I would have preferred someone else to have been in charge of rescuing this story, but once again life has taught me that my role is to be a witness, not the leading actor.
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Related As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread ... IAN HOLM Once I had kids, my life with them became so significant, ... So something else has to really be imp... JODIE FOSTER I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, becau... TAYLOR SWIFT My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he h... STEPHEN KING Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA In life, I take my decisions and stand by them. Some decisions may have proven to be not the best, b... KAJOL I have seen many phases of life; I have moved in imperial circles, I have been a Minister of State; ... JEAN-BAPTISTE DUMAS This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance we... BERTRAND RUSSELL I would have had an easier life if I were straight, but I would not be me. And I now like being myse... ANDREW SOLOMON Next generations will not know what is to have childhood. DANIEL MELGAçO My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. I... RALPH LAUREN I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time.... OSCAR WILDE This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this b... JANDY NELSON I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be
wicked and being really good all t... OSCAR WILDE (OSCAR FINGAL O'FLAHERTIE WILDE) Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul. MERYL STREEP I am profoundly grateful that all of my life I have had a simple faith that Jesus is the Christ. Tha... JAMES E. FAUST I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone les... CANDICE BERGEN When I was a boy, my mother would tell me that one of the best things in life is the knowledge that ... RENEE AHDIEH I would not have predicted that it (the market) would have been as active as it has been this early ... CARLTON LUND God strengthened me and taught me who I am in Him. He taught me that not only do I need to have fait... EL DEBARGE I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoug... ED SPELEERS There has been a transformation - you can feel it among the players - but I can hold my hand up and ... BRIAN ASHTON It's been extremely gratifying for me. If someone had told me in September that I would be in this p... FREDDY MEYER Acting is my true love. I would like to have been a serious actor, and I plan to in the next life. I... JOAN RIVERS I believe that every role that I have done this far has had quality and content. My roles have been ... NATASHA HENSTRIDGE I started out pursuing an acting career out of college when I lived in Los Angeles. When I got an en... ELEANOR MONDALE Solomon Northup is one of the most remarkable people I've ever encountered in my life; one of th... CHIWETEL EJIOFOR I have not spoken to Michelle. But she has been so gracious to me in comments in interviews. She has... EMILY HUGHES If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending... But if it's a story, even i... MARGARET ATWOOD I cant have a weak man in my life. I need someone to take charge and create with. I would love to be... NERISSA IRVING We would have preferred to see more on interest rates. This 'confidence' crisis has been caused by a... ADAM MESURIER We would have preferred to see more on interest rates. This 'confidence' crisis has been caused by a... ADAM LE MESURIER My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more... PAULO COELHO I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to be thi... GABRIELA ISLER Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live. ALEXANDER HERZEN It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a sto... COLIN HAY Sometimes life gets a little boring so you have to do
something crazy to remember your alive! NEIL OLSSON My life has been the polar opposite of safe, but I am proud of it and so is my son, and that is good... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doi... E. L. JAMES I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be ... WARREN MITCHELL This cat would have always been in charge, ... The family would have been pretty much hostages to it... GREG JOHNSTON I'm very excited to be in the position that I'm in, ... Obviously, I had a sour finish last year but... GRACE PARK I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. ... C. JOYBELL C. I didn't have any expectations of what my family life would end up being like. But I've been... JOSH TURNER I would have felt a little funny if another actor was playing this role. STEVE MARTIN My life? It isn't easy to explain. It has not been the rip-roaring spectacular I fancied it would be... NICHOLAS SPARKS I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on Fear. It should always ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of... MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ And now that I have been scammed once, I felt like it could not happen to me again. VANN CHOW It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a... COLIN HAY I'll tell you I would have preferred having a francophone in that post. It would have been preferabl... NEIL LEBLANC I had a dream about you last night. The best day of my life was when I taught you how to juggle, but... MICHAEL SUMMERS It makes me wonder how I’d be treated if I were like everyone else. Maybe I’m a pretty rotten pe... JODI PICOULT The roles that have come into my life have taught me - and in that time period maybe I didn't ev... EMMA STONE I love cartoons and childlike things, and this was my favorite. You can't escape it. It has always b... LINDA CARDELLINI The Keynesian idea is once again accepted that fiscal policy and deficit spending has a major role t... PAUL SAMUELSON Grandmam, as I have seen in looking back, was the decider of my fate. She shaped my life, without of... WENDELL BERRY Loving Duran Duran has been one of the constants of my life, but I have no idea what they would soun... ROB SHEFFIELD I would like to outsmart the role that is destined for me. But I can't. I have failed to destroy my ... BEN MARCUS It has long been a dream of mine that this important story one day would be told on the great Americ... GEORGE TAKEI I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he... KAREN FINERMAN People Pleaser, I have been there, done that!
