One is a path of being alive, one is a path of not being alive.
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"If there's anything better than being alive in reality it's being alive fictionally, as well," he said with a laugh.
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I really love being alive and I'm quite good at being alive, meaning I like to get the best out of any day.
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" He is adamant that he loves being alive. "M.
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Whose life do you make worse, simply by being alive?
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I couldn't change the world when I hated being alive.
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Is it better to know the pain of being alive?
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Surviving meant "being alive after the death of," she explained.
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Forget the face transplant; we're talking about just being alive.
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For real, just for being alive and being amazing people.
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"I feel like I'm blamed for being alive," Kendra responds.
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"I lost my reason for being alive, really," he said.
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So much of our relationship depends on him being alive.
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In all your parts, do you still enjoy being alive?
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"Atlanta" is rigorously attuned to the comedy of being alive.
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They experienced being alive and had thoughts about that experience.
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It's a big part of the point of being alive.
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It's a small price to pay, he says, for being alive.
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The Twitter shitposts drawn from the regular humiliations of being alive?
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But congrats on the recognition of being a man & being alive.
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But cancer has also ushered in new ways of being alive.
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It takes a lot of effort to facilitate my being alive.
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Then take notes as they gradually lose interest in being alive.
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Is it any more universal than the ecstasy of being alive?
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There are waves of anger, denial, rage -- guilt for being alive.
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Contemplating what the end looks like is part of being alive.
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It is a condition of being alive in America in 2019.
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If you don't, you'll miss the entire point of being alive.
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"I felt there was no point in being alive," she said.
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Some families talk about the spirit of Christmas still being alive.
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When he awoke, his first response was joy at being alive.
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Snowman, formerly known as Jimmy, might be the last human being alive.
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Gordon will be missed, yes, but being alive also means moving on.
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It captures the inherent contradiction of being alive, while always awaiting death.
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He thought "the plight of being alive" was least painful at twilight.
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" Part of being alive is awaiting the "revelation" of "who you'll become.
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I gently clarify that she must be afraid of not being alive.
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And did she love being alive more than she loved her sister?
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Or the way that you know them is through just being alive.
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Being alive in the first place is a ridiculous and rare privilege.
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Being alive today can feel like an exercise in surviving constant chaos.
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He needs to learn to live with the pain of being alive.
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Here I am on the couch with my legs crossed, being alive.
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"Specializing was the death of being alive and being creative," Mr. Siegel said.
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This dude, down to his core, enjoys being alive and being an optimist.
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"It's about the bizarre experience of being alive at all," he tells me.
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I pause to give thanks to my creator for being alive and here.
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That's informed by me being alive on the planet for a bit longer.
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The central feature of being alive is that you eventually stop doing it.
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Being alive—and especially being online—in 173 is an unsettling, cacophonous experience.
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Life is short; it's nice to take some time to enjoy being alive.
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Like them, one day I'll find meaning beyond just being alive for another day.
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Martha Stewart knows how to embrace the mundanity of being alive and of blogging.
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"I've just fallen more and more in love with being alive again," she says.
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For me, being open is just — that's the necessity that I feel, being alive.
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Comics illustrate life in a way that actually matches what being alive feels like.
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"Sexily begging you to keep us healthy — because there's nothing sexier than being alive."
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It was in Eastbourne that she first had felt the better for being alive.
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Breathing, of course, is important (some would say that it's crucial to being alive!).
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We were abuzz with the joy of being alive and having accomplished our mission.
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Our weekly newsletter covers the wild world of being alive as a human being.
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You can finally "sink into the wonderful experience of being alive," Ms. Schulte said.
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"You know one really cool thing about being alive in the future?" he asked.
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Eating food and having sex are undoubtedly two of the best things about being alive.
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I should feel grateful for being alive two years from my diagnosis, when others aren't.
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"We wanted to be a celebration of being alive," Mr. Fouratt said at the time.
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They put out into the world an opinion about being alive, and that is political.
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Maybe it's just the novelty of existence experienced without the principal hallmark of being alive.
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The horror aspect just came naturally from, you know, being alive in 2018 in America.
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They were the first to grapple with the central mystery of being alive: being unalone.
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And the poor survivor — not an oxymoron here — will catch hell just for being alive.
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It feels like an obscure thing to master and to signify myself as being alive.
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It would be nice if just being alive were enough to entitle you to free stuff.
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A full-blown collision with being alive, an intimate soul encounter with the quintessence of existence.
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Unfortunately, these are easily damaged by abrasion—and, not being alive, cannot regrow and repair themselves.
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Which, in a way, is what being alive is like so it was actually pretty fitting.
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We are not used to wealthy people having a completely different biological experience of being alive.
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Death haunts each page, but what better way to really understand the magic of being alive?
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I think for him it was about the joy of being alive to see his family.
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" He then warned an unspecified person -- or persons -- against taking the path "of not being alive.
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As humans we can all be self-indulgent—it's one of the pleasures of being alive.
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Don't ever forget that being alive is the single most courageous act we can take on.
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But being alive and being sentient are two different things… Prism Stalker #1 is out now.
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But you have to keep trying, because that's the point of being alive, to some degree.
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But how to wake people up to the special-ness of being alive and self-aware?
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We know just from being alive and knowing people that all our brains are very different.
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Orringer's true subject, the moral peril of being alive, is a grandly timeless — and timely — one.
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Creation of new ideas, new enterprises, or new things is the biggest joy of being alive.
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And you changed it to an argument about being illegal human, or being alive and being illegal.
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Being alive during the 2016 election meant being nearly constantly reminded that Hillary Clinton mishandled classified information.
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That's less likely than Elvis still being alive or Simon Cowell becoming the next U.K. prime minister.
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Betty, shocked at Nick being alive still, is later tormented by some more by the Black Hood.
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You will never convince me that married people have more purpose in being alive than I do.
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Last season's finale introduced the twist of Phil's (Forte) astronaut brother (Jason Sudeikis) being alive in space.
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We will thank God for being alive, knowing that any storm will only serve to purify us.
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The circus is an exuberant place, like childhood; a celebration of the joy of just being alive.
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We may not have her party stamina (remember the #RihannaPlane debacle?), but just being alive is exhausting.
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Almost from the start, Cora boldly challenged my understanding of the difference between being alive and living.
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Trepidation and grief dissolve in the weird awareness (can it possibly be true?) of still being alive.
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That was difficult, she said, because she feels guilty for being able to walk, for being alive.
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At some level, we must learn to be O.K. with the inevitable risk of simply being alive.
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Unfortunately for us humans, having our flesh eaten is one of the possible side effects of being alive.
