Staying Alive Quotes - Page 3

• All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.

  Robert Altman

  Alive, Film, Strive

  Robert Altman, David Sterritt (2000). “Robert Altman: Interviews”, p.40, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I feel now, in my impending old age, very lucky. I just can't tell you how lucky I feel, that I've managed to first of all, stay alive this long, in reasonably good health, and that I've been able to do what I want to do.

  Paul Auster

  Long, Age, Firsts

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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• When you start you're trying to achieve staying alive and getting home. If you can do both of those, then you stand a chance of breaking the record.

  Ellen MacArthur

  Home, Trying, Records

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I had a story-telling mother; she's written novels and short stories. So I feel like maybe I'm staying alive by telling tales.

  Ayshay

  Mother, Stories, Alive

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out.

  Juliette Lewis

  Art, People, Joy

  "New again: Juliette Lewis". Interview witр Ingrid Sischy and Hannah Mandel, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

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• Relationships are like sharks. They've got to keep going into deeper, colder water, sometimes scarier, darker territories ... to stay alive.

  Richard Gere

  Sharks, Water, Alive

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• The prosperity of the second half of the twentieth century was both a cause and an effect of social and scientific breakthroughs that have redefined human life. The biggest change is simply that people live longer and have far more freedom to think about things other than staying alive.

  David Bornstein

  Freedom, Thinking, People

  David Bornstein (2004). “How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas”, p.6, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the mind is always at the frontiers of ''what is already known.'' Those great books don't only need custodians and transmitters. To stay alive, they also need adversaries. The most interesting ideas are heresies.

  Susan Sontag

  Real, Book, Ideas

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• When I first came up, the whole AIDS epidemic was starting, and the gay community that I experienced from the beginning of my career was mostly - and overwhelmingly - concerned with staying alive. And, also, I felt really aware of the preciousness of life and time. The gay community and people who were HIV-positive were treated so badly, and I was very disturbed by things. But I also saw a lot of love and connection in the gay community at that time.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Gay, Epidemics, Careers

  "The Unapologetic Madonna Interview: The Queen Of Pop On Grindr, Song Leaks, Her Kids, And More". Interview with Dan Avery, www.newnownext.com. March 10, 2015.

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• It took me three, four years, to get from my first film to my second film, banging on doors, trying to get people to give me a chance. Writing, struggling, with no money in the bank, working as an editor on the side. Working as a cameraman on the side. Getting little jobs, eking out a living. Trying to stay alive, and pushing a script that nobody wanted.

  George Lucas

  Jobs, Struggle, Writing

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• Some people steal to stay alive, and some steal to feel alive. Simple as that.

  V. E. Schwab

  Simple, People, Alive

  V. E. Schwab (2017). “The Shades of Magic Series: (A Darker Shade of Magic, A Gathering of Shadows, A Conjuring of Light)”, p.209, Tor Books

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• What a magnificent accomplishment to be able to stay alive as an innocent lamb in the land of guilty wolves!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Land, Accomplishment, Alive

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• I am breathing. That's how I'm staying alive!

  Ryan Stiles

  Breathing, Alive, Staying

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• I do think that procrastination evolved in humans for good reasons. If you're trying to stay alive as a human being on the savanna 20,000 years ago, worrying about what's right behind that bush is a lot more important than worrying about what might happen three weeks from now.

  James Surowiecki

  Procrastination, Thinking, Years

  "Ask the Author Live: James Surowiecki on Procrastination". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2010.

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• What are we going to do about the injuries to our country still going on right in front of our eyes? It gets me out of bed in the morning. It makes me mad enough to get my blood up and want to get out there with [Mark] Twain and get it said and that is why I still hit the road and go out on the stage and keep working at staying alive.

  Hal Holbrook

  Country, Morning, Eye

  "BWW Interviews: Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

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• As the show's executive producer, I envisioned something akin to "Gilligan's Island" meets Lord of the Flies meets Ten Little Indians mets "The Real World." "Survivor" marks a return to a core element of adventure: staying alive.

  Mark Burnett

  Real, Adventure, Islands

  Mark Burnett, Martin Dugard (2000). “Survivor: The Ultimate Game : the Official Companion Book to the CBS Television Show”, TV Books Incorporated

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• Cancer is cancer. I've got a great life if I can just stay alive.

  Paul Henderson

  Cancer, Alive, Ifs

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• If I had a ghost living on my street. I would try to stay alive, and offer him some meat!

  Trey Anastasio

  Trying, Meat, Alive

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• I don't consider myself a great actress. I'm just trying to stay alive, actually. I think I'm good, and I've learned a lot, certainly, mostly in the theater. I've been sloughed off movies for years. But what can you do? That's life.

  Lauren Bacall

  Thinking, Years, Trying

  "Actress Lauren Bacall reflects on life (w/ audio)". Interview With Maggie Galehouse, www.chron.com. March 11, 2009.

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• I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.

  Chaim Potok

  Reading, Order, Alive

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• Do I miss football in Scotland? It keeps you really alive, that's for sure. Your heartbeat fluctuates. I'm flatlining at the moment which is actually quite nice but you need to go up and down to stay alive.

  Gordon Strachan

  Football, Nice, Scotland

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• If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Children, Responsibility, Alive

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• The university is one of various funding structures by which people who want to do theoretical work stay alive, the same way that people go to grad school, not because they think it's going to change the world but because there's no patron system anymore, and they need some scaffolding of support while they're trying to figure out how they can proceed in their lives. I think that's utterly legit. A lot of our better theorists and thinkers, that's what the university is for them.

  Joshua Clover

  School, Thinking, People

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• Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.

  Bill Watterson

  Art, Moving, Alive

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• And yes, there definitely are many good desires. For example, without the desire for food we would not stay alive. It is when our desire becomes an unquenchable craving or obsession, or causes us to do harm to ourselves or others, that it creates suffering and unhappiness. If you have ever been hurt because you tied your happiness or well-being to a person, place, opinion, self-identity, behavior, or goal, then you have firsthand experience of desire.

  Don Altman

  Hurt, Self, Goal

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