#ife

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#facing #history #life #me #poetry

So I've never in my whole life really been teased about my weight. ↗

— Ruben Studdard

#been #i #life #never #really

I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#had #hills #how #i #know

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life. ↗

— Amy Tan

#because #being #ever #life #luxury

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#life #many #pass #real #sham

My whole life has been decided by fate. ↗

— Sharon Tate

#decided #fate #life #whole

Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned. ↗

— Debi Thomas

#changed #ever #figure #figure skating #first

My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball. ↗

— Isaiah Thomas

#gift #greatest #greatest gift #i #life

I told her it was a bigger than life musical, that all the actors were going to be about the same age, late twenties into thirties. It would be a style; a kind of surreal high school. ↗

— Randal Kleiser

#age #bigger #going #her #high

I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child. ↗

— George Konrad

#book #books #child #defend #i