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If you like eating, and also enjoy being alive, you might want to take their opinions to heart.
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To be existing at all is beautiful simply because of how complicated and unexplainable being alive really is.
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Here's a grim reality of being alive in 2016—we spend an inordinate amount of time instant messaging.
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It's our relationship to ourselves; how we feel about being alive, where we find meaning and get perspective.
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With her open eyes and lips parted as if mid-sentence, she looks so close to being alive.
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It stems from the shared agony of being alive, and stumbling through the illogical reality of human existence.
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There were also about 500 extras to give the train terminal the appearance of being alive and bustling.
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So below you will find a list of 15 albums that will soothe the stress of being alive.
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Yeah, I think the pain of being alive is, in a way, the most universal thing we have.
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Acuna: Looking at the rest of the episode, what does Beta make of [Alpha's daughter] Lydia being alive?
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We honor treaties that date back some 200 years despite no one being alive who signed those treaties.
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And you realize that that's what human happiness is: having a resilience and an excitement about being alive.
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They are testaments to the temporal quality of our civilizations, and to the very humility of being alive.
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Being alive was, if not the best thing, then at least an O.K. thing, an endlessly O.K. thing.
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"Better to be on the ground alive than falling to the ground and not being alive," Greenberg wrote.
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That simple idea begins and ends this lovely, spare tribute to being alive, despite the inevitable rough times.
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After all, the Delos executive now knows Maeve is the last being alive who can control the mesh network.
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Accepting that life is suffused with a low-buzzing undercurrent of dread is just part of being alive now.
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He didn't directly address the hoax at the time – he just continued being alive until people got the picture.
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Because loving people and animals and the world we live in is the most important part of being alive.
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Update, 4:22PM: It appears the living are back to being alive, and the dead are once again resting.
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Jacob Thompson loved Christmas but he knew the chances of him being alive for his favorite holiday were slim.
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It is gratitude at being alive while also acknowledging that everyone else should be equally grateful for your presence.
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I love being alive – I love having beautiful memories & I am beyond excited about what the future may hold.
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I don't know if that math is quite right, but it's a year and five months of being alive.
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But perhaps the disorder is not so much a disorder at all as a heightened sensitivity to being alive.
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If you're not sad sometimes, maybe a lot of times, you're missing out on the point of being alive.
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Beyond their love of art, what joins these artists is their sensitivity to the constant perils of being alive.
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Because a day on the hardwater replicates being alive like nothing else: it's sometimes successful, sometimes unpleasant, always beautiful.
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"He is very old so I really want to express my gratitude for being alive for a long time."
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Spending this moment with someone who didn't make it reminded me of the stakes—the importance of being alive.
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I don't think of Bergman's portraits as eccentric; rather, they are necessary reminders of the perils of being alive.
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"I can't picture Robert being alive and not contacting us for [so many] years," said Robert Fisher's sister Jean Rountree.
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In this case, the cat being alive is the ground state, and the cat being dead is the excited state.
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The operatic approach lines up with the album's themes of time, separations, love, and the immense pressure of being alive.
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"We got engaged because we decided to sort of celebrate life and celebrate being alive," she said on The View.
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That's how you make unexpected discoveries and you know... use your brain to perform the basic tasks of being alive.
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"It's a big opportunity to have someone tell their story, being alive and being the biggest drug lord," she said.
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The system of paying someone for being alive — now known as universal basic income — stretches back to the 16th century.
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Stick close to the people who make you laugh, who make you feel OK, or even good, about being alive.
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Put this on in the morning, drink a cool glass of juice, and taste the flavour of being alive, baby.
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He sings of intense anxiety, breathless and desperate queer desire, and the general emotional overload that comes with being alive.
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It's all bright, colorful and gives the impression of being alive—or at least of having been alive fairly recently.
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Ultimately, we have decided at Sandy Hook that our right to own guns trumps my students' rights to being alive.
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Since 1982, the state has given each citizen an annual check just for being alive, effectively wiping out extreme poverty.
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He taught me that your work should always represent you and what you want to say, personally, about being alive.
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The stipends are a test of basic income, a policy approach that would essentially pay people simply for being alive.
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The questions it raises, and many more, embody the contradictions of being alive in New York at this epochal moment.
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I'm proud of you Ferg, 10 months is a long time to be sober and I'm grateful for you being alive.
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There is a cost and a weight to being alive, and to ignore it is the worst thing you can do.
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That's the cost of being alive and being aware — knowing things must be better, and knowing you will always fall short.
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Above all, it transmits his rhapsodic delight in natural beauty, as when an electric storm "heightens the sense of being alive".
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" Hammond adds that "this is a movie worth savoring, something that entertains, enlightens and makes us feel good about being alive.
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That's because it displays the calories you burn just being alive, instead of active, and I find the latter more valuable.
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But in the larger sense, or maybe the simpler sense, you can party about the ultimate event, which is being alive.
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" Laura agreed that she was experiencing "the stuff of being alive that I just had no idea was possible for me.
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Moira awakened her outrage, Ofglen demonstrated the power of rebellion, and Janine reminded her being alive isn't the same as living.
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Racism is grounded in the commitment that "the other" is somehow defective, not in behavior or character, but in being alive.
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Conservative women, anti-feminist women, apolitical women, it is simply a fact: You are participating in feminism just by being alive.
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For as long as I have been conscious, the existence of the Green Siren has been a fact of being alive.
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It's easy to get caught up and overwhelmed by the fast-paced and demanding nature of just being alive in 2020.
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I'm not interested in illustrating problems; I'm interested in making art that speaks to being alive and experiencing things in time.
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When at last he moves his body, Luca experiences a brief, lurching exhilaration at the very fact of his being alive.
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"Being alive is fucking overrated," one entry reads, above a drawing of a handgun going off with the word "ready?" underneath.
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"Sometimes it helps to have gratitude about the little things, and the not-so-little things like being alive," Dr. Alvord says.
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And I didn't just read these stories, each revealing at once the absolute absurdity and magnificence of being alive; I savored them.
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Being alive means making choices, like whether to buy a black dress or black skirt or black pants for your father's funeral.
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Dean Jones gives it his all on each take of "Being Alive," the big finale, even as fatigue blooms in his eyes.
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Seth Romatelli: It's about being alive right now, about living in America right now, and wondering what the fuck is going on.
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Hopelessness is at once triumphant and crushing: It embraces the paradox of being alive in 2016 instead of getting paralyzed by it.
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Stiller credited being alive today to a cancer detecting test called Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA), which involves testing a patient's blood sample.
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A long mourning song for the death of a mother, and a quiet celebration of the endless struggle that is being alive.
