My Own Life Quotes - Page 13

• A big part of country music is a way of life, at least from my standpoint. That's how I craft my music from my own life experiences.

  Luke Bryan

  Country, Crafts, Way

  "Luke’s Nature". Interview with Andy Walgamott, nwsportsmanmag.com. July 31, 2013.

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• It's been said that the first hour is the rudder of the day. I've found this to be very true in my own life. If I'm lazy or haphazard in my actions during the first hour after I wake up, I tend to have a fairly lazy and unfocused day.

  Steve Pavlina

  Lazy, Wake Up, Firsts

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• After having my baby I felt like I'd been introduced to my life, I slowed down, I paid more attention to simple things, I addressed a few issues in my own life, I even got married, I looked at what was important and what wasn't, and so I used that experience for inspiration.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Baby, Inspiration, Simple

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• What that’s allowed me to do is have a vantage point about my own life that's accessible to people still. I could see a guy walking down the street and be like, Even though I'm famous, I got more in common with this guy than, like, Brad Pitt.

  Dave Chappelle

  People, Guy, Common

  "Dave Chappelle Is Back (This Time We're 100% Sure It's Maybe Totally for Real)". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. November 12, 2014.

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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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• I am in an extended self-directed course of study. That is, I am in control of my own life.

  Amber Benson

  Self, Study, Courses

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• I love efficiencies and I love solving big problems, and I love working with people who create efficiencies. I love creating efficiencies in my own life on a day-to-day basis.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Creating, People, Problem

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• I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant, the key to everything else.

  Sarah Dessen

  Writing, Keys, Found

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• Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would.

  Phil Klay

  Issues, Events, Tools

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• Imagine if you would, what would happen to your sorrows and fears if God Himself, the maker of heaven and earth, the Father of our Lord, the sovereign One, were to come to you, wrap you in His almighty arms and say to you, 'I love you with a perfect love, exactly as I love My Son. I will never stop loving you, no matter what. I am completely, utterly for you. I promise, on My own life, that I will do you good every day of your life. And because I control all things, that means My good is all you will ever experience from this time forward.'

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Father, Love You, Mean

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• I know that sometimes in my own life I really felt like killing people.

  Gaspar Noe

  People, Sometimes, Killing

  Source: www.freepatentsonline.com

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• Mindfulness is attentiveness, moment to moment. What's happening right now and what's coming up in me in response to what's happening right now. Importantly, this is in the service of being able to choose wisely so that I avoid complicating my own life and the lives of others.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Mindfulness, Able, Moments

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• Generally, I start by observing the existing and popular narratives in my social spheres and media, and the pressures I face in my own life experiences. As someone who is "newly" trans, I am constantly thinking about what the dominant narratives are around transness, how my work can push against these narratives, and how it already falls into these traps.

  Vivek Shraya

  Fall, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't reverberate to victimhood, probably because of my own life. I refused to become a victim myself, so it's not one of my big stories.

  Kevin Starr

  Stories, Victim, Bigs

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I learned a great deal about myself, and it forced me to be introspective in a way that I'm not typically, but "reporting" on my own life became emotionally exhausting.

  Andy Cohen

  Way, Introspective, Deals

  "Watch What Happens...When Anderson Cooper interviews Andy Cohen". Interview With Anderson Cooper, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 25, 2016.

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• I feel that Nagai Kafu was a writer who cold stitch together apparently meaningless moments like these into a lyrical whole, and has enhanced my ability to do the same with my own life.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Together, Stitches, Cold

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst.

  Lionel Blue

  Sorry, People, Evil

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• Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

  Neil Simon

  Writing, Like Being Alone, Meditation

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• It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just how. The only possible answers are religious. . . . I find a need for God in the universe and in my own life.

  Arthur Leonard Schawlow

  Religious, Science, Design

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• I can only speak for myself. But what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own life. And I mean that literally. For me literature is a way of knowing that I am not hallucinating, that whatever I feel/know is.

  Barbara Christian

  Writing, Mean, Order

  Barbara Christian (2010). “New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000”, p.49, University of Illinois Press

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• How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths.

  Amy Tan

  Motivation, Inspiration, Thinking

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• Even in my own life, there are memories I have that are difficult to explain - happenings that are so odd and unaccountably weird, that it is difficult to imagine they were not the result of prolonged and frequent contact with aliens throughout my life.

  John Hodgman

  Memories, Motivation, Inspiration

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• Since no man ever can, or could, live by himself and for himself alone, the destinies of thousands of other people were bound to be affected, some remotely, but some very directly and near-at-hand, by my own choices and decisions and desires, as my own life would also be formed and modified according to theirs.

  Thomas Merton

  Destiny, Men, Hands

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• I felt like a Tinker toy kid building my own self out of one of those toy building sets; for as she laid her life before me, I reassembled the tableau of her words like a picture puzzle, and as I did, so my own life was rebuilt.

  James McBride

  Kids, Self, Toys

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• From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.

  Ella Maillart

  Wind, Desire, Tides

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