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The way I look is part of it. It sounds affected but I do see myself as a piece of living art. — Klaus Nomi

But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow. — Albert Camus

I just don't think of myself as a star. This is what I do for a living; I'm fortunate that I make ends meet. — Phil Collins

I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that. — Angelina Jolie

I stepped into the shadows, telling myself not to be afraid. Yet I knew I would either find something worth living for or I would stay dead. — Zachary Koukol

I don't have to kill myself, living my life is just the same. — Aaron Scheerer

I wake up in the morning and ask myself; is life worth living? Should I blast myself? — Tupac Shakur

I have a lot of work to do today;
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again. — Anna Akhmatova

Control meant not only taking care of myself but living in a much less protected world. And doing that meant growing a tough skin. — Janet Jackson

I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can. — Doris Lessing

By 1988, I was living in New York myself. — Ira Sachs

The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself. — Anais Nin

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself. — Francis Bacon

Former lefties can make a good living in the media by attacking their ex-comrades - I'd do it myself if the price was right. — Nick Cohen

I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character. — James Taylor

I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased. — John Fowles

I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing. — Laura Bell Bundy

Part of living is understanding where the fringes are. Once you know how far people go, you can say, "Well, here's how I choose to represent myself." — Morgan Spurlock

On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in. — Tao Lin

It's funny because all through the '80s I didn't do TV and movies very much. I prided myself that I was making a living in the theater. — Charles Kimbrough

My religion consists of laughing at myself. My motto is this: As long as there is a me, there is a reason to laugh out loud! — C. JoyBell C.

Which means every tomorrow is going to be worse than every today. Why feel sorry for myself today when tomorrow's bound to be worse? — Susan Beth Pfeffer

The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore. — C. JoyBell C.

I've never considered myself to be working for a living; I've enjoyed myself for a living instead. — John Mills

I tried so hard to find life within myself, to live for something great - something that would make life worth living — B.P. Morgan

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other. — Naguib Mahfouz

Whenever I get frustrated, I tell myself, you could be working at a 7-Eleven right now, so never take for granted what you do for a living. — Shannen Doherty

If I cannot read and learn and have things that are worth thinking about, I would rather immolate myself than go on living. Synthetic — Walter Tevis

I'm not scared of dying perhaps I'm scared of living in this world. — Myself

Am I living?' ... I forgot myself, and sank into dim and watery oblivion. — Annie Dillard

If my boy had perished in a Nazi compound, I could never have gone on living. I would have killed myself. — Coco Chanel

[Books] were the world I could lose myself in when the one I was actually living in became too lonely or harsh or difficult to bear. — Cheryl Strayed

Walk,' was my answer, 'I definitely must, to invigorate myself and to maintain contact with the living world ... Without walking, I would be dead. — Robert Walser

Personally, I like to sleep. And I intend to appropriately confine myself more and more to my living quarters and pass my life away sleeping. — Tsunetomo Yamamoto

I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste. — Kelly Lynch

I spend so much time living by myself - mostly in hotels - and I pick up cats when I'm feeling particularly lonely. — Penelope Cruz

I almost hit on every women that I like. It's not about being a flirt, it's about living the way how I wish to be. — Myself

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring. — Morgan Freeman

Man what's the point of living if I'm living for myself
Lord empty out my life before I put you on the shelf — LeCrae

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. — Cary Grant

Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real. — Jim Ramstad

For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself. — James McGreevey

I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city. — Paula Cole

I don't think of myself as an American Master. I've just been making a living. — Bob Newhart

It's like we've been living in two different cities. You up here in all this marbled comfort, and me down there, killing myself in slow motion. — Garth Risk Hallberg

And the moment I started living for myself, I could never go back to living for somebody else — Akansha Gupta

It would be wise to define 'living' as walking in the fullest expression of who I am, verses wallowing in the confines of who I'm not. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I like to think of myself as a regular guy, except I play football for a living. I try not to be an arrogant turd out there. — Brian Urlacher

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself. — Russell Hoban

I see myself as the world's oldest living teenager ... I try to get as much kick out of things as possible. — Iris Apfel

I was forever having internal conversations with myself; a result, no doubt, of living alone for so many years. — Anonymous

I wouldn't apply myself at school. I was quite bright, but I didn't do much with it, and I thought acting was dressing up and shouting for a living. — Michelle Gomez

I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity. — Elizabeth Blackwell

I live in a one bedroom apartment by myself which is cool. I like to have my stuff exactly where I want it, so living alone is good for me. — Keiynan Lonsdale

To regret anything is to regret myself.For if I plucked out these painful pieces, I'd be someone else, living another life. — Ian Ballard

How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink! — Nikos Kazantzakis

I have made a living off the way I look, and I have really learnt to accept myself for being unusual. — Lily Cole

I'm living the life I love, I tell myself, and loving the life I live. I tell myself: I deserved this. This is exactly what I wanted. — Chuck Palahniuk

I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years. — Hugh Jackman

I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're all going through. — Edward Norton

Nothing had consequence, I was living in the moment and I could feel myself getting shallower and dumber. — Gillian Flynn

Think, I tell myself.
Think.
Unwrap your brain from the shroud
it's been living in.
Think. — Valentina Cano

I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do. — Tawni O'Dell

I forgive myself for not being perfect. I am living the very best way I know how. — Louise Hay

I'm trying to earn a living in the way that is most enjoyable to me. I love the world of literature, and I hope to support myself in it. — Jamaica Kincaid

I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living. — Oscar Wilde

I love movies, I love being a part of them, and this is the one occupation I love living and playing in and stressing myself out over. — Drew Barrymore

I have always felt that if I am very personal and connected with what I myself am living, my writing will transcend ecclesial boundaries. — Henri Nouwen

I wouldn't call myself an actress, but I at the same time, if there is an opportunity ... I believe in taking chances and living your life. — Gisele Bundchen

I have no worries myself, nor do I exude or possess within my living stratus any reason why someone should worry [on] my behalf. — Lark Voorhies

Success to me is being able to do what I love, make a living at it and to support myself and the ones I love. — Art Alexakis

This kiss will consummate a part of myself with him that is newly revealed - the living and breathing substance pulsating between both of us. — Renee Ericson

I had been living as if there were no tomorrow, and had nearly made that a reality. — Billy Idol

I realised it was only me who was stopping myself from living my life. — Jennifer Aniston

I am living on the moon, I told myself, I have little house all by myself on the moon. — Shirley Jackson

It's a dream come true to have someone else portray me. Because I've been living this life for a long time, and I'm over myself. — Chelsea Handler

So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living. — Virginia Woolf

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly. — Paulo Coelho

I had been the dutiful son and husband for so long, I had forgotten about living for myself. — Michael Masser

How can I pull myself up by my bootstraps if I'm living on a shoestring? — Jayseth Guberman

That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans. — C.S. Lewis

I've told people that I don't see myself living very long. That really upsets them, but I'm just being honest. — Michael Angelakos

I tell myself I'm fine on my own, but am I? No friends to fall back on, no relationships, no support. Left to my own devices, I have no devices. — Jael McHenry

The UK has a super strong music culture. I could definitely see myself living there if it made sense. — MC Lars

Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision ... — Salvador Dali

The voices in my head does not likes attitude of some people. I know how to defend myself, but I do not want to hurt their feelings for ease my pain. — Sammy Toora Powerlifter

When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first. — Feist

I want to see me to the end working, living for myself. Ripeness is all. — Maurice Sendak