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With its fines for honking and just being alive in a park after dark, sometimes it hardly even feels like a city.
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Yes i do think every human being can find happiness in something, even if it is just being happy with being alive.
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"My dear, thank you for just being alive," said one South Korean father, above, to his long-lost daughter from the North.
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Biden's got the best experience, Bernie's got the best fund-raising, and Beto's got the best chance of being alive in 2020.
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"My dear, thank you for just being alive," said Hwang Woo-seok, 89, hugging Young-sook, 71, his daughter from the North.
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It's a perfect concept, and the bot captures all the millennial angst, ennui, and complex emotional nuance of being alive in 2019.
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We all know what stress feels like — even if you're the most zen person in existence — simply by virtue of being alive.
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" Alyssa Battistoni looks at the growing interest in a universal basic income — a policy sometimes explained as "paying people for being alive.
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Decades only make sense in retrospect because being alive during one is a series of experiences, while looking back is a remembrance.
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Wright wrote like it mattered and, though he conjured a world of trouble, he clearly got a bang out of being alive.
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How might we understand the possibility of Laquan McDonald being alive today if Van Dyke's previous transgressions had been taken more seriously?
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This Death Stranding began several years before the events in Death Stranding, and it is not good for anyone who loves being alive.
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"All of us human beings, and I include myself, we take for granted this great gift we have of being alive," he added.
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Aegon being alive is a big reveal in the books, so it's pretty significant that he hasn't yet turned up on the show.
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"We got engaged because we decided to sort of celebrate life, and celebrate being alive," she said on The View earlier this month.
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"It is said: 'to risk one's life', but perhaps one should say 'to risk life', [because] being alive is a risk," she continued.
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It's an intense book that reminds us that a problem of being alive is seeing things you hate but are attracted to anyway.
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Although today he is much more comfortable with English, the psychological subtleties in an otherwise strong vocal performance of "Being Alive" eluded him.
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There are few artists who have that profound joy in the act of seeing, the act of being alive and making fresh discoveries.
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Knowing where you were: This seemed like a big part of the point of living in Nevada, possibly of being alive at all.
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My first Sondheim play was 'Company,' I was in sixth grade and I had no understanding of what 'Being Alive' was really about.
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Indeed, throughout Mr. Fink's photography career, he has plumbed similar themes, notably the problems and pride of being alive in a specific time.
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"People seated inside seem to get a heightened awareness of being alive because of the changing light and the acoustics," Mr. Girardoni said.
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Better known for authority, she was also adept at the brand of dreaminess that permeates Debussy's embrace of being alive in a sunset.
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Abounding with wacky figures of different sizes cavorting and contorting in brightly colored scenes, her oeuvre feels like a celebration of being alive.
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"Being alive is overrated," one entry reads, punctuated with an expletive, above a drawing of a handgun going off with the word "ready?" underneath.
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It's asking its audience to empathize with why everyone is so heated, angry, terrified, and exhausted by the experience of being alive in 2018.
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That's fine and normal, because we've all tacitly accepted that as part of the bargain of being alive, which again, we did not choose.
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Other moments that stand out are those that expose the awkward—and sometimes hilarious—incongruity of still being alive in the face of death.
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Jordan reluctantly bails his mom out of jail, and we finally learn a little more about why he lied about his mother being alive.
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I think that watching that trial, and just being alive and young and black at that point, was a huge turning point for me.
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"Playing with the magic ambiguity of masks represents an occasion to recover the creative roots of our being alive," the Gucci press release read.
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It's a flex, and a reminder of the heaviness of being alive, the ultimate promise of what Baby and Gunna can bring us together.
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"At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face," wrote Albert Camus of the strangeness of being alive.
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It is an attempt to compel behavior not as a result of making a choice, like driving, but as a matter of being alive.
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The give-away, Maezawa added, is driven by a curiosity about universal basic income — a system that essentially pays someone simply for being alive.
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As if I were somehow thieving people of their grief by still being alive, by reminding them that he was played by an actor.
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Pick some point in time and the wavefunction will give you some odds of something being true at that point (the cat being alive, say).
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In response, people were sad, and sometimes defiant, because eating cookie dough is one of the great pleasures of being alive, along with petting dogs.
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Needless to say, there wasn't a lot of intel shared about Moriarty, who shocked fans at the end of Season 3 by apparently being alive.
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"We used to get positive psychoterratic feedback between the Earth and ourselves as a natural part of being alive and human," Albrecht said over Skype.
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It was true that I had no idea how to endure being alive and everything that comes with it. Responsibility. Love. Death. Sex. Loneliness. History.
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The lines would seem cold if they weren't so damn funny, and clinical if he didn't include himself in the cosmic joke of being alive.
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The humor isn't borne of people staying the same; instead, the humor comes from the friction of being alive and having to grow despite itself.
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The episode just briefly addresses the whole question of why people seek out experiences that scare them, because they feel relief at being alive afterward.
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"I've never seen this country so happy about a political decision in my entire time of being alive," she told Rolling Stone a year later.
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And so being alive is a kind of sleight of hand trick, where you know death could be coming, but you also don't really know.
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The idea is to give everybody a living wage (or the equivalent of that in tax credits, or some other scheme) simply for being alive.
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Across 12 tracks, McCallion and Dey unfurl all sorts of existential anxieties—spilling all the discomfort that comes from being alive in the internet age.
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"You're not trying to arouse anyone, it's just a statement for the pleasure of being alive and having contact with other human beings," he says.
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But however neatly they track with Beckett's tramps, Moses and Kitch are up against something more specifically threatening than the baseline tragedy of being alive.
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You don't read Robert Frost or listen to Aaron Copland to be entertained, but to be given some understanding of the mystery of being alive.
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The great risk of being alive, nearly all of Ms. Fox's work seemed to say, is that anything can happen to anyone at any time.
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It aims to test whether giving people an unconditional stipend — essentially paying them simply for being alive — could reduce the city&aposs poverty and inequality.
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We can only guess at the memories attached, or the hopeful desires for a day away from the hospitals or hospice to enjoy being alive.
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You fizz and teem and tingle, talking at breakneck speed, gesticulating wildly, possessed by the immensity of being alive and pissed on a Saturday night.
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Walker has been collaborating with Tononi's team on studies of real and artificial cell cycles, with preliminary indications that integrated information might correlate with being alive.
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Is there some reason to believe that the difference between being alive in 2015 versus 2000 is way bigger than it was from 1995 to 1975?
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Seeing classic actors from any era of Hollywood — from Buster Keaton to Michael Keaton — walk across a screen filled me with an excitement for being alive.
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"This happened 25 years ago today and not a day goes by that I have not counted my blessing for being alive," Brinkley captioned the post.
