"I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession."
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"I am interested in my music lasting only while I'm alive. I'm not writing for the future."
"Ironic, huh? To keep that part of me alive, I have to be close to that which kills it."
"Yes, I'm alive," Mat said. "I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and it hardly counts."
"Computer viruses are alive."
"I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we´re still alive."
"The world was the Overlook Hotel, where the party never ended. Where the dead were alive forever."
"Being scared is part of being alive. Accept it. Walk through it."
"There's something about being in front of a live audience that's fun. It's a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can't get it anywhere else. And I've been doing it since I was 23, so it's part of my being - it's part of my fabric as a person."
"If the Lord wills, we shall make this Math a great centre of harmony. Our Lord is the visible embodiment of the harmony of all ideals. He will be established on earth if we keep alive that spirit of harmony here. We must see to it that people of all creeds and sects, from the Brahmana down to the Chandala, may come here and find their respective ideals manifested."
"You know you've been around when they start to remake your own movies when you're still alive."
"" Science is beginning to encroach on every level of our volition". And to me, that is a frightening social concept. It doesn't have anything to do with the right to have an abortion verses the right to life. It has to do with the ability of science to keep things alive and the ability of science to really control our lives."
"There is no person alive who cannot make a new beginning."
"Whether that is healthy or not to you, or healthy or not to anyone, or a doctor, is really of no concern to me. I don’t feel alive unless I’m performing, and that’s just the way I was born."
"I know he's dead! Don't you think I know that? I can still like him, though, can't I? Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them, for God's sake--especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that're alive and all."
"He felt his heart pounding fiercely in his chest. How strange that in his dread of death, it pumped all the harder, valiantly keeping him alive. But it would have to stop, and soon. Its beats were numbered. How many would there be time for, as he rose and walked through the castle for the last time, out into the grounds and into the forest?"
"He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive."
"Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive,-- Snuffy old drone from the German hive."
"Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive."
"High heels off; I'm feeling alive."