Aidan Chambers Quotes, Names Quotes, Alive Quotes

And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.

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Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.

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I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.

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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.

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For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living for some other future beyond. You will never, never be able to sit back with full contentment and say, "Now, I've arrived!" Your entire education has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

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How did you know you're alive, unless you'd once been dead?

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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

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Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.

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How did you know you're alive, unless you'd once been dead?

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Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

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We're going to get [bin Laden]. Dead or alive, it doesn't matter to me.

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Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells.

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My aim is to understand love. I know how alive I felt when I was in love, and I know that everything I have now, however interesting it might seem, doesn't really excited me.

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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.

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for never yet Has lover lived, but longed to wive Like them that are no more alive.

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'E's all'ot sand an' ginger when alive, An''e's generally shammin' when'e's dead.

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GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone.

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What! alive, and so bold, O earth?

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For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living for some other future beyond. You will never, never be able to sit back with full contentment and say, "Now, I've arrived!" Your entire education has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

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We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.

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