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What ensues is a quietly electrifying rendition of "Being Alive" that might not be structurally necessary, but offers a reflective moment of respite and simple beauty.
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They might bring me consolation in a moment of grief; they might, with their hypnotic, circular poetry, tell me something about the mystery of being alive.
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Both bands play like they're daring you to punch them in the face, because, well, that's a lot of what being alive right now feels like.
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To live fully, in the moment, and cease entertaining the "what ifs" that threatened to rob me of being alive — and thriving — alongside my littlest girl.
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This new, less dilatory mode doesn't ask to be understood, but haunts us with a bleakly dead-on, diffident humor about the pain of being alive.
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When three years go by and Luke finds himself in Canada with news about Offred being alive, it should be a moment that swells with longing.
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The difference between being alive and dead is, on this measure, easy to express: Death represents the end of QALYs, a zero stretching out into infinitude.
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It makes me feel like a woman in a 19th-century novel emerging from a fever: enfeebled, glassy-eyed, humbled by the gift of being alive.
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Michael being alive is no new theory, and there is certainly compelling evidence that he went undercover to save his loved ones by faking his own death.
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Despite the fact that baking is supposed to be a salve for the anxiety of being alive in 553, it has been a difficult year for cookies.
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I swung my head to the left to fling the phone away, and held my new daughter in my arms, who was incredibly shouty about being alive.
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It was a celebration not just of their enormous achievement, but of Broadway itself, and of the joy of being alive right now in New York City.
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Later in Fire and Blood, she's mentioned as still being alive and well in Volantis, after becoming wildly rich as the owner of a famous pleasure house.
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Her "sorry" speech fillers become a poignant moment towards the end of the film, when she encourages another faceless young woman not to apologize for being alive.
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As most adults know, exercise is an important part of being alive and healthy — and even my lazy ass can recognize that my sedentary lifestyle isn't ideal.
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For Baskets, there's prime comedy to be mined from the worst parts of being alive: loneliness, jealousy, damaged psyches and families that do more harm than good.
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"We got engaged because we decided to sort of celebrate life, and celebrate being alive," she said on The View earlier this month after announcing her engagement.
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The mere chance of her being alive seems a surprisingly merciful move from the folks in charge — then again, she's nothing to them but a fertile womb.
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Whether it be the hypocrisies and pressures of the moment or the more long-standing problems with being alive, and all the ways those two categories collide.
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No TV show is as interested in how simply being alive can turn you into a villain — no matter how much you might hope not to be.
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It's a song about being alive in a world which demands that when we suffer abuse, we silence ourselves…and about essentially refusing to let that happen.
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Where boys have been told that their misbehaviors will be rewarded, girls have been reminded over and over that they are imperiled by virtue of being alive.
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I wanted to know what being alive would feel like if I deprived all senses of stimulation, reduced to the simple issue of breathing or not breathing.
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This set him apart from his predecessor, Benigno S. Aquino, who once castigated survivors for complaining about their hardships instead of being grateful for still being alive.
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Charlie's is the big-belt ballad "Being Alive," an instant sympathy-monger, drawing the listener into the heart of his struggle to embrace the need for connection.
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Part of the genius of Now Only is in moments like that one—where he is able to find the humor in the absurdity of being alive.
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Though I don't know what my future holds, I'm overwhelmed with a gratitude I didn't have before my diagnosis — some days I marvel at just being alive.
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Of course (spoiler) Walt Whitman being alive in any type of sequel wouldn't work, but if there is some sort of flashback or flash forward, then he's ready.
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We are united, in that we are all human beings and we are all together on this horrible, painful, joyous, exciting, and mysterious ride that is being alive.
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He attracted a loyal following by describing a future in which everyone was remunerated for the work of being alive and helping their family members and creating art.
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To be aware of that is to freeze up at the sheer happenstance of being alive, but we can take little glimpses at the devastation here and there.
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Colon: We want the mainstream media and the world to know the intricacies and dynamics of being alive in a Latino community, the need for culturally competent services.
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Even if we decide to tune out this fundamental feeling, it's still there, and being alive in a meaningful way means managing and appreciating pressure, not avoiding it.
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It's strange then that something as naturally joyous as music is usually used by humans to drive themselves deeper into the mire of woe that is being alive.
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At first blush, basic income — a proposal where every American gets a regular stipend from the government, just for being alive — sounds like a radical, even absurd, idea.
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Ryan's statement appears that it could keep the Senate bill, whatever it ends up being, alive for the time being if it satisfies the Graham-McCain-Johnson concerns.
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From blob-like jellyfish to rock-like lichens, our planet teems with such diversity of life that it is difficult to recognise some organisms as even being alive.
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Meanwhile, mini-brains have the advantage of being alive and able to exhibit "spontaneous electrical activity," but they're not conscious in the way that a living brain is .
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His music conjures a sense of exhaustion, because hey, being alive is hard, even if you're a multimillionaire rock legend, or just some Brooklyn writer girl listening along.
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One of the odd luxuries of being alive is this feeling of currency: that each of us, however humble, represents breaking news 13 billion years in the making.
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Whether it's delivering scallops or "Being Alive," there's pressure to live up to both a past performance and the expectations of a persona: Can I do this again?
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Jenny Offill's Weather is a novel about living at the end of the world, which is to say that it is a novel about being alive right now.
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I love seeing women in clothes and makeup that express their joy in fashion and in being alive, and I look forward to seeing tons more of it.
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The materials and the body of the artist cooperate toward an intensification that can best be thought of as ontological — art as a eurythmic, responsive mode of being alive.
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"In my case, I treasure my family much, much more because you realize that the difference being alive and dead is the difference of a little fingernail," she says.
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I hope that people can also see throughout all these pictures that no matter how strange and unexpected the world is, there's a degree of joy in being alive.
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The series, which is set in the years following a vaguely spiritual mass disappearance called the Sudden Departure, has always explored existential themes surrounding the mystery of being alive.
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To keep his family in the loop on his location and likelihood of still being alive, he created an app that automatically updated his loved ones on his location.
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"God only chooses the people who can handle it and I feel thankful and blessed for what I have – still being alive, my family, my doctors, my supporters, everyone."
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While there are monsters galore, it's best when it exploits the fact that it's a very human drama, and explores the fears that are attached simply to being alive.
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Being alive doesn't appear to be a requirement for activating Touch ID, as evidenced by this YouTube video that shows a fingerprint replica being attached to a foam finger.
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His proffered answer to bullshitization is a "universal basic income": pay everyone a regular sum just for being alive, and let them decide what to do with their time.
