Story Of My Life Quotes - Page 3

• Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Book, Writing, Trying

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Nov 09, 2015

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• All this to say: I am forty-three years old. I may yet live another forty. What do I do with those years? How do I fill them without Lexy? When I come to tell the story of my life, there will be a line, creased and blurred and soft with age, where she stops. If I win the lottery, if I father a child, if I lose the use of my legs, it will be after she has finished knowing me. "When I get to Heaven", my grandmother used to say, widowed at thirty-nine, "your grandfather won't even recognize me.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Children, Father, Grandmother

  Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press

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• My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

  Sidney Poitier

  Stories, Autobiography

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• As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.

  Jodie Foster

  Drama, Directors, Stories

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• All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

  Jodie Foster

  Different, Stories, Way

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• My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.

  Judy Collins

  Life Lesson, Book, Healing

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• Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me. MONSTER.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Monsters, Stories, Sometimes

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• It's the story of my life. You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead. Now, as you look through this document you'll see that I've underlined all the major decisions I ever made to make the stand out. They're all indexed and cross-referenced. See? All I can suggest is that if you take decisions that are exactly opposite to the sort of decisions that I've taken, then maybe you won't finish up at the end of your life" --she paused, and filled her lungs for a good should--"in a smelly old cave like this!

  Douglas Adams

  Taken, Opposites, Decision

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• My first program taught me a lot about the errors that I was going to be making in the future, and also about how to find errors. That's sort of the story of my life, making errors and trying to recover from them. I try to get things correct. I probably obsess about not making too many mistakes.

  Donald Knuth

  Mistake, Errors, Trying

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• Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a complete thing, I have to recall things gone far, gone deep, sunk into this life or that and become part of it; dreams, too, things surrounding me, and the inmates, those old half-articulate ghosts who keep up their hauntings by day and night... shadows of people one might have been; unborn selves.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Night, Hands

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.214, Virginia Woolf

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• The Maze is a painting of the inside of my skull, which I painted when I was in England as a patient in Maudsley and Netherne psychiatric hospitals. It is a story of my life, well in the sense that people tell stories by the fireplace to entertain their guests, trying to make them accept you. In this case I wanted to be accepted, as an interesting specimen.

  William Kurelek

  Skulls, People, Interesting

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• whether they'll write the story of my life as a tragedy or an epic fantasy... I was wondering if it was going to be a kiss at the end, or sad music and a sweeping camera shot over the fields I once roamed freely. I'm hoping for the kiss, but expecting the sweeping camera shot.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Writing, Kissing, Epic

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• About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Overcoming, Stories, May

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

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• Every film I have made has corresponded to a very special moment of my life. I like to think that if someone wanted to reconstruct the story of my life, they can just see my movies and know what I have been through.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Thinking, Special, Stories

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• The stories of wine lords who trade wine on intimidation or food critics who trade free meals for reviews those are the stories of my life. I am telling the stories of my life in a true way.

  Joe Bastianich

  Wine, Meals, Stories

  "Joe Bastianich reveals restaurants' dark secrets, talks lawsuit" by Vidya Rao and Vidya Rao, www.today.com. May 1, 2012.

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• Her father lov'd me; oft invited me;
  Still question'd me the story of my life,
  From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes,
  That I have pass'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Father, Years

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.934

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• I feel as though I am shelved. That I have been given the words to the story of my life, but that I have remained largely unread.

  J.R. Ward

  Stories, Given, Feels

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.1194, Penguin

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• It gets so tiring, this strong-picking-on-the-weak stuff. It was the story of my life -literally- and it seemed to be a big part of the outside world too. I was sick of it, sick of guys like these, stupid and bullying.

  James Patterson

  Bullying, Strong, Stupid

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• It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.

  Helen Keller

  Writing, Kind

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.2, 谷月社

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• Certainly, the history of my life and the works of art which have especially enriched it is precisely that: the depiction or incantation of a handful of metaphors whose spendour rests upon their intonation.

  Michael Ayrton

  Art, Metaphor, Depiction

  Michael Ayrton (1971). “The Rudiments of Paradise: Various Essays on Various Arts”

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• I suppose the story of my life is a search for love, but more than that, I have been looking for a way to repair myself from the damages I suffered early on and to define my obligation, if I had any, to myself and my species.

  Marlon Brando

  Stories, Way, Damage

  New York Times, July 2, 2004.

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• I don't think I can write the story of my life, but I can write the story of my hair.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Writing, Thinking, Hair

  Source: nytlive.nytimes.com

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• The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me - from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I've collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood. The clothes are on mannequins, also on hangers and in boxes with a photo of each piece, and there's a Web site where I can go to look through everything. It's too big - I could never sort through it myself! But these garments tell the stories of my life.

  Lady Gaga

  Fashion, Years, Clothes

  "Lady Gaga On Love and Lies". Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 5, 2014.

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• I appreciate all the people I've met through curling. It's been woven through the story of my life. But that win-at-all-costs attitude is, thankfully, no longer there. Still, when I step on the ice, something goes through my veins. It's showtime. When you've spent over 40 years chasing something, it never leaves you.

  Colleen Jones

  Attitude, People, Appreciate

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• [On being told party guests were ducking for apples:] There, but for a typographical error, is the story of my life.

  Dorothy Parker

  Party, Apples, Errors

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