Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I'm away for much of my own life. I want to be better at… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
What I've seen in my own life is that when I get something important done it's because of a lot of other… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future.… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
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I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
It happened the way I come up with any story, which is that I took elements of my own life and put… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
I'm probably more personal when I'm acting than at any other time. More open, more direct. Because it allows me to be… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is attentiveness, moment to moment. What's happening right now and what's coming up in me in response to what's happening right… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
I've always been obsessed with things that are half animal and half human - like mermaids and Minotaurs - because they are… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
I’ve taken on some of the emotional weight of the stories I’ve worked on. I was writing about a very difficult time… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just… — Arthur Leonard Schawlow Copy Share Image
You have to realize: OK, I don't know how to solve a political problem, I don't know how to solve the pollution… — Jewel Copy Share Image
The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
When I'm following what a character does in a book I don't have to think about my own life. Where I am.… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
Imagine if you would, what would happen to your sorrows and fears if God Himself, the maker of heaven and earth, the… — R. C. Sproul, Jr Copy Share Image
People can glum onto all sorts of things. And some might use this in that way instead of taking personal responsibility for… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
When envy lies within a woman's heart it cuts into her soul & gives her a toxic spirit. It is truly something… — Bindu Envy In Women Copy Share Image
When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
In stories, everything has to have clear consequences and everything has to focus to the end. Everything at the end will give… — Jaco Van Dormael Copy Share Image
Faith in ourselves will do everything. I have experienced it in my own life, and am still doing so; and as I… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I once thought that if I could ask God one question, I would ask how the universe began, because once I knew… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Even in my own life, there are memories I have that are difficult to explain - happenings that are so odd and… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No, I'll take responsibility for my own life, I am going to make a decision. And you know, to this day, I… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I guess in my own life, privacy, anonymity, and the mystery of being lost are important. I also feel that people are… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I learned a great deal about myself, and it forced me to be introspective in a way that I'm not typically, but… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived… — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
I think expression is at it's best when it comes from an honest place, so I always try to use my own… — Kate Brown Copy Share Image
You may be asking yourselves, 'Who is this man standing before us?' i would like to reply to that question with something… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about nonviolence. I believe that human life is a very special gift… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
I base everything on my own life experiences as a female. I start from there, and then I look for characters and… — Anna Biller Copy Share Image
I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
I would now put all my heart with the Tibetan people and the Tibetan cause, but not at the expense of the… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I always felt that one day I would have to make the change in my own life, bite the bullet and see… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
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