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Then you're back on a steep climb, weighed down with stress, anxiety and the general malaise that affects every human attempting to navigate the challenging maze of being alive.
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There are websites devoted to prosciutto, which requires only salt, patience and the optimism of being alive in the year or so an entire pig leg takes to dry.
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It's a sentiment wistfully embodied in the ballad "Being Alive" from "Company," a song repurposed in the 2019 Noah Baumbach movie "Marriage Story" for Adam Driver's divorce-mauled husband.
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Versace is depicted as wanting to show gratitude for being alive despite having received a diagnosis of what we're led to believe is HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
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Season two has been far more interested in the ways that simply being alive makes you complicit in somebody's oppression somewhere, and the wide shots were instrumental to that.
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The gaze in each face is serenely endless, but the skin is always unsettled, and this technique works because skin being alive imparts the impression of breath inhabiting it.
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The planet has gone quiet, so quiet you can almost hear it whirling around the sun, feel its smallness, picture for once the loneliness and fleetingness of being alive.
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But there's a depressive sense that the play itself, like the older Irene, is only going through the motions of being alive, while remembering earlier times — or earlier plays.
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In a vast glass cabinet filled with marine animals of all shapes, sizes, colours, and degrees of being alive, this one is arguably the least appealing to the eye.
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He's hit by a car, leans on its hood, and lets out a manic laugh which rings with the sheer pleasure of being alive and not giving a fuck.
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He didn't directly address the hoax at the time – he just continued being alive until people got the picture – but it seems that being twice proclaimed dead is the limit.
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Hank took over as headmaster after Xavier's mistakes with Jean's childhood came to light (he lied about her father being alive and mentally blocked her memories of her mother's death).
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"We are united in that we are all human beings, and we are all together on this horrible, painful, joyous, exciting and mysterious ride that is being alive," Harbour said.
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In particular, Cleeremans is interested in how the brain produces consciousness: what functions are happening in which parts of the brain that sparks this feeling of being alive and aware.
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A theory floating around the internet after episode 5 hinges on Jamie maybe being alive, considering that none of the cast have posted farewell tributes to actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
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In fact, setting aside my own bias toward being alive, I have never met someone — even someone in truly dire and painful circumstances — who is fine being killed without consent.
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Being Buddhist—that is, simply practicing Vipassana, or "insight" meditation—will make you feel better about being alive, he believes, and he shows how you can and why it does.
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"We are united in that we are all human beings and we are all together on this horrible, painful, joyous, exciting and mysterious ride that is being alive," he said.
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Pollock's, aside from a little love and friendship, lies in stories, in literature, in the ability of books — of all genres and brows — to ease the pain of being alive.
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Stallone didn't directly address the hoax at the time – he just continued being alive until people got the picture – but it seems that being twice proclaimed dead is the limit.
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It's hard to be surprised by virtually any news item in this jittery, anxiety-induced shared delusion called "being alive in 2018," but the simulation spit out a doozy yesterday.
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From their interactions between their body and various equipment (slammed doors, clattering photocopiers, shouting "FUCK!" directly at a laptop screen); and from the general background static of them being alive.
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Yet in Ms. Waller-Bridge's rendering, an ugly, unprintable two-word exclamation somehow encompasses self-destructiveness, self-assertiveness, self-consciousness — and the unconditional thrill and muddle of simply being alive.
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We bring people close in the presence of food and drink so that we can feed one another, cheer one another and revel in our sheer pleasure at being alive.
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"In the past years Iran has tried to find out his state but could not find any signs of him being alive," spokesman Abbas Mousavi said, according to state television.
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The construction and policing of the all important boundary between camps has come to feel like one of the daily burdens of being alive in the age of social media.
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It evokes the chaos of being alive in 2018—the age of the infinite scroll—and yet it's colorful and attention-grabbing enough stand out in the midst of it.
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Therefore this piece of writing won't promote it in the way that I would like to, since I think every living human being alive right now should see this film.
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If you enjoy music that resonates with your dizzying emotional anxieties, your complexes, and the dreadful intensity of being alive and/or in love, then the Weezer for you are back.
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So, she returns to the warehouse, and takes out her emotions — the thrill of being alive, of being almost free — by having loads of sex all over the warehouse with Nick.
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There were wigged rave parties in Stella's hospital room, trips for Stella to go find herself in Paris, and absolutely none of the unavoidable chaos that naturally comes with being alive.
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Only two Muffins, 2146 or so nuggets, two Quarter Pounders, chicken burger, milkshake, and bottle of water to go to get my gold medal for being absolutely terrible at being alive.
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In "Pygmalion and Galatea," Singer has the stone statue Galatea expressing joy in the prospect of simply being alive, implying that Pygmalion is merely her vessel for having her wish granted.
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From the very first note on "Long Lonely Road" to the joyful trumpet that closes the record 11 songs later, June's self-described "organic moonshine roots music" ultimately celebrates being alive.
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And if you are #woke about the KKK being alive and well in America, all I can say is: keep watching "United Shades" this season -- there's more you need to see.
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Whenever anybody on screen takes a moment to express an emotion or ponder the phenomenon of being alive, you want to tell him to shut up and get back to work.
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Both involve songs from Stephen Sondheim's "Company": "You Could Drive a Person Crazy," a jaunty complaint about falling for a charming narcissist; and "Being Alive," a heartfelt lament about being one.
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There are nights spent staring at the ceiling, worrying about the conversation you had earlier in the day when they told you they don't see the point of being alive anymore.
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"I hope the government of Iran appreciates that the value that Baquer Namazi might serve is dependent on his being alive — particularly if there was a prisoner swap," Mr. Genser said.
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A week into being alive, for no discernible reason, my daughter realized she hated everyone and everything, except her sole hobby of screaming bloody murder at all hours of the night.
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The food is phenomenal, wine is fantastic, service is world-class, and my date is the cutest and funniest being alive who loves me for my eccentricities instead of despite them.
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I had stopped impulsively checking TikTok after a month—I already have enough digital tools to insure that I never need to sit alone with the simple fact of being alive.
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Adults are lethargic, weary, and have lost the sensation of being alive, since their children have drained it from them; children are exuberant and need to move or else be distracted.
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And although I understand the impulse to squeeze excitement out of this chance to live, there's no new experience that can come close to the thrill I've had of simply being alive.
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You feel as though you're pleasantly outside yourself—not enough to be alarming or disorienting, but enough to make you feel alienated from your sense of shame and trepidation at being alive.
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Perhaps he knew that at age 99, distant travel was a risk, but he wanted to experience fully the joys of being alive, and he did just that almost to the end.
