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«I don't feel like a dream girl, but I think it's really nice. I guess a part of me wishes I got that sort of attention in my real life. Because in my real life, I'm this weird, dorky girl who just hangs out with her dog.»
Author: Alicia Silverstone (Actress) | About: Feelings, Life, Wishes | Keywords: hangs, real life
«I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.»
Author: B. F. Skinner | About: Life, Self-control | Keywords: design
«I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.»
Author: Ernst Fischer (Chemist, Educator) | About: Art, Life | Keywords: imitate
«I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.»
Author: Gloria Naylor | About: Life
«I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.»
Author: Wendell Berry | About: Grace, Grief, Life, Peace | Keywords: come into, forethought, Peace of
«I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.»
«I don't know what better teenage life you could get than going around the world doing what you love to do.»
Author: Anna Kournikova (Model, Tennis Player) | About: Life, Teenage, Travel | Keywords: teenage
«I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life.»
Author: Julia Roberts (Actress) | About: Fame, Life, Thinking | Keywords: Open Season
«I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.»
«I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.»