Quotes with life-time

Quotes 3521 till 3540 of 6709.

  • Anne Dudley My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do.
    Anne Dudley
    English composer, keyboardist and conductor (1956 - )
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  • Olive Schreiner My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • Bradford Dillman My feeling is that you should try to do the things you enjoy most in life. I chose acting as a career because I enjoyed it then as I do now. The only question for me then was, 'Can I make a living at it?'
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch My first agent dissuaded me from calling myself 'Cumberbatch.' I had six months of not very productive time with her, so I changed agents. The new one said, 'Why aren't you using your family name? It's a real attention-grabber.' I worried, 'How much is it going to cost to put my name in lights?' But then I decided that's not my problem.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard My first time I directed a play was 'No Exit,' a play set in a subway.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Jim Carrey My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
    Jim Carrey
    Canadian-American actor, comedian, impressionist and screenwriter (1962 - )
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  • Bernadette Devlin My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.
    Bernadette Devlin
    Irish civil rights activist (1947 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson My goals in football helped make me disciplined and focused in all areas of my life.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Philip Roth My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets — no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!
    Source: Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Barbara Corcoran My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Bob Ainsworth My heroes are the non-commissioned officers. If I had another life that's what I'd be - a regimental sergeant major or a similar rank. That's where the spirit of the armed forces is.
    Bob Ainsworth
    British Labour Party politician (1952 - )
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  • Barbara Corcoran My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Brene Brown My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Bell Hooks My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Brandon Sanderson My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.
    Brandon Sanderson
    American author of epic fantasy and science fiction (1975 - )
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  • George Foreman My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.
    George Foreman
    American professional boxer (1949 - )
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  • Bertrand Piccard My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean... For me, adventure and exploration is something in the blood.
    Bertrand Piccard
    Swiss psychiatrist (1958 - )
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  • Bill Walton My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country. I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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