I was who someone else wanted me to be, what a disease... NERY ROMAN My parents were strict and taught me the proper fundamentals that I would use in my life. They taugh... BILLY CASPER Lull me with your lullabies.. Serenade me with your souls. Make me dance with symphonies.. Do jazz w... KIM JOHN A. AGUIRRE So this is going to be drill!? DEYTH BANGER The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can b... MARIA MITCHELL Who am I? And how I wonder, will this story end? . . . My life? It is'nt easy to explain. It ha... NICHOLAS SPARKS I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so m... DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER But there's always a story behind the story. That's how the story never ends: Someone is always tell... ARI BERK & CAROLYN DUNN Had it not been for "Nightline," Morrie would have died without ever seeing me again. I had no good ... MITCH ALBOM I have only been a ‘Poor Me’ once or twice in my life… And that was my own fault. GARY HOPKINS It continues to give a negative feeling that the story is an off-again story. It's been difficult, b... JOE CANGEMI It was told to me, it was in a manner forced on me by the very person herself whose prior engagement... JANE AUSTEN We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has ... THOR HEYERDAHL I would say that my role model, as far as just somebody leading by example, which to me is what a gr... CARRIE UNDERWOOD It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not... ELLE MACPHERSON I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to... WARREN MITCHELL Flaws. We all have them. BUT, they are all about perception. What I consider as a flaw may not ... HORACIO JONES Of course we would have preferred to have an Israeli presence there to have real-time information, b... MOSHE KATSAV I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns ou... ALESSANDRO NIVOLA The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else. But my life, eviden... CHARLAINE HARRIS Without this program I would not be pursuing a career in culinary arts. This program has taught me e... COLLEEN DOLAN I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times... STANLEY TUCCI They always made sure I stood strong in what I believed in. They taught me that everything I do has ... DANIELLE LEE If the United States had taken a leading role in trying to make this a meaningful agreement ... then... DAN BECKER I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on... WALLY SCHIRRA God is my witness that up to now, my only aspiration in life is to be a useful element within the ar... MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK I became part of your fantasy, hoping that one day you would become part of mine! FRANCESCA MULONE We have Gideon because we don't want always to be speaking of our faith in abstract, otherworldly, i... DEAN G. STROUD Normal? I'm not normal enough for you?" Carlos says. "You want this guy instead? Did you notice his ... SIMONE ELKELES You have been taught that you are unclean, that you are not holy, that your body is impure and could... NAOMI ALDERMAN He knew I betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time. KHALED HOSSEINI I believe that the most important thing for a couple of any sort, to realize in their relationship w... C. JOYBELL C. I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objecte... ROBERT SMITH That's certainly what I grew up with-ballet and musical comedy. My mother taught ballroom dancing an... DONNA MILLS The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machi... MARILYN MANSON Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that com... BILLIE JEAN KING The sweetest feeling you can have in this world is to feel the hand of the Lord upon your shoulder. ... THOMAS S. MONSON
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CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON I've always ignored the labels people put on things. CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the s... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, ... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do. CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enoug... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War I... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for k... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine.... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are. CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinis... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in t... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. ... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON We are not creators, we are actualizers CARLOS GONZALEZ RUIZ 1. Be Impeccable With Your Word Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. 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