True Life Quotes - Page 4

• To experience true life, we must continue the Christian journey the same way we began it - by faith.

  Bill Bright

  Christian, Journey, Way

  Bill Bright (2002). “Living Supernaturally in Christ”

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• A curious thing happened: the terrains of England began to impinge on my consciousness, altering, then effacing, the world outside the library window… I was wrapped in a pleasurable dreaminess. I was in a better place. If true life existed elsewhere, then I had almost found it.

  Garry Disher

  Library, World, England

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• The world of men has forgotten the joys of silence, the peace of solitude, which is necessary, to some extent, for the fullness of human living. Man cannot be happy for long unless he is in contact with the springs of spiritual life which are hidden in the depths of his own soul. If man is exiled constantly from his own home, locked out of his spiritual solitude, he ceases to be a true person.

  Thomas Merton

  Happy, Spiritual, Peace

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• This world is not the sum total of God's resources -- on the contrary, it is only the 'dream,' the probation, the prelude of the true world, the true life.

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Dream, World, Resources

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• A man's longest purposes will be his best purposes. It is true, life is short and uncertain; but it is better to live on the short arc of a large circle than to describe the whole circumference of a small circle.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Life Is Short, Men, Circles

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• I enjoy playing real human beings after playing a lot of larger than life characters. I love playing true to life characters and that is what I intend to do for the majority of my career.

  Michael Jai White

  Real, Character, Careers

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• A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, People, Lessons

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.140, Rajpal & Sons

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• I think it's more honest, true to life, to write about serious matters. And also not to do something that's gentle. I like to put, ideally, belly laughs on one side, and really serious moments on the other. So they kind of come up against each other.

  Guy Jenkin

  Writing, Thinking, Laughing

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• Even if you achieve your outer purpose, it will never satisfy you if you haven't found your inner purpose, which is awakening, being present, being in alignment with life. True power comes out of the presence; it is the presence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  True Power, Purpose, Awakening

  "The Awakening of Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Nev Pierce, www.eckharttolle.com.

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• The thing I loved about this movie [Waitress] when I read the script was that it was exactly the kind of film that I love to watch. It's not just funny, it's serious, just when you need it to be and true to life in a way.

  Keri Russell

  Scripts, Serious, Watches

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Philip Glass, like [Virginia] Woolf, is more interested in that which continues than he is in that which begins, climaxes, and ends... Glass and Woolf have both broken out of the traditional realm of the story, whether literary or musical, in favor of something more meditative, less neatly delineated, and more true to life. For me, Glass [finds] in three repeated notes something of [a] rapture of sameness.

  Michael Cunningham

  Glasses, Virginia, Broken

  Source: therumpus.net

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• These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around the edges, because it's true to life.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Knowing, Stand By Me, Littles

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• I think that any story that intends on being culturally authentic and true to life experiences will be a great story. Even if that culture isn't a hip-hop-centric one.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Thinking, Hip Hop, Culture

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• I wish I hadn't worked so hard; I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me; I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings; I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends; and I wish I had let myself be happier. It's an extraordinary list of getting in your own way, isn't it?

  Tom Hiddleston

  Feelings, Wish, Way

  Interview with Benedict Cumberbatch, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2016.

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• I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy.

  India.Arie

  Energy, Force, Rhyme

  Source: www.tv.com

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• A bonus, being a writer, is that the true-life source material is fabulously bizarre. There's so much corruption, violence and free-floating depravity that the well never runs dry, whether you're a novelist, a journalist, or both.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Running, Floating, Bonus

  ""True-life Source Material Is Fabulously Bizarre" - Carl Hiaasen Answers Our Questions about "Razor Girl"". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.omnivoracious.com. September 08, 2016.

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• Most of the jokes that I wrote were funny and there always seems to be an aspect of comedy in my long-form work. I think that's how life is. I think even the more dramatic moments of one's life are often punctuated by very funny comments or situations. I like to say, "Keep your comedy serious and your drama funny, and you'll be pretty true to life."

  Victor Levin

  Drama, Thinking, Serious

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I write about life as it exists within houses and on the streets. And there's nothing, hopefully, in any of my characterizations or in any of my plottings or in any of my valuations that doesn't ring true to life. I'm a novelist. I'm not a theoretician.

  Richard Grossman

  Writing, House, Novelists

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• When I was a teenager, for the most part, I had a really great, easy relationship with my mom, but there are those occasional mom/daughter things that are unavoidable. That's what makes it more upsetting and more true to life. We have great moments, and then we have terrible moments as well.

  Mae Whitman

  Mom, Daughter, Teenager

  "Mae Whitman Interview PARENTHOOD and SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 12, 2010.

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• You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood- and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life.

  Jessamyn West

  Jobs, Simple, Men

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• I think that it would be more true to life, true to the Bible. I wouldn't have a problem with a black man playing Jesus. Being born in that part of the world, he would be more close to being black than white anyway. Although what he did transcended all races.

  Unknown

  Bible, Jesus, Men

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• I like when there are complicated relationships, that there's a little bit of self-serving parts of it as well as a devotion to a person, and that there's a mixture of both in there. It's just I think that's a little more true to life. It's not always purely one way or the other.

  Lisa Kudrow

  Thinking, Self, Mixtures

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The kind of true-life writing that is fun to read - that makes an ally of the reader - is the kind that you are so nervous about putting down on paper that you lock the Word file with a secret password and encrypt it - and all of it.

  Julie Klausner

  Fun, Writing, Secret

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• Clifford paints true-to-life characters with the same gritty touch as the best of Dennis Lehane. Straightforward and edgy, Lamentation gnaws with nail-biting tension on every page. A must-read for contemporary hardboiled mystery fans who appreciate the type of terse dialogue and real life conflicts and settings Elmore Leonard so richly brought to life.

  Robert Dugoni

  Real, Character, Appreciate

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• The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly hamonized; it is true to life.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Thinking, Light

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, Cosimo, Inc.

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