My Own Life Quotes - Page 10

• The last thing in the world that I would want to know, in my own life, is when I'm going to pass away.

  Vince Gilligan

  Passing Away, World, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• When making a film, I'm never concerned about whether the theme is new or whether it's been done before in cinema or not. I'm led to make films if there's a theme that interests me or I experience something in my own life that confronts me with something that I want to deal with.

  Michael Haneke

  Cinema, Done, Want

  "Michael Haneke Talks AMOUR, His Inspiration for the Film, His Casting Decisions, Physical and Emotional Demands of the Film and Shooting the Film in French". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. December 14, 2012.

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• When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

  Jesse Harris

  Writing, Hands, Tunes

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• In my own life if I knew I was going to pass away I'd love to sit down and resolve every issue so I could go peacefully.

  John Travolta

  Issues, Passing Away, Down And

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• I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer.

  Reverend Malcolm Boyd

  Prayer, Expression, Psalms

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• I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me,
  I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.

  T. S. Eliot

  Tired, Dying, Mortality

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To know how other people behave takes intelligence, but to know myself takes wisdom. To manage other people's lives takes strength, but to manage my own life takes true power. If I am content with what I have, I can live simply and enjoy both prosperity and free time. If my goals are clear, I can achieve them without fuss. If I am at peace with myself, I will not spend my life force in conflicts. If I have learned to let go, I do not need to fear dying.

  John Heider

  Letting Go, Peace, Learning

  John HEider (2015). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.33, Green Dragon Books

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• I think it's really hard to work in a city where you live too, because I get so absorbed with the movie that I become a bad friend and a bad participant in my own life.

  Greta Gerwig

  Bad Friend, Thinking, Cities

  Source: collider.com

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• You may be asking yourselves, 'Who is this man standing before us?' i would like to reply to that question with something absolutely certain about my own life: The man standing before you is a man who has been forgiven. A man who was, and is, saved from his many sins.

  Pope Francis

  Life, Men, Asking

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• Sometimes when something really works well, it becomes a target, forty years for me, I've been a part, and I've loved every minute of it. My family has done so well with it. It's been a beautiful thing for me. I've saved lives with it and saved my own life several times. Through my loss of my son, it helped me every step of the way for two years solid, and here I am.

  John Travolta

  Life, Beautiful, Son

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• My very first products were hand-made, one-of-a-kind pins. When I finally realized I could repeat a phrase to make multiples, intellectuals gone bad, a fairly succinct description of my own life, seemed appropriate.

  Anne Taintor

  Hands, Firsts, Gone

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• My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.

  David Mamet

  Dad, Ideas, Coins

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• As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks.

  Gloria Steinem

  Writing, Finding Yourself, Textbooks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life.

  Cassandra Clare

  Writing, Character, People

  TheFandom.net Interview, www.thefandom.net.

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• I'm always identifying some fallacy in my own life. I'm sort of making fun of myself by exploring and unpacking just why I'm sort of automatically thrown to be a certain way.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fun, Unpacking, Way

  Interview with Jeff Sartain, strangehorizons.com. October 16, 2006.

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• In my own life I like to be poised and have a positive outlook on life, and I'm leading by example to my children and people around me.

  Nikki Sixx

  Children, Outlook On Life, People

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• That catharsis is really the core of the incredibly personal comedy of Louis C.K. or Marc Maron or whatever. And look - I find it fascinating that I'm sitting here talking about some of these things, and not to low tones, and my kids are in the other room. I have to trust that if they hear what I'm saying and they have questions about it, I'll be able to answer it, and that's fine. But that's part of the scariness of it - the reality of opening up my own life and my own feelings.

  John Hodgman

  Kids, Reality, Opening Up

  Interview with Greg Hunter, therumpus.net. October 21, 2013.

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• I guess in my own life, privacy, anonymity, and the mystery of being lost are important. I also feel that people are mysterious and complex no matter what they do, and no matter how hard they try to reveal their own mystery.

  Jennifer Egan

  People, Important, Trying

  "Jennifer Egan’s Novel Approach". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. May 27, 2010.

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• I never give any character I play less respect than I give my own life.

  Meryl Streep

  Character, Play, Giving

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• I push myself as hard as I can. Sometimes that can be painful and stressful but inthe end it's worth the price... I like to play characters that I can draw from in my own life. I've invested so much of my life into my work that I almost don't have any choice.

  Kristen Stewart

  Character, Play, Choices

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• In my own life as a reader I experience real moments of alienation when a writer feels too perfect, or like even the flaws they are admitting are somehow noble, or dysfunctional in an overly edgy, aesthetically pleasing way.

  Leslie Jamison

  Real, Perfect, Admitting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm doing exactly what I was supposed to do. Yeah. I didn't exactly choose this. My own life, if it were up to me, would be very, very quiet. I'd be like a shopkeeper, a book collector, or something like that. I'm not like this. Myself as a performer and an artist is totally different from who I am.

  Mos Def

  Book, Artist, Who I Am

  "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council (2003 Cover Story)". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. January 11, 2016.

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• I guess in my own life I don't really think much about manliness too much. I feel like a lot of men that I know don't sit around thinking, "How am I supposed to be a man?" I don't think that I have to prove anything.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Men, Thinking, Too Much

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has.

  Tim O'Brien

  Life Is, Bounce, One Thing

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• Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life.

  Katherine Paterson

  Reading, Differences, Profound

  Source: www.hbook.com

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