This collection holds 178 life time me quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Ruby Bridges, Kaya Scodelario and Maury Povich.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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It's taken me a long time to own the early part of my life.

Mum built a life for me in a difficult place at a difficult time.

It was the roughest time in my life. Connie helped me through it.

It seems to me that the time for subtlety in our American life has passed.

College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.

I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.

What excites me is just taking some time to breathe in life. The mundane is very exciting.

Becoming a parent changed my life drastically and left me little time for leisure reading.

For some reason, as time gets short in life, wasting time escaping through entertainment bothers me.

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

It took me a long time to get my life screwed up, and it's going to take a long time to get it back.

It is part of my life, being in front of the camera all the time. It's not something that's new to me.

My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

My parents keep me grounded. I've spent a lot of time on my own in my life, and I've learnt the hard way.

I cannot do more than two films at a time. I like to have a life besides films. That is very important to me.

My closest friends do come to me all the time about their personal life for advice but we have healthy boundaries!

Time is my enemy. Time will catch up with me vocally. And I dread that. I dread to think about life without singing.

I wish one time in my life I could do what other writers do... get me a villa in Spain and go there to write a book.

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

Life for me has always been about timing, and it was bad timing for that disease to hit me; it was time to exit stage.

At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming.

Any audition that I have now, I feel like it's easier for me to learn the words because of my time on 'One Life to Live.'

No one has ever threatened me in real life but on Facebook and Twitter it's all the time. You just get Internet warriors.

A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.

I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

My whole life's been stability. People who have worked with me have for a long time. Air Asia is the same people who started it.

I couldn't write a female who fell to pieces every time something didn't go right in her life. She would just annoy me too much.

Most people who know me know I'm not switched on all the time. I don't like to be like that in real life, because it's draining.

People always say a script will be 'brought to life in a magical way,' but for me that has been proven wrong time and time again.

I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.

There was a girl who messaged me and said she was on the verge of taking her life, then 'Battles' came on just in the nick of time.

There is no feeling of regret spending time on the campaign. I think working closely with Kalam made me realise how simple he is in life.

Sex does not exist for me at all. I haven't had a boyfriend for a long time. There were only three or four in my life up until now anyway.

I kind of go back and forth about marriage and kids. I feel like, if it's an organic way for me and the right time in my life, then, yeah.

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

I guess I'm struck all the time by how outrageously wrong life is. There are times I can't stand to read the newspapers. It makes me insane.

I didn't have really much of a social life in high school, and I'm not really a partyer, so college wasn't super appealing to me at the time.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

It's really weird seeing someone impersonating you. But at the same time, Vic Reeves' impersonation of me is one of the highlights of my life.

'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.

At any one particular time, there is something in my life that is suffering as a result of my many responsibilities; most of the time, it's me.

Most of the time, with artists like me who go on to become superstars, you never see them when they are still lost and trying to figure life out.

I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.

'Showgirls' was a critical point in my life. I had my head handed to me. At 21 years old, I had to find my self-esteem again. It was a very hard time.

I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.

My time in New York really clarified things for me. I thought, 'What could I do with my life that would give it meaning?' And writing was that for me.

That's what makes me insufferable to be around, is that most of my life I have assumed that everyone wants to see me perform and do things all the time.

I do have a memo all the time because I need to be guided by something in my life. I'm not religious and I don't have idols, so something has to drive me.

I've been making notes of my life, but when it finally came time to write it, it took me back, and I cried many tears. But I also think that it's liberating.

At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure.

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