My Own Life Quotes

I write to save someone's life, probably my own

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

There is something unnatural about marriage. These two people are not going to be the same people in a few years. The trick is to live your own life while sharing the same space.

It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.

Instead of always asking how to get others to approve of you... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause of the crowds or to quietly have my own life?

From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

I can't run a company... I can't even run my own life!

I just love crafting and shaping sounds... I like to breathe my own life into these sounds

I've always felt a confidence in what I do from the simple fact that I know I represent my own life.

I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life.

It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience.

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

My life contains so many other things; I have my children, my grandchildren, my two dogs and a big place in the country. I have my own life.

I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.

You describe your reality in the highest resolution even when it’s a nightmare and in doing so, you live your own life, not a cliche others have formulated for you.

Go ahead without me, I'll find my own way.

I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever.

I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life

My friends would certainly call me out if I didn't say that I like to create a bit of chaos and stir things up in my own life.

I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.

Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.

I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It's based, though, on my own life; I've come too far to be a pessimist.

I learned a great deal about myself, and it forced me to be introspective in a way that I'm not typically, but "reporting" on my own life became emotionally exhausting.

I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.

I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.

In a lot of ways, it was a huge relief, not being a member of a troupe, being able to make your own decisions and kind of live your own life.

I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across me.

The entertainment industry is pretty nuts, and having had that experience outside of it and going to university has really made a big difference. It's important to me to feel like I have my own life.

I'm not conservative, but I am kind of clean living in my own life.

I am a victim of my own behavior.

The message of transformation and how we all can live from our heart, not just from our head, was a very important message for me to learn in my own life.

I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.

I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God?

I don't criticize political or electoral freedom, but capitalism's perversion of the concept: the illusion that I hold the power over my own life.

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into other lives, and I come back to my own with greater contentment.

And I’m drawn to failure. I often write about it, and I’m sympathetic with it, I think, because I feel I’m contending with it constantly in my own life.

There's a competitive fire inside me. I can't get enough. I live to compete daily in my own life.

... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is easy for me to kill, that is because it is difficult for me to die.

In my own life I like to be poised and have a positive outlook on life, and I'm leading by example to my children and people around me.

When I started singing about my life and what I was going through, I felt more confident. It was my own life, I was being myself, I was telling people what was happening.

I'm just singing about my own life. Singing about all the little stories in my life and the things I've been through.

The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And thats a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying.

You know, I consistently change in my own life so the roles I'm suitable for also change, and that's a really nice thing about this profession.

I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.

I found a very diabolical way of making myself suffer - not in the same way [my mother ] was suffering but to prevent me from enjoying my own life.

My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I can write about. There's no point in pretending.

Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.

I want to move on with my life and do something where I get my own voice.