My Own Life Quotes - Page 4

• I was so afraid to feel free to enjoy my own life if my mother was sick and suffering everyday of her's. I didn't think I had the right.

  Gene Wilder

  Mother, Thinking, Sick

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• Talking about adversity that I've walked through in my own life or hearing an artist talk about their own adversity makes me feel vulnerable.

  John Feldmann

  Adversity, Artist, Talking

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I have struggled with perfectionism and I think it's a really damaging thing in my own life. When we put that perfectionism on someone else, it just hurts relationships whereas grace and trusting someone else's heart is a really, really incredible and important part of any relationship.

  Rebecca St. James

  Hurt, Heart, Thinking

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I definitely do feel a pull toward people and places that are far from my own life.

  Stef Penney

  People, Feels, My Own

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep way, I am excited to write about the real world, to stay in it. Fiction is an escape, a parallel life, and it was a powerful source of comfort for me when my own life was raw and uncomfortable. I don't feel the burning need to disappear into a fictional character these days.

  Kate Christensen

  Lonely, Powerful, Real

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm just singing about my own life. Singing about all the little stories in my life and the things I've been through.

  Katy Perry

  Singing, Stories, Littles

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• In my own life, I do not live like an effective altruist. An effective altruist would really disapprove of my life. I don't give enough to charity and I still have both my kidneys.

  Paul Bloom

  Giving, Charity, Kidneys

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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• I've always been obsessed with things that are half animal and half human - like mermaids and Minotaurs - because they are trapped in an animal body. And I felt trapped in my own life.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Animal, Mermaid, Half

  Interview with Anohni, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 2, 2016.

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• I base everything on my own life experiences as a female. I start from there, and then I look for characters and settings that I think are cinematic, where I can use symbols and imagery to tell a story.

  Anna Biller

  Character, Thinking, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead, my brother dead, my mother faraway, my sister and my wife far away, nothing here but my own tragic hands that once were guarded by a world, a sweet attention, that now are left to guide and disappear their own way into the common dark of all our deaths, sleeping in me raw bed, alone and stupid: with just this one pride and consolation: my broke heart in the general despair and opened up inwards to the Lord, I made a supplication in this dream

  Jack Kerouac

  Mother, Dream, Sweet

  Jack Kerouac (1972). “Visions of Cody”, London : André Deutsch

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• Me, when I'm utterly exhausted by it all, when my skin breaks out, on those lonely evenings when I call my friends again and again and nobody's home, then I despise my own life - my birth, my upbringing, everything.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Lonely, Home, Skins

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.59, Grove Press

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• I've seen my own death in dreams like this and it's helped me appreciate life more. I've also seen my own life in dreams and it's helped me appreciate death more.

  Marilyn Manson

  Dream, Appreciate, My Own

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• More than my own life

  Stephenie Meyer

  My Own

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved again. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Honest, Breathe

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.468, Simon and Schuster

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• And that's a life, isn't it? Some achievements and some disappointments. It's been interesting to me, though I wouldn't complain or be amazed if others found it less so. Maybe, in a way, Adrian knew what he was doing. Not that I would have missed my own life for anything, you understand. [pp.60-61]

  Julian Barnes

  Disappointment, Interesting, Achievement

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.56, Random House

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• And I think back over my own life and I realize that my own nature-the core me-essentially hasn’t changed all these years. When I wake up in the morning, for those first few moments before I remember where I am or when I am, I still feel that same way I did when I woke up at the age of five.

  Douglas Coupland

  Morning, Thinking, Years

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• Sometimes I feel that I am destined always to be offstage whenever the main action occurs. That God has made me the victim of some cosmic practical joke, by assigning me little more than a walk-on part in my own life. Or sometimes I feel that my role is simply to be a spectator to other people's stories, and always to wander away at the most important moment, drifiting into the kitchen to make a cup of tea just as the denouement unfolds.

  Jonathan Coe

  People, Kitchen, Tea

  Jonathan Coe (2001). “The rotters' club”

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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. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o’clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.

  Charles Dickens

  Friday, Believe, Hero

  David Copperfield ch. 1 (1850)

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• I have already told you Father, more than once: I’m not going to subject myself to a husband chosen for me, I’m not going to bury myself in some planter’s kitchen, and I’m not going to be a servant to some doctor or lawyer in Ilhéus. I want to live my own life. When I finish school at the end of the year, I want to go to work in an office

  Jorge Amado

  Husband, Father, School

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• Everything seemed meaningless to me. All of a sudden. My own life, the lives of others, of animals of plants, the whole world. It no longer fitted together.

  Erlend Loe

  Animal, Together, World

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.7, Canongate Books

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• Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around '92 and '96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life.

  Matthew Sweet

  Success, Girlfriend, Fun

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• During those long years in Oakland public schools, I did not have one teacher who taught me anything relevant to my own life or experience. Not one instructor ever awoke in me a desire to learn more or to question or to explore the worlds of literature, science, and history. All they did was try to rob me of the sense of my own uniqueness and worth, and in the process nearly killed my urge to inquire.

  Huey Newton

  Teacher, School, Years

  "Revolutionary Suicide". Book by Huey P. Newton, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1973.

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• I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life

  Armistead Maupin

  Pieces, My Own, Bits

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• Yes, I do feel the world revolves around me. After all, I am the main character of my own life.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Character, Deep Thought, World

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• I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Eugene H. Peterson (2006). “God's Message for Each Day: Wisdom from the Word of God”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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