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Part of my gestalt is that I still feel a little bit like a wallflower. Even in my own life. I talk… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I was so afraid to feel free to enjoy my own life if my mother was sick and suffering everyday of her's.… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer. — Reverend Malcolm Boyd 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 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
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 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
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
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
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
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That catharsis is really the core of the incredibly personal comedy of Louis C.K. or Marc Maron or whatever. And look -… — John Hodgman 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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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 can only speak for myself. But what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own… — Barbara Christian Copy Share Image
I feel that Nagai Kafu was a writer who cold stitch together apparently meaningless moments like these into a lyrical whole, and… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Four years ago on this very day I tried to take my own life. And I said, "Zach, do it in front… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
I can't say that fantasy instead of the 3D world is fine or good, but I know in my own life I… — Jane Alison Copy Share Image
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My very first products were hand-made, one-of-a-kind pins. When I finally realized I could repeat a phrase to make multiples, 'intellectuals gone… — Anne Taintor Copy Share Image
When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
