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I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.

Shirley MacLaine

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From a personal perspective, I am disappointed that we have yet to really achieve a full understanding of the origins of life on Earth. What was the spark that, billions of years ago, kickstarted the process of evolution that has brought us life as we know it today? I hope that we will get some answers to that in my lifetime.

Martin Rees

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I've saved every dime I've made in my life.

Chely Wright

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Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There's a lot of story, a lot of character. But plot? Eh, no.

Richard Linklater

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If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

John F. Kennedy

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This idea that light plays an important part in our life is important to me.

James Turrell

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I honestly do think that every character - you pick up the things, little things that you like about them in your life. Especially if you play a character for a long time.

Essie Davis

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I make my life with New York stage actors, and I love them. They're the best actors on planet earth.

Theresa Rebeck

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To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

Marcus Aurelius

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'Life Aquatic' was the first movie I did, and it's been an incredible adventure since then.

Waris Ahluwalia

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When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.

E. Stanley Jones

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And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made.

Tom Scholz

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I don't have the best family life. I'm not going to have a sob story and be like, my parents abandoned me, because they didn't. But they also are not that present. When I'm alone, I'm alone. I don't have anybody to call, and so I have to create meaning from myself.

Constance Wu

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You have to learn to sell yourself. I think people forget they need to look at where else they've really performed in their life, where they've been in a place where they were confident.

Payal Kadakia

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The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

Richard Ford

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I've always loved records, even when I was a kid, my parents would buy me records instead of a lot of the other toys kids got. That's what I wanted. I've been collecting records and DJing my whole life, and I thank my parents for that. They had a big record collection and really imparted the magic of it on me.

Mayer Hawthorne

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Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.

Gus Van Sant

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I love having a man in my life, and being his woman at the end of the day. I know it's a dichotomy.

Eva Mendes

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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Tennessee Williams

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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.

Umberto Eco

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When you're a musician, one of the things that comes to you in the beginning that is quite unexpected is the reaction from your fans, and to the way your music plays an important part in their life in figuring things out.

Rob Halford

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One reason Cassavetes is a hero to me is that his movies grew with him; they reflected the stages of his life. He made movies about where he was at that time. That's what I want to do with my films.

Derek Cianfrance

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There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can't wait to go to work? And when you're ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, 'I can't wait to go home?'

Chuck Schumer

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The surprising thing is that I was not funny in high school. I was always jealous of the funny kids because they always got the girls. I couldn't tell a joke to save my life.

Seann William Scott

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