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Lasting Love is out today, a new kind of waking dream nested in a series, each as unbelievable as the next, held within the miracle of my being alive to read it.
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Francis Ngannou -- the man Dana White says is the next UFC superstar -- tells TMZ Sports he hits so freakin' hard there literally ain't a human being alive who could eat his punch.
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Even if you brush and floss the recommended amount with the aid of whitening toothpaste, the simple act of being alive seems to be in constant opposition to a bright, white smile.
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Conducted by the left-leaning Roosevelt Institute, the study investigated three strategies for implementing basic income, a form of wealth distribution that involves giving everyone a standard salary just for being alive.
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But Nicole's number, an up-tempo comedy trio she sings with her mother and sister, is "You Could Drive a Person Crazy," a song not about being alive but about being annoyed.
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"Being alive, knowing my husband and my kids got out alive, that's all I ever wanted," Butts, 28, said by phone from a Red Cross evacuation shelter at Bidwell Junior High School.
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Whether or not you claim to be an expert on Catholic canon law, the writer of these lines above surely deserves credit for being alive to the shifting realities of the modern world.
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Both in life and when playing himself on HBO's new semi-autobiographical comedy Crashing, Pete Holmes is a beaming labradoodle of a man who thinks being alive is just the most amazing thing.
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This skillful demonstration of the disease known as being alive, as diagnosed by a master playwright, is one I would recommend to any actor, student of literature or fan of tragedy and comedy.
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"Lots of times the main story we talk about is pretty irrelevant to the week, but pretty relevant, we would argue, to the concept of being alive," he said in a recent interview.
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Wherever Raúl Esparza goes, it seems, people expect him to sing "Being Alive," the heart-rending Stephen Sondheim ballad from "Company," for which he earned a lead actor Tony Award nomination in 2007.
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Mr. Allman's rolling piano riff is part gospel, part Mardi Gras mambo, and his lyrics fight their way out of mourning toward gratitude for being alive as Dickey Betts's slide guitar pushes ahead.
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After all, just by being alive and working on my laptop and having this lamp turned on, I am creating very small carbon emissions that are contributing to the death of the planet!
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" The character of the art he is making nowadays, he noted, as well as the attitude he brings to creating it, "is not about optimism or about tragedy; it's just about being alive.
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Searcy is drawn instinctively to moments, the way parcels of time expand and contract in memory, conjuring from ordinary experience a hidden sense of all that is extraordinary in the world, in being alive.
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"I want to tell my family now to be thankful that all these people out here and be thankful for being alive... That's all," said Joe Hamilton one of the soldiers at the base.
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As she says, the "ghostly survival [of such art] implies not only the unknown past (and a future when you will not be) but also ongoing possibility in being alive, just now" (p. 154).
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" Yesterday we took a family trip together for the first time in years to the happiest place on Earth, to celebrate my still being alive (and to do research)!" he wrote in the caption.
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The most contrived or intentional Vines nevertheless usually had something awkward about their pacing or focus or production, the natural result of being built linearly on the fly, the way being alive is built.
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She had third-stage melanoma, with a five-year survival rate between 59 and 78 percent—meaning she had a 59 to 78 percent change of still being alive five years after being diagnosed.
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But their grandeur is of an unusual kind: These are portraits of black people, in cluttered domestic interiors or Edenic outdoor settings, clothed or nude, carrying on the business of being alive and fabulous.
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These books can turn a holiday like Hanukkah into an artifact in a museum, something that seems to have been practiced authentically only in the past as opposed to being alive and thriving today.
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Call Me by Your Name isn't a novel about coming out so much as it is a novel about growing up, and those moments that, for better or worse, remind you of being alive.
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And that was really fun — it felt like a four-year conversation among a lot of really smart and funny people about what's the best way to just approach the impossibility of being alive.
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In the midst of detailing the messiness of a split that left him couch-less, Charlie abruptly gets up, grabs the mic and starts belting out Sondheim's "Being Alive," from the 1970 music Company.
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In the reckoning that is Skeleton Tree, the 59-year-old advances perhaps the greatest wisdom of his hero's legacy: That, in ceding to the paradox and futility of simply being alive, we find grace.
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Will that generation miss their innocence, the golden glow of being alive in the summer of the year 2000 when it felt like America was the dream we'd always been taught to expect for ourselves?
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It's barely enough time for me to hear how he is after I've unloaded my litany of gnat-level annoyances that develop over the course of an average day as a byproduct of being alive.
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If there had been a belief that one person left alive would care about me not being alive, well, this would undercut everything, and this 3 second section did so for me on this song.
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" His fantasies were imbued with descriptive detail and what a character in his 23 book "Forgotten Life" (a suicidal giant sloth who collects folk music) celebrated as "the simple and intricate feeling of being alive.
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Great Performers The Times critics Wesley Morris and A.O. Scott discuss how the year's best acting showed us two kinds of power: One found in professional experience, the other in the experience of being alive.
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Given its seeming contradiction — shallow and profound, uplifting and elegiac — Ms. Oliver's verse is perhaps best read as poetic portmanteau, one that binds up both the primal joy and the primal melancholy of being alive.
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" Although she adored the entire note, Ripa, who married Consuelos when they chose to elope on May 1, 1996, highlighted that she "loved that he says, 'It's been Gucci being alive, so thanks for getting together.
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The reckoning with losses fair and unfair, not all the way into surrender but at least enough to afford a little bit of shade and peace and understanding, is part of the work of being alive.
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I actually spent some portion of the scene — the part where he sits up and gasps, as if he's hyperventilating — wondering if he was going to have a heart attack from the shock of being alive.
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The more I viewed my life as something to be consumed by other people, capitalizing on all the pain and pleasure and resentment and fear that come along with being alive, the more compulsively I posted.
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Pop culture would have the world believe that being alive for 100+ years makes people live like men out of time, with old-school politeness and a fantastic wardrobe, but Preacher calls bullshit on that trope.
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"The consumer being alive and well is a positive, but just after eight days of being higher, the market's looking for a reason" to pull back, said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at B. Riley FBR.
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Trauma produces "a re-calibration of the brain's alarm system, an increase in stress hormone activity" and, also, "compromises the brain area that communicates the physical, embodied feeling of being alive," Mr. van der Kolk writes.
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Take the single "Being Alive," set in part at the defunct Bushwick venue Goodbye Blue Monday, where at 16 Ms. Kline once contributed "really bad, nerdy drumming" to a performance by her first band, Milk Ghost.
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But being alive doesn't mean she's safe, and Tara has become the target of Dax Blackwell, a youthful hit man who has the colossal nerve to pose as a friend and visit her in the hospital.
