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I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.
- Quiara Alegria Hudes
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It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.
- Nevil Shute
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Film is a living, breathing thing. It's very delicate, and you have to listen and watch for what it tells you.
- Rob Marshall
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
- Bahman Ghobadi
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Seeing that 'Project Runway' sign at the end of the runway just made me, like, realize, like, 'Wow, I'm on this show. I'm living every designer's dream right now.'
- Ashley Nell Tipton
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There are positives to moving around and changing companies: you put things in perspective; you can compare living and working conditions. Living in one city, you tend to take things for granted; your view is much more narrow. In Europe, a dancer can leave for a year and still keep her original contract.
- Carla Korbes
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The hardest thing about living in Canberra is that almost everyone who doesn't live here asks: 'Why on earth would you live in Canberra?' Loudly, and in a way they would never use to discuss anywhere else. And they never listen to the answer.
- Judy Horacek
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In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.
- Stephen Gardiner
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Because Bollywood reflects society, we are all living in a society. We are not a special entity. So whatever prejudices society has for us, we carry into the films.
- Richa Chadha
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We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.
- Jane Fonda
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I've grown up very much living my life very visibly. I've never really hidden who I am.
- Boy George
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The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.
- Dalton Trumbo
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Living this life in the same sorta way that Kerouac lived, you get to hang out at shows and drink and you're able to not really face reality and adulthood the way most of my friends are.
- Ben Gibbard
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Living, it's awful for me.
- Robert Smith
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In India, people tend to get categorised by their job or caste or colour. But in Kamathipura, despite their horrid living, it was truly eye-opening how kind and sensitive these women are.
- Sobhita Dhulipala
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The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'
- Neale Donald Walsch
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Film is a lark to me - thank God I don't have to make a living from it.
- Huey Lewis
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Islam is a way of living rather than a way of thinking.
- Alija Izetbegovic
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I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I am and what I do for a living, I asked my oldest daughter, 'What do you think about Daddy coming back?' And she said, 'I didn't think you were done. I want you to win the Super Bowl.'
- Randy Moss
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I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
- Alain de Botton
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Living in lawlessness gives you lawlessness.
- Vikram Bhatt
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I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour.
- Peter Wright
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I didn't want to put myself in a position where I was living so expensively that if something happened next year or two years from now and I wasn't making the same money, I couldn't afford my lifestyle.
- Kandi Burruss
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I always considered trying to make a living playing music. But it was always really clear to me, at the various stages in my life, that it really wasn't a possibility unless some phenomenal thing happened.
- Tracy Chapman
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Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.
- Michelangelo Antonioni
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Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.
- Quentin Crisp
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If you're looking to make a basic living selling and playing your music, the Internet is all you really need.
- Kina Grannis
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Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.
- Sylvia Earle
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I hate a word like 'pets': it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.
- Elizabeth Jennings
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Many developing countries continue to be burdened by high percentages of their population living in poverty. Yet, instead of addressing this root cause of conflict, many states, ironically, increase their military might in order to control increasingly desperate populations.
- Óscar Arias
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Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them.
- Emanuel Swedenborg
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I haven't become an American! Having a house in LA is just where the house is. It's just a convenience thing living there. I carry Wales around inside me. I'd consider moving back there one day. I never really left.
- Tom Jones
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So when I realised I could sing for a living - do what I loved and be paid for it - I thought, 'This is unbelievable. Unbelievable!' And that feeling has never left me.
- Tom Jones
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I don't think you can sing about certain things when you're a teen-ager or in your early 20s, because you haven't lived long enough. So I think living gives you character and that comes out in your voice.
- Tom Jones
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I think the age we're living in is starting to get scary.
- Paula Patton
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With the exception of autotrophic bacteria, the green, or chlorophyll-bearing, plants are the only living forms on this planet capable of synthesizing organic matter out of inorganic elements and simple compounds.
- Selman Waksman
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It has been recognized since the dawn of microbiology that the soil is inhabited by a living microscopic population which is responsible for the numerous reactions that take place in the soil and that affect the life and economy of man in many ways.
- Selman Waksman
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I talk to women for a living. It's pretty much what I do with my day.
- Tracy McMillan
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Americans generally regard themselves as belonging to an exceptional nation. And in terms of living in a religiously tolerant and enormously diverse country, Americans can certainly take some justified pride.
- Peter Bergen
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There's nothing that everyone likes in the world. People have different opinions. It's just the way of living. I know that there will be differences.
- Miyavi
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I was very, very young, living in India. I'd been put to bed in the afternoon, and I had that lovely feeling you have when you're about to nod off. I remember the yellow curtains of the room blowing in the wind and feeling blissfully happy and content.
- Diana Rigg
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It's impossible to make a living in the arts unless you make a fortune. There's almost no in-between. Writers are either broke or rolling in it. Oddly, you can't tell them apart.
- Anthony McCarten
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We're living in extraordinary times, all the time. The issues that assail us are perennial. They haven't changed since the Greeks picked up a pen.
- Anthony McCarten
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We'd been living in the Arkansas Ozarks, then the Missouri Ozarks, because it is so inexpensive and does have natural wonders, but we shuffled things and moved to San Francisco, the corner of Dashiell Hammett and Pine.
- Daniel Woodrell
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My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
- Dane Cook
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I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me.
- Eric Stoltz
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Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state.
- Dale T. Mortensen
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'Point Break' is a movie that I and all of my friends grew up loving, watching all the time, quoting, living and being.
- Luke Bracey
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I used to be more of a sporty girl. I love outdoor activities. I haven't been doing much since living in Vancouver. I have my routines down in L.A.
