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In actual life I am a grumpy old bag. -- Dawn French
I've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life. -- Lauren Graham
In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith. -- August Wilhelm von Schlegel
Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a ruse. -- John Crowley
I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film. -- Norman McLaren
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. -- Samuel Smiles
And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life. -- Mark Strand
I've managed to keep my career going in a way that suits me. I'll perform, and then I'll go home to my actual life, and I've never been so visible. -- Debbie Gibson
Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is stretching for effect to avoid the actual life before his eyes. -- Roger Rosenblatt
All actual life is encounter. -- Martin Buber
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. -- Aristotle
Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art. -- Maurice Sendak
In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent. -- Aldous Huxley
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life. -- Sigmund Freud
Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums. -- Walter Gropius
Underneath the forms of fiction and poetry, you can bet your ass the ground comes from someone's actual life experience. -- Lidia Yuknavitch
That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received actual instructions on where to go and what to do. -- Winnie Holzman
People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them. -- Epictetus
You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive. -- Ernest Hemingway
My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself; but for my faith and aspiration I have respect. It is from these that I speak. -- Henry David Thoreau
This life is a test-it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions on where to go and what to do. Remember, this life is only a test. -- Jack Kornfield
Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be. -- Marcel Proust
Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life. -- Carl Jung
I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12-year-old. So I got to live an actual life. And I've kept that mentality. Just because there's a hurricane going on around you doesn't mean you have to open the window and look at it. -- Taylor Swift
I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I've kept that mentality. Just because there's a hurricane going on around you doesn't mean you have to open the window and look at it. -- Taylor Swift
We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. -- Theodore Roosevelt
dreams must not take the place of actual life, nor constitute themselves a cowardly escape from it, but become rather a sanctuary in which the overdriven mind and nerves may take refuge, a country on the outer edge of this confusion, bright with the shadow of eternity beyond. -- Maude Meagher
My diaries were written primarily, I think, not to preserve the experience but to savor it, to make it even more real, more visible and palpable, than in actual life. For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the study of serious history. For it is history alone which without causing us harm enables us to judge what is the best course in any situation or circumstance. -- Polybius
We see portability in electronics being a continuing requirement, higher functionality, better battery life, requiring lower power for the actual electronics. -- David Milne
If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. -- Don Herold
Swapping out the nine-to-five for a more agile, independent working life brings with it one other huge benefit - a channel for self-actualization. -- Leah Busque
Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves. -- Earl Warren
Chris Lighty was a huge portion of my actual career. It's difficult to adjust to not have someone around that's in your life, in your life. -- Curtis Jackson
Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities. -- Sebastian Faulks
Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space. -- Augusten Burroughs
One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia. -- Oliver Stone
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them. -- Jean Cocteau
The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal. -- Herbert Croly
Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life. -- Ben Affleck
Only this actual moment is life. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life. -- Nhat Hanh
Zen is meditation, the actual experience of life directly, immediately with no buffers. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life. -- Charles Horton Cooley
Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length. -- Thomas Hardy
When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life. -- Sharon Salzberg
Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare & profitless forever. -- Julia Ward Howe
I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not. -- Dorianne Laux
Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them.... -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
For some reason it gives people pleasure to equate the life of certain movie actors or actresses with their actual lives. -- Woody Allen
The life of the mind is always more interesting than the real. The idea is often more interesting than the actual. -- Rob Chapman
The greatest challenge of my life has been to see and accept the actual truth without great pain and struggle against it. -- M.C. Halliday
The actual growth in a person's life is the rise in his wisdom and not the raise in his pay or income. -- Anuj
The purpose of Karate is to guide you out of trouble by any means necessary, both in actual combat and in life -- Soke Behzad Ahmadi
Today I told myself that in actual fact anyone who takes an innocuous and random delight in his life is an absolute lummox. -- Robert Walser
The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself. -- African Spir
Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth. -- Watchman Nee
Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life. -- Shunryu Suzuki
The risk of an all-out nuclear holocaust destroying all life on the planet has diminished, but the danger of actual nuclear weapons use has increased. -- David Cortright
Positive self-direction is the action plan that all winners in life use to turn imagination into reality, fantasy into fact, and dreams into actual goals. -- Denis Waitley
I think therapy is a rather misguided notion of capitalist societies whereby the self-indulgent examination of one's life supersedes the actual living of said life. -- Peter Cameron
It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life. -- Anthony Trollope
I tend to think in dramatic terms. In life, there may be an actual drama, but it would be the fictionalized, imagined drama that engaged me. -- Joyce Carol Oates
The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life. -- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
[Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience. -- Mervyn Peake
There is not one text reference to characteristic Protestant religious life in these books... The dominant theme is the denial of religion as an actual part of American life. -- Paul Vitz
In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, sustain and are friends. -- James Ishmael Ford
The problem of evil is raised more often by spectators of life than the actual combatants. You will hardly ever find that the great sufferers are the great skeptics. -- James Stewart
...no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence. -- Terry Pratchett
If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it. -- Sigmund Freud

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