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I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.
– Alexander Payne
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I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.
– Ella Maillart
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I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.
– Hillary Clinton
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
– Ulrich Beck
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I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.
– J. J. Abrams
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I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference points actually help, and you realise that's what myths are for. It's for human beings to process their experience in extremis.
– Michael Sheen
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I find happiness comes from numerous sources in my life. Most often, the happy moments I cherish most are quiet moments with my wife and family back home in Nova Scotia.
– Peter MacKay
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I filmed 'Albatross' before I got 'Downton.' It's a coming-of-age movie about this girl who leaps into this family's life, like a whirlwind. She's ballsy and brash and wonderful, it was such an amazing character to play.
– Jessica Brown Findlay
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I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
– Utada Hikaru
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I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled, and thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.
– Tiger Woods
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I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about.
– Tony Kushner
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I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.
– Ringo Starr
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I feel like I've lived quite a sheltered life, like my mom and dad were quite protective of me.
– Leona Lewis
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I feel like I'm really blessed and lucky that I have a very good social life outside of the gym, and I have a really amazing family. My parents are so supportive. I have a younger brother and two younger sisters, and they're really awesome. So I feel like I get the best of both worlds.
– Aly Raisman
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I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.
– Rick Schroder
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I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service.
– Hillary Clinton
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I feel I'd like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world.
– Susannah York
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I feel an obligation to set the record straight. Actors that say they're affected by something, that it changes their life, that they take it home with them, they're just trying to get nominated for an Oscar!
– Joaquin Phoenix
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I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.
– Maggie Q
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I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.
– Alfonso Ribeiro
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I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive.
– Joan Rivers
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
– Barry Hannah
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I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.
– Jennifer Weiner
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I don't wilt easily, and a director can't either. He's the captain of the ship and he's got to be in total control. He also has to have respect for the people he's working for. From being an actor and being on a set my whole life, I'm very comfortable there. And I'm not afraid.
– Ricky Schroder
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I don't want to wake up and not truly be enjoying my life and these amazing things around me.
– Leann Rimes
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I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.
– Jesse Ventura
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I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.
– Paula Deen
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I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.
– Rosemarie DeWitt
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I don't want to imitate life in movies I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.
– Pedro Almodovar
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I don't want to be reincarnated, that's for sure. When you've had rewarding experiences in your life - a loving family, friends - you don't need additional reassurances that you're going to do something with a new cast of characters. I'd just as soon pass.
– Lewis Thomas
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I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.
– Patrick Swayze
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I don't trust what this life has given me.
– Dennis Rodman
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I don't trust anybody in my life except my mother and my dogs.
– Cheryl Cole
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I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.
– Elizabeth Gilbert
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I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other we have fun together - it's great.
– Mary J. Blige
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I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.
– Rashida Jones
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I don't think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.
– Hilary Swank
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I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.
– Tim Robbins
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I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way.
– Jimmy Carr
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I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
– Tom Petty
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I don't think I've had a holiday in my entire life that wasn't about my dad's work.
– Kat Dennings
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I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.
– Steve Jobs
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I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.
– Lady Gaga
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I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.
– Hillary Clinton
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I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.
– Jean-Michel Basquiat
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I don't think a show's ever changed networks in the middle of the season before, but it was cool because they gave us those extra couple years of life that was necessary to get us to syndication.
– Donal Logue
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I don't see myself as famous at all so I'm continuing my life as normal.
– Ashley Madekwe
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I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest.
– Eva Longoria
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I don't really talk about my personal life. It's a strange and funny and weird thing. Sometimes you have a conversation with someone and the paparazzi snaps a picture of you and people decide you're dating. If I try to answer everything people say, I would be up all night.
– Tracee Ellis Ross
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I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.
– Jhonen Vasquez
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I don't need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense.
– Cory Monteith
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I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.
– Jean Paul Gaultier
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I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.
– Meryl Streep
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I don't know how the poor farmers deal with such situations in real life. It's really sad.
– Sanjay Dutt
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I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
– Zona Gale
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I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.
– Ann Brashares
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I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.
– Michael Landon
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I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.
– Jack Black
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I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary.
– Michael J. Fox
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I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.
– Jean Claude Van Damme
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I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.
– Wallace Shawn
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I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.
– Todd Gitlin
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I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.
– Ellen Pompeo
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I don't deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, you lose a lot of people in your life, and that's one thing I am constantly working on - pain management.
– James Belushi
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I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.
– Ed Westwick
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I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.
– Deion Sanders
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I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.
– Joel Osteen
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I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.
– Hedy Lamarr
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I don't believe in fear - I live my life without regrets.
– Puff Daddy
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I don't always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with my life!
– Liz Phair
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I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.
– Bob Geldof
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I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time around, I'm going to have to pay for this one, am I not?
– Vanessa Paradis
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I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age.
– Rosanna Arquette
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I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.
– Dolly Parton
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I do not see my family life in any way, shape, or form as an opportunity for a photo.
– Shania Twain
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I do not regret one moment of my life.
– Lillie Langtry
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I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.
– James Cash Penney
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I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what's the point in life?
– Shahrukh Khan
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I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.
– Ian MacKaye
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I do believe that belief is the most powerful thing we have in this world. So, if we believe in something enough. And we have faith, we can make it a reality. That is basically the basis of my entire career and my entire life.
– Corey Feldman
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I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.
– Jane Smiley
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I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.
– Cate Blanchett
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I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.
– David McCallum
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I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.
– Brit Marling
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I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
– Steve Jobs
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I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.
– Marguerite Moreau
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I didn't know this about myself, but when 'Pirates of the Caribbean' came out I realised that I didn't enjoy a huge amount of recognition. I didn't react to it well, but I think life is about finding out who you are and what you like. So I started doing independent movies and art-house films instead.
– Keira Knightley
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I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life.
– Dennis Miller
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I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more.
– Nick Clegg
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I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.
– Chad Lowe
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I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.
– Luke Ford
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I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.
– Joseph Rotblat
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
– B. F. Skinner
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I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I'd rather live my private life than read about it.
– Brittany Murphy
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I did every diet: Atkins. Cabbage-soup diet. Dean Ornish. But I couldn't live the rest of my life like a rabbit.
– Mike Huckabee
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I did Albert Hall, I got to play the Hall of Fame with Prince. So I've done that kind of stuff for ages. It wasn't until after we finished working on Brainwash, my dad's album after he died, then it was like 'That phase is over in my life now, now we can get on with our music, with our band.'
– Dhani Harrison
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I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.
– Treat Williams
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I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
– Audrey Hepburn
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I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.
– Luke Ford
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I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.
– Clay Aiken
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