There are situations where you are left robbed of all quality of life, and I believe it is entirely up to you how you want to deal with that. You can follow the dictates of religion if that is what you believe in, or you can take a personal decision.
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I've never guided my life. I've just been whipped along by the waves I'm sitting in. I don't make plans at all. Plans are what make God laugh. You can make plans, you can make so many plans, but they never go right, do they?
Tags: my-life, you, god, life
I'm not really a big musical fan. I enjoyed 'West Side Story' when it came out, but it gets a bit tired in the end.
Tags: big, story, end, tired
It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.
Tags: been, because, difficult, never
I'd love to claim that what I have done in my life is of my doing, but it's not of my doing at all. I've blown around in the wind like a mad thing, influenced by this and that - like a piece of paper: like the boy in that scene in 'American Beauty' watching a piece of paper blowing hither and thither.
Tags: my-life, beauty, life, love
To me, nothing ever feels like a sure thing. I cling to that because it's very important you don't ever think anything is a sure thing.
Tags: nothing, think, you, me
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