Life’s full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn’t matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it. – Bear Grylls
Death showed up in my life very early on, so I’m aware of it. If you look at most of the things I write there’s a sort of contemplation of mortality – although ‘True Blood’ doesn’t fall into that. Even though there’s such a ridiculously high body count! – Alan Ball
I never had a strategy about my life. I didn’t have enough information to have a strategy. I’m the first person in my family to go to college. I had no family mentors. – Alan Dershowitz
I get to be a teenager like every other teenager, but I have a passion and a great goal in life. – Bindi Irwin
I don’t have any sense of inhibition, so I’m able to lead my life with a lot of honesty. – Anushka Sharma
He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it. – Anthony Holden
Happiness is the first principle of life. Happiness basically means well-being. It is always good and always a choice… We need to make the choice to be happy in a particular situation, just as it is, and at a given moment. – Alexandra Stoddard
In 1984, Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt gave me the opportunity of a lifetime to serve as a legislative intern in his office in Washington, D.C. Coming from humble beginnings, the experience changed my life and charted me on a path of public service. – Brian Sandoval
When I was very young, I thought the theatre was a place where higher beings went about their celestial business, as if they knew nothing of ordinary life and its political mysteries. – Andrew O’Hagan
Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don’t look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny. – Candace Bushnell
You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary. – Bob Dylan
A man doesn’t cry. In my life, I’ve never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry? – Alejandro Jodorowsky
The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier. – Beau Willimon
I’ve always been a bit of an outsider… I just pop up, kind of. I have a life. I have children – I have three children – and I love the craft of acting; I’m dedicated to that… that’s always meant more to me than just hanging out… I’ve always been kind of a weirdo in that respect, but if the role is good, I’m going to do it. – Ally Walker
There will be a moment in life, whether you’re forceful or not, where someone will label you something that is negative. – Christine Quinn
Science and religion are both the same thing. They’re there; they’re life. If it’s not science, it’s not a fact. – Chuck Berry
I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it’s all going to be disastrous. That it hasn’t all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate. – Antony Sher
I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there’s a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again. – Alice Walker
I always tried to live my life as though nothing changed. People would say, ‘You can have a Rolls-Royce’. I’d say to that, ‘What do I want with a Rolls-Royce when I can have a Volkswagen or a bike?’ Some people get carried away with the juice. – Chuck Feeney
We’ve got to practice three weeks, get the kinks out, then we’ve got to practice three weeks with the crew, and then go out for four months. It’s just a huge chunk of time out of life. – Bob Seger
My dad, being a businessman, constantly talked to me about carrying myself in a certain way and treating people with respect. And I think that’s something that’s carried over throughout my life. It’s how I deal with certain situations. – Colin Kaepernick
There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity to go to work, have some security, have benefits, and take care of their family and have a good life. – Byron Dorgan
You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life. – Bob Dylan
Part of getting older is realizing that you can integrate all these different areas of your life, rather than the adolescent mindset, which for me lasted a long time, which says, ‘It’s all or nothing.’ – Chris Robinson
I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I don’t have any fear of turning 30. But maybe that’s because I know I’m never going to be 30 mentally at any point in my life! – Alfie Allen
As seemingly impossible as it may seem of having zero regrets, when I look at my life now and all the mistakes I’ve made, all the bad decisions I’ve made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don’t think I would have changed anything. – Apolo Ohno
I think that even though some of the things on ‘Humans of New York’ are kind of very personal and very revealing, I think the discomfort with sharing that tends to be overwritten by the appreciation of being able to distill the experience of your life into a story and share it with other people. – Brandon Stanton