- Lana Parrilla
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My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.
- Patrick J. Adams
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Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.
- Philip Yancey
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In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living.
- Mark Edwards
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Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame.
- Gordon Lightfoot
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A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
- Joey Lauren Adams
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I think no matter whether you're old or young or dying or living, to get to a place where you feel fulfilled and content is really rare and really cool.
- Emilie de Ravin
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Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large chunk of your living flesh will go with it.
- Tony Parsons
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The living werewolves have genuine needs and desires, which, though they may oppose ours, are valid. Even if they want to eat humans, you can't really call them evil, any more than mice can call cats evil, or chickens can call humans evil. It's all just a matter of where you're standing.
- Ted Naifeh
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The best gift we can have is living in the present moment and really enjoying it for what it is; and, not being in our heads and getting sidetracked.
- Amy Smart
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
- A. E. van Vogt
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The main part of living in Miami is that you have to learn how to dance salsa.
- Sabrina Claudio
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We adapt to technological progress by raising our minimum standards of living and working to stay above this rising threshold.
- Joe Lonsdale
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There are many actors who'll make their living in other areas, and they'll say they don't like theatre. What they're saying is that they're afraid of theatre because they know it will separate those who can from those who can't.
- Ken Stott
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It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.
- Bruce Babbitt
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The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.
- Otto Schily
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Everybody is happier living in a mixed-income neighborhood.
- Betsy Hodges
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I was 14, and I left on my own. Living in a subway train, and police used to come in with a nightstick and say, 'You can't sleep here.' I'd get up and go across the street, get on another train, and go back the other way.
- Charles Bradley
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It's really an interesting problem, trying to earn a living and serve art and serve kids. What I try to create are these visual layers so that readers feel the possibility exists that there might be something in the book they never saw before.
- Peggy Rathmann
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For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.
- Lactantius
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When WWF and WCW came along, they weren't the only game in town, but to make a good living, you had to work for one of the two organizations. Without a true Number Two, there is no such thing as a Number One. You're just it; you're just there.
- Jeff Jarrett
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Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.
- Francis Schaeffer
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Russia is now very far from being a communist country, but when I walked around Moscow, I kept glimpsing these haunting images. There were statues of Lenin and some neon signs of the hammer and sickle. I remembered myself then as a little girl, living under that oppression.
- Martina Navratilova
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I made most of my living doing beauty, because I was never really the fashion person.
- Sante D'Orazio
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Invicta treats the girls well but it wasn't enough to make a living off of.
- Tecia Torres
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To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.
- Trevor McDonald
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I've been really, really fortunate, everything from football on has been icing on the cake, so I'm living my dream.
- Jesse Palmer
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What I need to remember is that there are a lot worse days out there for other people, and I'm living a dream that I had. Regardless of whether it goes well or it doesn't, I'm living a dream, and my family is right there with me.
- Todd Reirden
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Fighters find it hard to give up doing what they do best - fighting for a living.
- Evander Holyfield
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I guess my critics say, 'He must be crazy. Nothing can be that beautiful.' But when you think that there are so many people around the world who have nothing, you realize how lucky you are to be making a living in the big leagues.
- Ernie Banks
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Two old Bachelors were living in one house; One caught a Muffin, the other caught a Mouse.
- Edward Lear
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
- Mel Brooks
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As a global society, we have the technology, resources and the know-how to make a massive difference to living standards everywhere, including for refugees.
- Antonio Guterres
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I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.
- John Mahoney
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Atlanta, in itself, is its own living, breathing thing.
- Brian Tyree Henry
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Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
- Valerie Simpson
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People wait in line to see me, saying there's plenty of living to be done even if you have an HIV diagnosis. People say they are 10- or 15-year survivors and still moving forward.
- Greg Louganis
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Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.
- Hampton Sides
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I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was a really nice job to have, but only a tiny amount of people heard those songs, and I didn't make a living from it, and eventually I begged my parents to let me move back into my room.
- Regina Spektor
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'Black-ish' is the cherry on the top of my career... When you come into your own, when you're in your skin, you're unstoppable, because you're living in the moment of life.
- Jenifer Lewis
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It was a big surprise when I started to get attention in Sweden, going from biochemistry studies to touring and living from music only. There were a couple of years while I went to university when I was OK with thinking of music as just a nice recreation.
- Jose Gonzalez
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Often, when you look at history, at least through the lens that many of us have looked at history - high school and college courses - a lot of the color gets bled out of it. You're left with a time period that does not look as strange and irrational as the time you're actually living through.
- Karen Joy Fowler
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I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations.
- Alfred Molina
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I wish I had some interesting stories about living in L.A., but mostly I just do my work and then go home.
- Alex Pettyfer
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I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.
- Jay McInerney
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Mumbai's infectious. Once you start living in Mumbai, working in Mumbai, I don't think you can live anywhere else.
- Yash Chopra
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With more than two million Taiwanese living on the mainland and some 400,000 mainland Chinese in Taiwan, plus several million mainlanders visiting Taiwan, the two sides must further boost their interactions and relations.
- Ko Wen-je
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Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?
- Nicholson Baker
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It's always been the same, growing up in Manhattan... the idea of living within a giant archer's target... for use by the bad Russia bowman with the atomic arrows.
- Jim Carroll
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Living in New York always felt to me like living in the middle of a carnival. It never stopped. There was something very exciting about it.
- Sissy Spacek
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Before I went to a meeting at the 'Harvard Lampoon,' I had no idea that there was even a comedy magazine at Harvard, let alone that you could write comedy potentially for a living.
- Colin Jost
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I think that I've been living on my laurels.
- Kyle Gass
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