# life

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#chiefly #composer #exposure #false #i

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#felt #haven #i #life #music

I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities. ↗

— Donna Summer

#i #just #life #like #lots

I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know? ↗

— Kiefer Sutherland

#amazing people #came #could #ears #expression

That's my life in there. It would never be possible today to ask as many questions as I did. ↗

— Helen Suzman

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I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way. ↗

— Janet Suzman

#blood #character #flesh #hand #i

I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry. ↗

— Jimmy Swaggart

#life #man #marry #my life #never

Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

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We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#defend #else #i #i think #idea

People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real. ↗