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The latter production captivated Mr. Harper, a single father who first thought of a female Bobby after repeatedly listening to the character's signature ballad, "Being Alive," after the premature birth of his twins via a surrogate.
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Part of what makes Sandra Bullock Sandra Bullock is seeing her characters sweat — no matter how shrewd or innocent, bungling or smooth — whether she's doing hard labor or merely dewy from the effort of being alive.
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The show is suggesting that the real victory of being alive is just putting these things in the front of your brain and attempting all the time to be a better person than you were yesterday.
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I think sometimes I'm back to being a 9-year-old (only with a creakier body), filled with joy at being alive and with none of the damage that the raging rivers of hormones later inflict.
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" Friends say that as FX's new series approaches, those who knew Gianni are focused on celebrating what was best about him: his intelligence and what Rubenstein terms his "creative genius and his absolute joy about being alive.
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All manner of being alive is equally fraught — sleeping through the night is not fun or a good idea if you're menstruating, for example, nor is it possible if you have a cold or a recurring nightmare.
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I feel like almost every event and everything that happens surrounds you on all sides," he says, "It's trying to capture some of the experiences of being alive now in all its flaws and all its glory.
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Brace yourself for the delivery of a new replicant, not born as a baby but slithering out from a plastic sheath as an instant adult, slimy with fabricated vernix and quaking at the shock of being alive.
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Dafoe's intensity is undimmed (he seems not to have aged since his jungly exertions in "Platoon," more than thirty years ago), and, as for van Gogh, he was worn and torn by the strain of being alive.
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He became a bit emotional and said when he was on the moon closing the mission, he looked up and saw our planet and realized that, at that moment, he was the most solitary human being alive.
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"It's about how people are trying to deal with being alive in the world, and struggling to fulfill their dreams, and it invites the bigger questions — the stuff of plays and art and songs," Mr. McPherson said.
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Of course the animated Netflix show about a depressed, alcoholic horse who doesn't know how to be a better person is the one that best captured the sometimes wild, sometimes anhedonic experience of being alive right now.
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The lack of preexisting conditions protections, then, is a tax on being human, because the Senate is proposing shifting life-ruining costs of simply being alive onto most Americans for the sake of saving money for a few.
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Pain has always been the price of being alive, but according to the National Institutes of Health, more than one in 10 American adults say that some part of their body hurts some or all of the time.
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Whether she's falling flat on her face or co-opting the resistance in the name of soda pop, Kendall Jenner is the the perfect blank canvas on which to paint the specific anxieties of being alive in 2017.
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Though Vigoda achieved a good bit of fame from his 21990s "Godfather" role, his years on "Barney Miller" and the short-lived spinoff "Fish," he arguably became best known for being alive despite reports of his premature demise.
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As Mercado puts it: "Just like being alive in itself, it's so beautiful to have and to know that you exist, and that there's no one in this world — or universe, for that matter — that's just like you."
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But these humble descriptions betray that this is a record of great complexity, of elegantly crafted lines detailing those hard to untangle thoughts about the stresses and satisfactions of being alive in a world so overwhelming as ours.
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She pretends to be much healthier than she is—she gives "a tremendous performance of being alive," in Garner's savage phrase—and is committed to a kind of social fraudulence that saddens and then gradually enrages her host.
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By viewing these normal moments through Harvey's eyes, we understand how she defines being alive: with dentures in a glass, a lone Christmas lawn ornament against charcoal clouds, a child peering out the back windshield of a red truck.
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Singleness begins to permeate through life, from the big events right down to the mundane muscle memory motions, to the point where there's nothing about being alive that doesn't remind single women that they are, at all times, failing.
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People describe love as this wonderful beautiful crazy thing that adds to the mystery of being alive, but in my opinion it's really just wanting to bury your face in someone's sweaty armpit because it smells so fucking good.
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Songs like "Learn to Let Go"—with its group vocals, pulsing drum, and sudden tempo changes—or "Boogie Feet"—a celebration of being alive featuring the Eagles of Death Metal—both renovate Kesha's pop-heavy foundation and solidify them.
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I told God that I wanted to live in accordance with my beliefs, that I wanted to diminish my sense of self-importance, that I was sorry for not being better, and that I was grateful for being alive.
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Image: Simon LewisA newly-discovered peatland in the Congo Basin of central Africa contains an estimated 22016 billion tons of carbon in its waterlogged soils—equivalent to three times the total annual carbon emissions of every human being alive today.
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"There was a moment that I realized that if I wanted to continue being alive that I would have to have some hard conversations with myself," Wise says, placing his hands on the table and staring me in the eyes.
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That's why in September, Steininger became one of the first people in her state to vote in person for Hillary Clinton for president, taking one step closer to fulfilling her wish of being alive if Clinton makes history in November.
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"Driving my Tesla, over and over and over there are unusual situations on any road anywhere and every single human being alive — dumb or smart — would be able to get through it and the Tesla can't," the Apple co-founder says.
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In 1975, somebody diagnosed with leukemia in the United States had a 33 percent chance of being alive five years later, a common cutoff point to measure cancer survival; by 2010, that survival rate had doubled, to almost 50 percent.
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Pacey said that the he felt "very uncomfortable with the idea," and advocated using more resources to recruit younger, healthy, willing donors "who stand a good chance of being alive when the donor-conceived person starts to become curious about them."
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Charlie's impromptu performance of "Being Alive," the closing number from the Stephen Sondheim musical "Company," feels like a statement of purpose from Baumbach, who has come to see divorce as more than a rupture, and instability as a challenge worth confronting.
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In terms of the experience of being alive today — and three years ago and three years from now — if you are DACA, or potentially DACA, that is this experience of fear that it can all be taken away in a second.
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A tiny golden balance wheel spins back and forth, regulating the time (think of a pendulum swinging on a grandfather clock, but at a tremendously fast clip), and this action, to many viewers, gives the watch the appearance of being alive.
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The idea of a universal basic income — a check sent out by the government to every American, no strings attached, just for being alive — is sometimes decried as un-American, as a way for people to get money they didn't work for.
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That even in a place as demanding and as dark as 9/11, the joy of being alive in that place and making photographs to keep a record like everything else in the book is the underlying optimistic factor in the work.
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But I always used to say if they're going to go in—nobody cared that much but it got written about—if they're going to go in—I'm sure you've heard the statement because I made it more than any human being alive.
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In Radcliffe's oft-depressing worldview, concepts like truth, trust, and interpersonal love dissolve amidst the existential anxiety that's part of being alive in this day and age, but you know, it sounds nice, making a case for at least a little hope.
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"I think you can be happy to be born and to have the experience of being alive ... but that doesn't mean that your lived experience is going to be a generally positive one, if you have no family to care for you."
