My Own Life Quotes - Page 7

• I hope that by modeling feminism in my own life, work and relationships that it will haut become an organic part of my daughter's life. But I'm also fully prepared for her to become a Republican as a way to rebel as a teenager - that would be just my luck!

  Jessica Valenti

  Daughter, Teenager, Luck

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• I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Suicide, Law, Crooks

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• I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Orbit, Stories, World

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• When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

  Shakti Gawain

  Light, People, Share

  "Shakti Gawain Is Still ‘Living in the Light’". Interview with BJ Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.

  Hu Shih

  Light, Vegetables, Oil

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• The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.

  Nicholson Baker

  Sympathy, Voice, Rooms

  Nicholson Baker (2011). “U and I: A True Story”, p.65, Vintage

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• Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.

  Lake Bell

  Thinking, Interesting, Neurosis

  “American Pastoral” by Whitney Vargas, www.elle.com. February 4, 2011.

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• I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

  Chris Cooper

  Imagination, Research, Life Experience

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• I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.

  Peter Carey

  Writing, Selfishness, Here And There

  "An Interview With Author Peter Carey". Interview with Ben Evans, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2010.

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• A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

  Emily Giffin

  Book, Choices, Want

  "Book Corner: Emily Giffin's Latest Novel: Where We Belong". Interview with Kristin Buettner, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 9, 2012.

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• My friends would certainly call me out if I didn't say that I like to create a bit of chaos and stir things up in my own life.

  Christopher Heyerdahl

  Chaos, Call Me, My Own

  Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com. 2012.

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• Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.

  Tony Hillerman

  Important, My Own

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• You know, I consistently change in my own life so the roles I'm suitable for also change, and that's a really nice thing about this profession.

  Chris Klein

  Nice, Roles, Profession

  "Q&A: Chris Klein on 'American Reunion' and His Hero Harrison". Interview with Elizabeth Durand, www.mtv.com. July 09, 2012.

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• It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Sex, Roles, Literature

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• I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.

  Kiri Te Kanawa

  Hands, Sometimes, Slap

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• I always write things that entertain me, and one of the things that I find really enjoyable to explore is the idea of love. I like looking at my own life and my friends and family and how love changes who you are. It fascinates me.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Writing, Ideas, Family And Friends

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• I have a very hard time with confrontation in my own life, and I end up being way too nice.

  Missi Pyle

  Nice, Hard Times, Way

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• My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.

  Tom Perrotta

  Exciting, Novel, My Own

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• I've found in my own life, if you try to struggle against what the universe is telling you, you set yourself up for more of a battle.

  Michael Stuhlbarg

  Struggle, Battle, Trying

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

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• I'm a minor player in my own life story.

  Tony Wilson

  Player, Stories, Life Story

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• I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

  Wally Lamb

  Writing, Opportunity, Thinking

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• I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.

  Tamara Mellon

  Wife, Trophies, Imagine

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• I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.

  Elliot Cowan

  Thinking, Bystanders, Play

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

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• I'm working in a form of cinema that can be described, and has been described, as a diaristic form of cinema. In other words, with material from my own life. I walk through life with my camera, and occasionally I film. I never think about scripts, never think about films, making films.

  Jonas Mekas

  Thinking, Scripts, Cameras

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• I am very active on the Internet. In 2007, I made one film every day and posted it on my website. That was a 365-day project, really exhausting, but I still put a lot of stuff on - from life, friends, my own life.

  Jonas Mekas

  Stuff, Film, Internet

  "Jonas Mekas captures one moment at a time". Interview with Molly Glentzer, www.chron.com. November 15, 2013.

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