#living

I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go wherever she has a job. All basements look the same, so I can write from whatever basement I happen to be living in. ↗

— John Green

#basement #contemporary #contemporary art #curator #decide

Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#body needs #choose #develop #did #dietary

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life. ↗

— Charles Ives

#art #comes #directly #exclusive #experience

Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me back into a shuttle - and no other astronaut. The confidence is shaken. ↗

— Ulrich Walter

#back #confidence #every #flew #i

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#builds #children #does #easily #england

They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do. ↗

— George Sutherland

#average #average person #i #living #make

My parents not only did it for a living, but they were really good at it. ↗

— Kiefer Sutherland

#good #living #only #parents #really

I find its attention to living this life rather than the next one exhilarating because I think even independently of Judaism that that's the right way to go about life. ↗

— Janet Suzman

#attention #because #even #exhilarating #find

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#go #happy #i #job #life

Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living. ↗

— David Talbot

#even #important #least #living #maybe