share my own stories, and encourage people to make their own life stories.

  Phil Keoghan

  Reading, People, Inspire

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• On the plane, an eight-year-old with an excess of testosterone keeps running across my feet. Finally I grab him by his T-shirt and say, very sweetly, 'Listen, darling, if you don't stop trampling me I'm going to make you sit on my lap while I tell you my entire life story. Including a lot of details about drug rehab and my divorce.' He goes back to his seat.

  Rosanne Cash

  Running, Divorce, Years

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• The whole life story of Jesus, on the human side, is the life story of One who lived by faith.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Jesus, Stories, Sides

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• The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Stories, Pieces, Way

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• Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author.

  Hannah Arendt

  Stories, Actors, Producers

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• With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new technologies mean we can make complicated, beautifully crafted and cinematic films about real-life stories.

  Lucy Walker

  Real, Mean, Technology

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• Clothe yourself in your authority. You speak not only as yourself or for yourself. You will speak and act with the courage and endurance that has been yours through the long, beautiful aeons of your life story.

  Joanna Macy

  Beautiful, Long, Endurance

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• Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that is most private and probably most interesting for that very reason.

  Judith Krantz

  Writing, Interesting, Stories

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