Life Story Quotes
147 Life Story quotes by 126 unique authors
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Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
— John Barth
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I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell…
— Bill Bryson
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A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.
— Mitch Albom
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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
— Coco Chanel
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We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.
— Oliver Sacks
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Life is like a B-picture script. It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.
— Kirk Douglas
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In the face of events that threaten to overwhelm our lives, storytelling gives us a way of reclaiming ourselves and reaffirming our connections with other…
— Victoria Alexander
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I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories without me. We're tied together forever. This is a…
— Michael Irvin
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I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your boyfriend or your…
— Toni Morrison
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As much as I do love real-life stories they can often make you hurt in a way I'd rather not hurt. . . . For…
— Henry Cavill
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Be the hero of your own life story.
— Gerard Butler
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You write your life story by the choices you make,
— Helen Mirren
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That has been my entire life story. Running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated. The acceptance…
— Rem Koolhaas
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I would say I'm an inspirational guidelines book. You can take my life story or scenarios or songs and relate to them and apply them…
— Chris Brown
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Bernard Harris is a great example of the American success story. In Dream Walker he describes how he is trying to pass on his experience…
— Craig R. Barrett
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We must keep in mind that only a part of memory can be translated into the language-based packets of information people use to tell their…
— Daniel J. Siegel
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The life story of the five main characters and the secondary characters around them allows Jonathan Franzen to present the full impetus and extent of…
— Unknown Author
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Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the…
— George Jones
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When you are eighty years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story,…
— Jeff Bezos
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Life isn’t happening to you; life is responding to you. Life is your call! Every area of your life is your call. You are the…
— Rhonda Byrne
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their…
— Bill Harley
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One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and…
— Helen Keller
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Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that is…
— Judith Krantz
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Alphabet Juice is the book Roy Blount was born to write, which considering his prodigious talent, is saying a lot. Did you know that the…
— Cathleen Schine
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History repeats itself only in that, from afar, we all seem to lead exactly the same life. We are all born; we all spend time…
— Edward Bloor
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126 authors contributed a total of 147 Life Story Quotes, led by these top contributors: