"Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us."
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"Sometimes, you just have to reassure the ones you love in precise language that you'll always be there. Sometimes words are enough."
"Sometimes you forget how much you love someone, until you realize their smile is like a spotlight shined on your heart."
"Sometimes you work all the way through to 5am, then get a few hours and you're back on set again."
"Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails."
"We have to gamble, and sometimes lose as George Ainslie argues; this keeps the appetite for life sharp."
"Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing here."
"The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it's almost always only in retrospect that we know which is which."
"One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it's tedious and monotonous. You're bored sometimes, so you really have to make the fun in your head."
"Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I'm famous."
"People have maybe, sometimes, said that I can, occasionally, be a teeny bit edgy and judgmental."
"Even if I sometimes have some somewhat negative thoughts, for instance, if I see them in somebody else's movie, I feel jealous and possessive."
"I tend to write, either myself, or I sometimes write with a co-writer, my friend that lives up the road. It's usually a relatively solitary thing, but I do like coming up with ideas."
"One is least sure of one's self, sometimes, when one is most positive."
"Smile sometimes: it won’t add years to your life, but it will add life to your years."
"Sometimes you need to sit in the wrong place to see the right view."
"For me, I tend to sit back sometimes and just count my blessings because of how long I've played."
"Sometimes there's luck, When there is you stock up on it and wait for the other times"
"The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult."
"sometimes there's nothing to say about death."