Life Story Quotes - Page 6

• I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.

  Truman Capote

  Dollars, Stories, Pay

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.

  Gloria Steinem

  Justice, People, Sitting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The second volume of Reiner Stach's epic biography of Franz Kafka . . . [is] a tangle of counter-grained and often under-sourced life stories, but reading Stach's magnificent narrative (wonderfully translated by Shelley Frisch) straight through brings death, not life, to the forefront. Stach is a compulsively readable writer. . . . [A]s in the previous volume, the prose in The Years of Insight is supple and very appealingly complex--all of which, once again, is perfectly rendered by Frisch.

  Steve Donoghue

  Reading, Epic, Years

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• As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing for instance. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks. Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences. So, if we've shared many experiences, then it probably has something to do with power or politics, and if we unify and act together, then we can make a change.

  Gloria Steinem

  Writing, Justice, People

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

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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

  Uplifting, Should Have, People

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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 the world picture of the West at the end of the 20th century.

  Batya Gur

  Character, Stories, World

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• Disney will never make a movie about my life story, and that's a shame--I'd make a really cute animated creature.

  Kate Bornstein

  Cute, Stories, Shame

  Kate Bornstein (2012). “A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology, and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today”, p.17, Beacon Press

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• It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib.

  Bill Gosper

  Stories, Newton, Mathematician

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• I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.

  Elvis Presley

  Bores You, Stories, Too Much

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• Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.

  Anne Fadiman

  Book, Stories, Refrigerators

  Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life story.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Philosophy, Expression, Medicine

  Gabrielle Roth, John Loudon (1998). “Maps to Ecstasy: A Healing Journey for the Untamed Spirit”, p.29, New World Library

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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 life stories to others. Learning to be open to many layers of communication is a fundamental part of getting to know another person's life.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Memories, Communication, People

  Daniel J. Siegel (2015). “The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are”, p.67, Guilford Publications

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• To be ourselves we must have ourselves – possess, if need be re-possess, our life-stories. We must “recollect” ourselves, recollect the inner drama, the narrative, of ourselves. A man needs such a narrative, a continuous inner narrative, to maintain his identity, his self.

  Oliver Sacks

  Drama, Men, Self

  Oliver Sacks (2014). “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic”, p.101, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mean, Together, Stories

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Tent”, p.9, Anchor

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• I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.

  Donald Miller

  Listening, Stories, Reflecting

  Twitter post from Nov 19, 2015

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• One has to look at my life story to see what I've done. I've paid a heavy price that many people don't realize.

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  People, Looks, Stories

  "Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - profile" by Tamasin Ford, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2011.

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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 people-those who listen to our stories and, by doing so, bear witness with us.

  Victoria Alexander

  Grief, Giving, People

  Victoria Alexander (1991). “In the wake of suicide: stories of the people left behind”, Jossey-Bass

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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 average person can follow. Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.

  George Jones

  Country, Real, Simple

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• My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Stories, Mets

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.130, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Happiness, Graduation

  "Contemporary Quotations‎". Book by James Beasley Simpson, 1954.

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• Once man has lost the fundamental orientation which unifies his existence, he breaks down into the multiplicity of his desires; in refusing to await the time of promise, his life-story disintegrates into a myriad of unconnected instants.

  Pope Francis

  Men, Promise, Desire

  "Lumen Fidei". Book by Pope Francis, 2013.

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• I often wonder if you wrote your memoir today, if your life story would be lived on the edge of possibility, if you held wonder in one hand and courage in the other and truly believed that anything was possible.

  Jean Houston

  Hands, Would Be, Stories

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• The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.

  Barbara Deming

  Peace, Real, Diversity

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