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I'm really bad at describing my own life. -- Helmut Lang
I'm a minor player in my own life story. -- Tony Wilson
Women are extremely important shapers of my own life. -- Tony Hillerman
What is writing but an expression of my own life? -- Zane Grey
My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life. -- Tom Perrotta
In my own life I'm frequently in predominantly white atmospheres. -- Anna Deavere Smith
It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles. -- Taylor Swift
I spend my jollity on stage, so there is less in my own life. -- Marcus Brigstocke
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People care about my fame, not me. But that's fine. I have my own life. -- Josh Hartnett
My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories. -- Taylor Swift
More than my own life -- Stephenie Meyer
I want to make my own life a masterpiece. -- Benito Mussolini
I feel like I'm away for much of my own life. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
I don't want to be a passenger in my own life. -- Diane Ackerman
I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life -- Armistead Maupin
I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life. -- Armistead Maupin
Sometimes I will endanger my own life to pleasure a woman. -- Bret Michaels
I have my own life. And I am stronger than you know. -- Stevie Nicks
In my own life, I don't have intercourse. That is my choice. -- Andrea Dworkin
I can't run a company... I can't even run my own life! -- Adam Sandler
In my own life, I have no problems letting out a good scream. -- Sofia Vergara
I do tend to be a leader in situations in my own life. -- Sonequa Martin-Green
I just live my own life, and I don't read any of the magazines. -- Joel Madden
Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself. -- Pat Conroy
As far as my own life goes, I don't buy into the Hollywood scene. -- Steve Schirripa
I'm not conservative, but I am kind of clean living in my own life. -- Gillian Jacobs
I really have learned to trust myself in business and in my own life. -- Tara Reid
I know that sometimes in my own life I really felt like killing people. -- Gaspar Noe
Dealing with my own life takes priority over other people dealing with my life. -- Bob Dylan
What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime. -- Christopher Hitchens
I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls -- Victor Hugo
I understood....that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
I began writing fiction when I started running out of material in my own life. -- Jen Lancaster
I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me. -- Kat Edmonson
I needed to address that I've had some profound moral shifts in my own life. -- James Ellroy
I feel in my own life I've made many mistakes. I've failed in many directions. -- Sheldon Harnick
I never give any character I play less respect than I give my own life. -- Meryl Streep
The way I choose to live my own life rates time and space as real luxuries. -- Ben Elliot
Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material. -- Cathy Guisewite
I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm contending with it constantly in my own life. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I just love crafting and shaping sounds... I like to breathe my own life into these sounds -- Imogen Heap
I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene. -- Christian Bale
I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination. -- Chris Cooper
I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life. -- Wally Lamb
I definitely do feel a pull toward people and places that are far from my own life. -- Stef Penney
I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life. -- James Branch Cabell
I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life. -- Tamara Mellon
I try to make choices for my own life. And I try to make those choices count. -- Lisa Mangum
I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever. -- Jack Kerouac
Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am. -- Lake Bell
It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going. -- Ernie Banks
Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life. -- Antonin Artaud
I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business. -- Eugene H. Peterson
I have started to say "A quarter of a century" Or "thirty years back" About my own life. -- Philip Larkin
I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life. -- Paul Auster
I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. -- Margaret Atwood
There's a competitive fire inside me. I can't get enough. I live to compete daily in my own life. -- Mike Holloway
I just needed to get out on my own, live my own life. And I did, and it's great. -- Walt Disney
I am in an extended self-directed course of study. That is, I am in control of my own life. -- Amber Benson
I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people. -- Chief Joseph
Yes, I do feel the world revolves around me. After all, I am the main character of my own life. -- Stefanie Schneider
I have a very hard time with confrontation in my own life, and I end up being way too nice. -- Missi Pyle
I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life. -- Walton Goggins
I don't belong to anything, nobody's listening to me and I don't have any levers that control my own life. -- Glenn Beck
It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life. -- Jerzy Kosinski
Getting all emotionally wrapped up in made-up people's lives gives me a chance to take a break from my own life [...]. -- Arlaina Tibensky
From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide. -- Ella Maillart
I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself. -- Pat Conroy
Getting all emotionally wrapped up in made-up people's lives gives me a chance to take a break from my own life [...]." -- Arlaina Tibensky
I've always felt a confidence in what I do from the simple fact that I know I represent my own life. -- Lazarus of Bethany
My mother is an actress and very well known in France; hence, I move to London to start my own life. -- Eva Green
My own cabaret is constantly evolving with what is occurring in my own life, so motherhood is a natural addition to it. -- Susan Egan
It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play. -- Diane Kruger
I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer. -- Reverend Malcolm Boyd
Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece. -- Steve Buscemi
I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life. -- Dani Shapiro
Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would. -- Phil Klay
Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island. -- Nicolas Cage
I'm just singing about my own life. Singing about all the little stories in my life and the things I've been through. -- Katy Perry
So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
The last thing in the world that I would want to know, in my own life, is when I'm going to pass away. -- Vince Gilligan
I read Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them and I found frightening pieces that related to"¦my own life. -- Newt Gingrich
When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life. -- Jesse Harris
when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life. -- Twyla Tharp
I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
I had to be my own person and live my own life if I wanted to be happy, and I just did it. -- Iris Apfel
Talking about adversity that I've walked through in my own life or hearing an artist talk about their own adversity makes me feel vulnerable. -- John Feldmann
In my own life, when I'm not working, I do wear a lot of black. I think I do feel very comfortable in black. -- Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I'm away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
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. -- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life. -- Cassandra Clare
It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved by anyone again. -- Will Harondale
I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun. -- Tamsin Greig
I can be capable of anything if I allow myself to be. I really realized what an obstacle I was being in my own life. -- Erin Willett
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? -- Max Lucado
Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life. -- Katherine Paterson
I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again. -- Ann Patchett
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. -- Chris Klein
I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait. -- Larry Wall
I don't reverberate to victimhood, probably because of my own life. I refused to become a victim myself, so it's not one of my big stories. -- Kevin Starr
I would say that as I've gotten older, I trust my intuition more; I allow myself more freedom both musically, creatively and my own life existentially. -- Matisyahu
Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel. -- David Macaulay
You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?' -- David Mamet
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. -- Charles Dickens
A big part of country music is a way of life, at least from my standpoint. That's how I craft my music from my own life experiences. -- Luke Bryan
In my own life, I'm pretty good at choosing between good and bad. It's the choices between good and good I find the most difficult to make. -- Ally Condie
I've found in my own life, if you try to struggle against what the universe is telling you, you set yourself up for more of a battle. -- Michael Stuhlbarg
In my own life if I knew I was going to pass away I'd love to sit down and resolve every issue so I could go peacefully. -- John Travolta
Part of my gestalt is that I still feel a little bit like a wallflower. Even in my own life. I talk about myself behind my back. -- Carrie Fisher
I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant, the key to everything else. -- Sarah Dessen
I don't know how to save my own life, so anything they've found in what I've written that saved theirs - I can't take responsibility for it. -- Frederick Buechner
I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
That's what happened when my own life crumbled. The people who came into my life bolstered me to take more risks, to be even more true to myself. -- Frances Moore LappÃ©
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. -- Agnetha Faltskog
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. -- T. S. Eliot
As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer. -- Candice Millard
You know why I got involved in politics? The government is now a majority partner in my life. I am now a minority partner in my own life. -- Anthony Scaramucci
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. -- Susan Lucci

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