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  • Bojana Novakovic One actor in my life is enough, and that's me. With actors, it's too easy to go into this world of complaining. Someone will always be better, richer, more loved, do more work. Those dynamics don't interest me.
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  • Henry Miller One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay ''in kind'' somewhere else in life.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Bernard Malamud One can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
    Dubins Lives p. 27.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Anish Kapoor One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Robert Bresson One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
    Robert Bresson
    French film director (1901 - 1999)
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  • Sir Walter Scott One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • A. W. Tozer One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Forest Witcraft One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child.
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  • Bobby Sherman One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday.
    Bobby Sherman
    American singer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Brock Lesnar One match that really sticks out for me, there's a bunch of matches with all the guys that I worked with. For me, when I got in the ring, I approached it as being real because I was a real character. I didn't have a gimmick name; I didn't have a gimmick finish.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Henry James One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Blaise Pascal One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Merlin Olsen One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.
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  • Alvin Toffler One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
    Alvin Toffler
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
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  • George Orwell One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
    Motivation and Personality (1954) p. 255.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Bob Richards One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.
    Bob Richards
    American athlete (1926 - )
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