My Own Life Quotes - Page 11

• Is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add color—it’s a pot boiler really, but I think it will show how isolated a person feels when he is suffering a breakdown . . . I’ve tried to picture my world and the people in it as seen through the distorting lens of a bell jar.

  Sylvia Plath

  Thinking, Color, People

  sylvia plath (1971). “the bell jar”

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• Today, I count myself blessed to have become a photographer. To be able to articulate the experiences of the voiceless, to bring their identity to the forefront, gives meaning and purpose to my own life.

  G.M.B. Akash

  Blessed, Giving, Identity

  G. M. B. Akash, Reena Abraham (2006). “First Light: The Photography of G.M.B. Akash”

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• If you are forced to confront your fears on a daily basis, they disintegrate, like illusions when viewed up close. Maybe being always protected made me more fearful, and I would later dip cautiously into the outside world, never allowing myself to be submerged completely, and always jerking back into the familiarity of my own life when my senses were overwhelmed. For years I would stand with a foot in each sphere, drawn to the exotic universe that lay on the other side of the portal, wrenched back by the warnings that sounded like alarm bells in my mind.

  Deborah Feldman

  Fear, Years, Feet

  Deborah Feldman (2012). “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.

  Peter Carey

  Writing, Selfishness, Here And There

  "An Interview With Author Peter Carey". Interview with Ben Evans, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2010.

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• A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

  Emily Giffin

  Book, Choices, Want

  "Book Corner: Emily Giffin's Latest Novel: Where We Belong". Interview with Kristin Buettner, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 9, 2012.

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• I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

  Wally Lamb

  Writing, Opportunity, Thinking

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• I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.

  Tamara Mellon

  Wife, Trophies, Imagine

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• I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.

  Elliot Cowan

  Thinking, Bystanders, Play

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

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• I'm working in a form of cinema that can be described, and has been described, as a diaristic form of cinema. In other words, with material from my own life. I walk through life with my camera, and occasionally I film. I never think about scripts, never think about films, making films.

  Jonas Mekas

  Thinking, Scripts, Cameras

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• I am very active on the Internet. In 2007, I made one film every day and posted it on my website. That was a 365-day project, really exhausting, but I still put a lot of stuff on - from life, friends, my own life.

  Jonas Mekas

  Stuff, Film, Internet

  "Jonas Mekas captures one moment at a time". Interview with Molly Glentzer, www.chron.com. November 15, 2013.

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• When I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot change my wife, my church, or my kids, to say nothing of the world. Try as I might, I have not been able to manufacture outcomes the way I thought I could, either in my own life or other people's.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Kids, People, Wife

  "A Steadfast Lutheran Interview With Pastor Tullian Tchividjian (Part 1 of 2)". Interview with Pastor Matt Richard, steadfastlutherans.org. January 14, 2014.

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• Sometimes I will endanger my own life to pleasure a woman.

  Bret Michaels

  Sometimes, Pleasure, My Own

  Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. June 11, 2009.

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• I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty, it was the first time that I had taken responsibility for my own life.

  Gloria Steinem

  Taken, Responsibility, Giving

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• I'm a minor player in my own life story.

  Tony Wilson

  Player, Stories, Life Story

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• I've found in my own life, if you try to struggle against what the universe is telling you, you set yourself up for more of a battle.

  Michael Stuhlbarg

  Struggle, Battle, Trying

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

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• My friends would certainly call me out if I didn't say that I like to create a bit of chaos and stir things up in my own life.

  Christopher Heyerdahl

  Chaos, Call Me, My Own

  Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com. 2012.

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• Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.

  Tony Hillerman

  Important, My Own

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• You know, I consistently change in my own life so the roles I'm suitable for also change, and that's a really nice thing about this profession.

  Chris Klein

  Nice, Roles, Profession

  "Q&A: Chris Klein on 'American Reunion' and His Hero Harrison". Interview with Elizabeth Durand, www.mtv.com. July 09, 2012.

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• It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Sex, Roles, Literature

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• I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.

  Kiri Te Kanawa

  Hands, Sometimes, Slap

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• I always write things that entertain me, and one of the things that I find really enjoyable to explore is the idea of love. I like looking at my own life and my friends and family and how love changes who you are. It fascinates me.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Writing, Ideas, Family And Friends

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• I have a very hard time with confrontation in my own life, and I end up being way too nice.

  Missi Pyle

  Nice, Hard Times, Way

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• My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.

  Tom Perrotta

  Exciting, Novel, My Own

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• I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.

  Walton Goggins

  Believe, Character, Thinking

  Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.

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• When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have given to parents and grandparents, and of the hopes that I have had, all life weighed in the scales of my own life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wise, Book, Thinking

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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