My Own Life Quotes - Page 12

• I had no idea what time I’d left, how I’d gotten home, who’d been up here, and how long he, she, or they had stayed. Another night, added to the hundreds that had gone before, shrouded in mystery. Really, when you thought about it, it was creepy. My own life was a secret to me.

  Heather King

  Home, Night, Ideas

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• Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.

  Hu Shih

  Light, Vegetables, Oil

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• There is nothing easy about becoming conscious. My own life was much easier before I knew about the deeper meaning of choice, the power of choice that accompanies taking responsibility. Abdicating responsibility to an outside source can seem, at least for the moment, so much easier. Once you know better, however, you can't get away with kidding yourself for long.

  Caroline Myss

  Responsibility, Long, Choices

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing”, p.257, Harmony

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• As far as my own life goes, I don't buy into the Hollywood scene.

  Steve Schirripa

  Hollywood, Scene, My Own

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• I wouldn't change a thing in my own life, but I'd like to go back in time anyway though, just to some eras that I wish I'd lived in, like the '60s. I'd love to have been in London in the '60s, partying away.

  Gemma Arterton

  Party, Wish, London

  "Gemma Arterton Falls for The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" by Jami Philbrick, movieweb.com. May 15, 2010.

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• It is in community that we come to see God in the other. It is in community that we see our own emptiness filled up. It is community that calls me beyond the pinched horizons of my own life, my own country, my own race, and gives me the gifts I do not have within me.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Country, Race, Filled Up

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• I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.

  Alex Campbell

  Causes, Motive, My Own

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• If that is the law of life we must work it out in daily exisitance. Wherever there are wars, wherever we are confronted with an opponent, conquer by love. I have found that the certain law of love has answered in my own life as the law of destruction has never done.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Law, Done

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• Sometimes when a character in a novel is difficult for me to enter, I sue something in myself or in my own life as a doorway into that character's mind and emotions.

  Marge Piercy

  Character, Mind, Doorways

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• I had to be my own person and live my own life if I wanted to be happy, and I just did it.

  Iris Apfel

  Wanted, Persons, My Own

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and for months or sometimes years I'll exhaust all of my emotional reaction to this issue by making it enormous on the page.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Emotional, Years, Issues

  Source: www.nightmare-magazine.com

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• I quit because that thing inside of me that was driving me to drink that way was causing me so much pain that I was starting to get afraid for my own life, and my own health. It wasn't necessarily one instance. It was a lot that had piled up.

  Joe Manganiello

  Pain, Way, Driving

  Source: www.elle.com

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• And it's kind of my own fault too, in the sense that I've used my own life as a literary device so much. I think people feel very comfortable reviewing the idea of me, as opposed to what I've actually written. I find that most of the time, when people write about one of my books, they're really just writing about what they think I may or may not represent, as sort of this abstract entity. Is that unfair? Not really. If I put myself in this position where I'm going to kind of weave elements of memoir into almost everything, well, I suppose that's going to happen.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• You know what needs to be done when you're a writer. You know what the job is, particularly if you're an African American writer, or if you deal with people, or if your subjects are poor people or people who need voice. So you don't really need to know whether or not you are doing the right thing. What you have to be wary of if you're doing the right thing to the right level that will surpass your own life. I'm hoping that my work will surpass my own life.

  James McBride

  Jobs, Voice, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.

  Paul Auster

  Character, Thinking, Projects

  Paul Auster, James M. Hutchisson (2013). “Conversations with Paul Auster”, p.196, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I think we're skating on surfaces. I know it in my own life - and I think that is where this frustration comes in. It's not the place we want to be, but it's the place our society requires that we be. There is no fulfillment there. So we become numbed, we become drugged, we become less than we are. And I think that we know that.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Frustration, Thinking, Skating

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• I just try to use my own life to build a human song: something that people can relate to in some way. It's not like the psychiatrist's couch or anything.

  Iron & Wine

  Song, People, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Four years ago on this very day I tried to take my own life. And I said, "Zach, do it in front of your co-workers and end the misery." I don't know how many of you ever tried to jump off of a Pizza Hut, but you'll just get a sprained ankle out of the deal. Then you'll have to go back inside, and serve crazy bread.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Crazy, Humor

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• I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Writing, Mean, Details

  "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Continental Divides". Interview with Joseph Klarl, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 14, 2013.

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• I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself.

  Pat Conroy

  Stories, Use, World

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• Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality. It is not a dark thing in life; it prepares you for the graceful things that happen in your life. It gives me a license to make any kind of picture I want with great courage.

  Keith Carter

  Photography, Dark, Thinking

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• [Shwing] the really naked stuff I've dealt with in my own life, my own therapy and relationships - for me it just feels like a film I'm really proud of.

  Noah Baumbach

  Naked, Proud, Stuff

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Dealing with my own life takes priority over other people dealing with my life.

  Bob Dylan

  People, Priorities, My Own

  "Bob Dylan Not Like a Rolling Stone Interview". "Spin" Magazine Interview with Scott Cohen, www.interferenza.com. December 1985.

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• My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I can write about. There's no point in pretending.

  Imelda May

  Writing, Mean, Pretending

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• Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel.

  David Macaulay

  Needs, Bliss, Novel

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