Life Story Quotes - Page 5

• There are many animation films out there for teens, tweens and family but there are not that many real life stories.

  Sophie Nelisse

  Real, Tweens, Stories

  Source: www.kidzworld.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I liked to explore different arts. But when I started acting, I knew this was the medium I want to be in for the rest of my life. Stories onscreen affect me the most.

  Moran Atias

  Art, Acting, Different

  5 Copy quote

• The important thing is to tell yourself a life story in which you, the hero, are primarily a problem solver rather than a helpless victim. This is well within your power, whatever fate might have dealt you.

  Martha Beck

  Hero, Fate, Important

  Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.96, Harmony

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• My life story is something obviously that belongs to me very personally. And the fact of the matter is that I had choices and chances and opportunities that were provided to me, based on the way I was able to direct my own decision-making. And what I'm working to fight for is to make sure that all women have the ability to do that.

  Barack Obama

  Fighting, Opportunity, Choices

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The reliance on stereotypes is in part the result of a structural problem within the media. Most newspapers have a business beat, with a number of highly trained journalists who know how to cover companies, trading, the markets and so on. But almost none have labor reporters anymore, and to my knowledge, none have full-time poverty-beat correspondents. And all of this helps to render invisible the lives and the life stories of tens of millions of Americans.

  Sasha Abramsky

  Helping, Problem, Stereotype

  Source: www.truth-out.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have stood in a bar in Lambourn and been offered, in the space of five minutes, a poached salmon, a leg of a horse, a free trip to Chantilly, marriage, a large unsolicited loan, ten tips for a ten-horse race, two second-hand cars, a fight, and the copyright to a dying jockey's life story.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Horse, Fighting, Race

  17 Copy quote

• 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

  Movie, Inspiring, Life Is Like

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  42 Copy quote

  Show source

• My name is Daniel, and this is the first volume of my life story, which, hopefully, will be a very long and distinguished one. Who should you read it? Very good question. Maybe because this is your planet, and you have a right to know what's actually happening on it.

  James Patterson

  Names, Long, Good Questions

  "The Dangerous Days of Daniel X". Book by James Patterson, September 4, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 to your everyday life.

  Chris Brown

  Song, Book, Everyday

  4 Copy quote

• Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Taken, Eye, Vision

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.63, Verso

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.

  Patti Smith

  Daughter, Mother, Stars

  7 Copy quote

• 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 day to remember for the rest of our lives.

  Michael Irvin

  Sports, Football, Writing

  10 Copy quote

• 'Brooklyn's Finest,' this is the kind of movie that's why I want to be an actor, to tell real-life stories. This is where I feel my job is, to interpret life.

  Ethan Hawke

  Jobs, Real, Stories

  "Q&A – Ethan Hawke Calls Brooklyn’s Finest the Kind of Movie That Made Him Become an Actor". "AMC" Interview, www.amc.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'd love to have a program like 'Dr. Laura.' I studied psychology at the University of Miami, and when I rode the bus home from school, perfect strangers would strike up conversations with me and end up telling me their life stories. I think they could sense that I was studying to help people. That, or I have a face like a priest.

  Gloria Estefan

  School, Home, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• 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 grandma... I'm getting a little tired of 'my life story as fiction'. Please don't tell me about your little life - is there nothing larger? More important?

  Toni Morrison

  Grandma, Writing, Tired

  5 Copy quote

• 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 of certain realities doesn’t preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Running, Acceptance, Reality

  19 Copy quote

• 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 and success to the next generation -- we can all learn from his real life story.

  Craig R. Barrett

  Dream, Real, Trying

  4 Copy quote

• And just like that, I'd been assessed and judged. Nurse Fashoda didn't know the first thing about me but she'd taken one look at my face and now she reckoned she knew my whole life story -- what had gone before and what was yet to come.

  Malorie Blackman

  Taken, Nurse, Looks

  Malorie Blackman (2007). “Knife Edge”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• People only know what you tell them.And it was true.People gave out their whole life stories to anyone and everyone without a second's thought.Stand at a bus stop,sit in a strange pub,get banged up,and someone would always give you their life story.It was as if they were trying to prove they existed

  Martina Cole

  Bus Stops, People, Giving

  Martina Cole (2008). “Close”, p.36, Hachette UK

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Identity, Stories, Whole Life

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Snuff”, p.25, Random House

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Such was the love of this grandson for his grandmother that two years after the death of his mother, when she herself fell gravely ill, he vowed to her that someday he would try to tell the world her life story. 'But why?' she asked humbly. 'I'm no one, just a girl from the coast' 'But you are everyone, Grandma,' the young Pramoedya told her. 'You are all the people who have ever had to fight to make this life their own.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Girl, Mother, Grandma

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Willem Samuels (2002). “The girl from the coast: a novel”, Hyperion Books

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Writing, Space, Bars

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.176, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Two, Yellow, People

  8 Copy quote

• And of the Witch? In the life of a Witch, there is no "after", in the "ever after" of a Witch there is no "happily"; in the story of a Witch, there is no afterword. Of that part that is beyond the life story, beyond the story of the life, there is-alas, or perhaps thank mercy-no telling. She was dead, dead, and gone, and all that was left of her was the carapace of her reputation for malice.

  Gregory Maguire

  Wicked, Gone, Stories

  6 Copy quote

• I had to stop traveling alone because I missed so many planes. When somebody runs up to you in the airport and begins to tell you their life story, you can't say, 'Excuse me, boo,' as they're weeping on your bosom.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Running, Airports, Up To You

  4 Copy quote