Life Story Quotes - Page 4

• I've always said if somebody wrote a book and they took their whole life to learn that knowledge in that book, why you won't just read that book to learn what they know? I have never seen anyone take a book combining Faith, personal Development and life stories that are just so practical and relatable to our own generation.

  Jeff Olson

  Book, Generations, Stories

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• Taking the things people do wrong seriously is part of taking them seriously. It’s part of letting their actions have weight. It’s part of letting their actions be actions rather than just indifferent shopping choices; of letting their lives tell a life-story, with consequences, and losses, and gains, rather than just be a flurry of events. It’s part of letting them be real enough to be worth loving, rather than just attractive or glamorous or pretty or charismatic or cool.

  Francis Spufford

  Real, Loss, Shopping

  Francis Spufford (2012). “Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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• As the Hindu gods are 'immortal' only in a very particular sense - for they had born and they die - they experience most of the great human dilemmas and often seem to differ from mortals in a few trivial details... and from demons even less. Yet they are regarded by the Hindus as a class of beigns by definition totally different from any other; they are symbols in a way that no human beign, however 'archetypal' his life story, can ever be. They are actors playing parts that are real only for us; they are masks behind which we see our own faces.

  Wendy Doniger

  Real, Class, Actors

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• I believe stories are very important to all performances. The life story of the performer shapes their work, and the life stories of the audience alter how they receive the work, what they read into the performer.

  Marina Abramovic

  Believe, Important, Stories

  "An Interview with Marina Abramović: Art, Science and the Marina Abramović Institute". Interview with Stephanie Spiro, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2013.

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• History repeats itself only in that, from afar, we all seem to lead exactly the same life. We are all born; we all spend time here on earth; we all die. But up close, we have each walked down our own separate paths. We have stood at our own lonely crossroads. We have touched the lives of others at crucial points, for better or for worse. In the end, each of us has lived a unique life story, astounding and complicated, a story that could never be repeated.

  Edward Bloor

  Lonely, Unique, Earth

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• In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Brain, Looks, Stories

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Galapagos: A Novel”, Dial Press

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• I don't believe that climate-change fiction will change the mind of a denier because most of the deniers I've met are basically in a cult situation. It's a faith issue. It's not a rational issue. There's no fact that's going to change their mind. They simply believe in the cult of climate-change denial and it somehow feeds into the rest of the mythos of their own life story.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Believe, Mind, Denial

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I just think Josephine Baker life story needs to be done. I think she was an extraordinary woman. To see someone who was basically a showgirl have the kind of lifestyle she had was extraordinary. I really think she made her own lifestyle.

  Diana Ross

  Thinking, Stories, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's hard to find really original, compelling works of fiction, for women especially. I find that these true life stories about these women that I'm so blessed to play are some of the most compelling stories, and the truth is stranger than fiction.

  Hilary Swank

  Blessed, Play, True Life

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think people like listening to what I call trippy music but maybe next year it will be something else. I still have gangster tracks and real-life stories and situations in my music. I’ve been blessed because over 20 year, I never stopped doing what I was doing. It’s pretty much the same thing and I’ve never really changed anything up.

  Juicy J

  Real, Blessed, Thinking

  Source: www.sfstation.com

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• Are you feeling helpless when you think about the dark roads of the future? Then read the biographies of the great men! Learn their life stories; they will lead you to the light! Buddha will lead you to the light; Gandhi will lead you to the light! Men of wider horizons will broaden our own horizons!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Dark, Thinking

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• I began to encounter real-life stories of dogs protecting their wounded or dying or dead handler... or dogs refusing to leave the bodies of the people they were bonded to, sitting in cemeteries for days or sometimes weeks. You find these stories endlessly.

  Robert Crais

  Dog, Real, People

  "THR's Book of the Week: 'Suspect' by Robert Crais " by Andy Lewis, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 14, 2013.

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• Ive seen Fried Green Tomatoes too many times. I love life stories told in flashback.

  Liam James

  Love Life, Tomatoes, Stories

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• We're missing a lot of the real-life stories of what people's work looks like. Those are the people that I want sitting on the zoning board meetings, on the zoning commissions. Those are the people I want participating in business improvement in their own industry. The gentrification processes that often happen in cities so often manifest in street sweeps of sex workers. How do you get sex workers on neighborhood associations, regarded as members of the neighborhood?

  Melissa Gira Grant

  People, Missing, Improvement

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

  Bill Bryson

  Stories, Use, World

  "Travels with a super hero". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2006.

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• From what my friends tell me, apparently some guys can be pretty intimidated by me when they find out what I do. I find it funny because I try to be modest and I don't like to talk about gymnastics unless I am asked about it. But my roommates always take on my bragging rights and tell my life story to the guys we meet, which leaves me blushing.

  Alicia Sacramone

  Gymnastics, Bragging Rights, Guy

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I came first to America in 1977 at the invitation of a man who wanted to make my life story into a musical. But my agent said it was not to be and it was never done. So I went back, but I'd seen New York, and I wanted to live there. Because everybody talks to you in the street. See, nobody talks to you in England.

  Quentin Crisp

  New York, Men, America

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As you may know from my life story, my cousin who was my soul mate went to a public school. And he died of AIDS. Would I and my brother have been able to resist the lure of drugs in the surrounding schools? Who knows.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Cousin, Brother, School

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting.

  Beth Orton

  Stories, Want, Painting

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

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• When I'm interviewed on Leno, just be funny, period. That's all they want from me. I don't want to tell my life story.

  David Spade

  Stories, Want, Periods

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• Now, I want to explain something to you guys. I don't have an ending joke, because I don't tell jokes. I tell real-life stories and make them funny. So, I'm not like the average comedian. They have an ending joke; they always holler Peace! I'm out of here, and walk off stage. So, basically, when I get through performing on stage, I just walk off.

  Bruce Bruce

  Real, Average, Guy

  "Bruce Bruce: Losin' It", Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. February 26, 2011.

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• I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

  Dolly Parton

  Musical, Stories, Decided

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• Honestly, being a part of any worthy life story is a goal of mine.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Goal, Stories, Worthy

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• You can't write your life story and leave out one of the most important things that happened to you in your life. I think that that would be dishonest, and it would be something people would be very angry about.

  Kris Jenner

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I know a lot of people connect with my story. Every night that I do shows, I get emails and texts and tweets about how my life story has helped change other people's lives. With my sobriety and what I went through. I don't do a whole bunch of songs, that from start to end talk about one particular thing. That's a missing puzzle.

  Shane Bunting

  Song, Night, People

  Source: 411mania.com

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