My Own Life Quotes - Page 3

Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece.

Steve Buscemi

Father, Thinking, Tree

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My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one purpose, to give back to India her ancient freedom.

Annie Besant

Home, Giving, India

"Indian critiques of Gandhi". Book by Harold G. Coward, 2003.

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Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn't mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes.

Drew Barrymore

Fall, Mean, Potholes

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I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me.

Alan Ball

Character, Emotional, People

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

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In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don't really get freaked out. I mean certainly, you read about things people did to each other in the pursuit of some mystical or occult goal, and it's horrifying. But that's just human nature.

Alan Ball

Mean, Thinking, Collective Unconscious

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I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.

Christian Bale

Play, Acting, Looks

"IGN Interviews Christian Bale". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. October 15, 2004.

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You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

David Mamet

Choices, Use, Actors

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In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my own life experience. The Divine Principle is in me, and I am in the Divine Principle.

Sun Myung Moon

Principles, Way, Documentaries

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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Pain, Thinking, Horror

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...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Lonely, Confused, Taken

Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.172, Penguin

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I exist, I am, I am here, I am becoming, I make my own life and no one else makes it for me. I must face my own shortcomings, mistakes, transgressions. No one can suffer my non-being as I do, but tomorrow is another day, and I must decide to leave my bed and live again. And if I fail, I don't have the comfort of blaming you or life or God.

Leo Buscaglia

Mistake, Here I Am, Suffering

LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!

Salvador Dali

Wrinkles, Hair, Iron

Salvador Dali (2013). “The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he finds they terminate in the hands of yet other puppets, themselves with their own strings which trace upward in turn, and so on. In my own life I saw these strings whose origins were endless enact the deaths of great men in violence and madness. Enact the ruin of a nation.

Cormac McCarthy

Men, Hands, World

Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic”, p.219, Pan Macmillan

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I believe in me, in my view of the world. I believe in my responsibility for my own destiny, guilt for my own sins, merit for my own good deeds, determination of my own life. I don't believe in miracles, I believe in hard work.

Philippa Gregory

Determination, Believe, Responsibility

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In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the small harbingers of larger life to come, hard to hope until the outcome is secure. Spring teaches me to look more carefully for the green stems of possibility; for the intuitive hunch that may turn into a larger insight, for the glance or touch that may thaw a frozen relationship, for the stranger's act of kindness that makes the world seem hospitable again.

Parker J. Palmer

Kindness, Spring, Winter

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I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept thinking it would be a good thing if I could tear my heart out of my breast, that heart which had grown so weary of life.

Anton Chekhov

Heart, Thinking, Tears

Anton Chekhov (2011). “Forty Stories”, p.309, Vintage

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From the place by the railing at the edge of the tracks on the summer evening I return across the city to my own room. I am vividly aware of my own life that escaped the winter on the boat. How many such lives I have lived. Then I only made a dollar and a half a day and now I sometimes make more than that in a few minutes. How wonderful to be able to write words. ... Again I begin the endless game of reconstructing my own life, jerking it out of the shell that dies, striving to breathe into it beauty and meaning. ... I wonder why my life, why all lives, are not more beautiful.

Sherwood Anderson

Beautiful, Summer, Writing

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Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

Charles Dickens

Inspirational, Hero, Pages

David Copperfield ch. 1 (1850)

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I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Nurse, Way To Live, Best Way

Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.106, A&C Black

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The entertainment industry is pretty nuts, and having had that experience outside of it and going to university has really made a big difference. It's important to me to feel like I have my own life.

Emma Watson

Nuts, Differences, Important

Interview with Emma Rosenblum, www.glamour.com. September 3, 2012.

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In my own life, I have no problems letting out a good scream.

Sofia Vergara

Problem, Scream, My Own

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It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

Taylor Swift

Struggle, Writing, Intense

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When I go to movies and I love the movie, it's because it feels like it articulated something about how we're living now, and also gives me some insight into my own life. I feel actually altered after having seen it.

Josh Radnor

Giving, Insight, Feels

"Josh Radnor & Elizabeth Olsen Are Okay With Being Earnest In ‘Liberal Arts’". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2012.

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And in my own life, in my own small way, I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.

Michelle Obama

Country, Jobs, Believe

Speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.npr.org. August 25, 2008.

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I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

Diane Ackerman

Life, Knowing Who You Are, Want

"On extended wings". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1985.

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