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The series has never shied away from the depressing realities and complexities of simply being alive but has dove headfirst into them, fully committing to accurately telling the stories that sitcoms like to ignore or gloss over in a Very Special Episode.
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The Leftovers, then, is the first TV show I can think of that actively engages with a world where the uncertainty that is core to simply being alive has caused a lot of us to carve out our own completely separate experiences of reality.
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Photo: George, et al (Science Robotics)Perhaps one of the profound yet underappreciated aspects of being alive is the ability to reach out with your hand and feel the world around you—whether it's fresh-cut grass or the face of a loved one.
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Maybe there are other subjects that can get our juices flowing, get us pumped about being alive and inspire musicians to create with enough passion that will have us ugly crying on the sticky club floor at closing time because we relate so hard.
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By the time Roth was in his seventies, he would open his eyes in the morning and experience a moment of ecstatic surprise: he had pulled it off again, stolen another taste of being alive, a self, conscious of the beautiful and chaotic world.
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If you strip away all the hows, whys, wheres, and whats that we spend our time preoccupied with in hope that the answers will ascribe some concrete meaning to being alive, there's really nothing to do besides step outside and hope for the best.
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" The pope also talked about finding meaning in life and expressed his concern for "young people who waste their lives looking for thrills or a feeling of being alive by taking dark paths and in the end having to pay for it, and pay dearly.
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Because as directed by a feverishly inventive Alex Timbers, and starring Alex Brightman as the manic ghoul of the title, this production proposes that not being alive just means that you have to try harder — a whole lot harder — than you ever did before.
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Franklin understood, though, that the energies deployed to exalt a Higher Power could also heal a broken heart, revel in romance, celebrate the simple pleasure of being alive and, as she asserted in the 1967 single that announced her superstardom to the world, demand respect.
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That's everybody losing because you're losing out on an important aspect of being alive on Earth, and you're losing out on what you could contribute to a group of people, whether it's a group of people that works together or lives together or whatever.
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According Daily Beast reporter Maxwell Tani, host Terry Gross offered Driver the option of removing his headphones when Fresh Air played back the clip of Driver singing "Being Alive" from Company in the Netflix film, but Driver left the interview when the clip was played.
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But instead of getting stoked about seeing lions and cheetahs, I was consumed with thoughts of finding relief from the burden of being alive—some way to opt out of coping with all that I could not—as I felt my life had no value.
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If you find yourself in these places, you will perhaps experience a sequence where you are stopped motionless, something like a prolonged sigh, a feeling of being alive in the exact middle of a moment that is messy and ragged and yet all of it somehow synchronized.
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The show's ensemble is note-perfect, and its vision of the titular store as a microcosm of a country trying to keep a smile on its face even as it probably shouldn't made it the show that, in 221, felt most like being alive right now.
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If liberal democracy is incapable of delivering the basic conditions required for democratic participation—"being alive on a not-dead planet, not in a cage, enfranchised, not starving and sick"—then it is our duty, she argued, to question such a system and to challenge it.
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What the world lacks right now in environmental variety—what a treat it was to reach the town of Lestallum, all street vendors and grimy alleyways, after so many smaller outposts—it makes up for with that feeling of being alive even when you're not looking.
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Hearing the line over and over and over again — sometimes with a little extra flourish or panache, depending on the character or actor saying it — is a hilarious reminder of how many of our favorite movies are full of people who have no business being alive.
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Maybe. But also, as my mom always says, life is for the living; and by quoting her I mean to say that in order to have the strength to fight climate change and coronavirus and everything else, it's important to remember why we love being alive.
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We have such limited abilities when it comes to controlling the world we develop superficial techniques to strain and sort out parts of life—like bread—and think that by engaging in this pathetic editing effort, we're somehow gaining dominion over the otherwise chaotic whirlwind of being alive.
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I knew it was a survival film, but I was very much in love with the simplicity of the story: the difference between surviving and being alive, and not being alone in the world, not being able to give up and die because somebody is holding your hand.
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Daily we summon gratitude for the fact of being alive and together, for family support, for the means to buy groceries, for the two little fast-beating hearts that warm our home, for art and beautiful things, and for the part we will play in whatever comes next.
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I love Company and I have a lot of opinions about "Being Alive," and I don't think Marriage Story particularly earned its use of the song — it felt like the movie was drafting off someone else's work to create a character epiphany it hadn't justified on its own.
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One reason Roots is so successful is because it tells a story about slavery all Americans must hear via a story every human being alive can relate to on some level — the webs of family that tie us to the past and extend beyond us into the future.
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Ejections, suspensions, the PURE JOY OF BEING ALIVE, all of it, baby, it's the best shit, the stuff you're entirely too ashamed to admit you watch sports for, wonderful dumb fight, millions of iconic little moments strung into one package, no one really got hurt, TEN OUT OF TEN STARS.
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It's about how the world takes on a tinge of magic when you're open to the idea that what's weird about being alive doesn't have to be any more complicated than the way that, sometimes, exactly the person you need to know walks into your life at exactly the right moment.
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Lil Skies and other adjacent rappers are the ones who'll be playing in the background when these kids have their first kisses, go through their first heartbreaks, celebrate their first true triumphs in life, and generally have initial contact with the experiences that are a part of what being alive is.
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Each line is deliberate; the narrative builds from opener "Souls of the Nearly Departed" and runs through a litany of tortured subject matter, from the pain and anguish of being alive to the damage we've done to this world and the inevitable destruction that will be left in our wake.
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Witnessing people in circumstances that have conspired to warp their sensory faculties and to reduce them to passivity, music therapists offer patients perhaps the only activity conceivable — that of listening — as a pathway to becoming sensate and thus incontestably attuned to the animating realization of still being alive and responsive.
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Though the music Mr. Watanabe used to open his show, Marvin Gaye's masterpiece "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)," features lyrics both ominous and prophetic of global warming, its melody is sublime enough that it was impossible for those in attendance not to feel the glory of being alive and in Paris.
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Now the alcohol is wearing off, and perhaps reality is settling in just a little, and Erie stands at the center of what "Hughie" is about (in addition to O'Neill's nostalgia for the slang of the era): how you can be held captive by the guilt you feel at being alive.
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Sure, there are a fair share of songs about heartbreak and the odd questionable tale of a fictional baby brother's drowning as a metaphor for a relationship, but a substantial chunk of their discography—Digital Ash in a Digital Urn, especially—is just about being alive and how stupidly difficult it can be.
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Remember that with just a little bit of self-care each day, the depression will lift I think we've finally hit on what annoys me most about the commercialization of self-care: the idea that if we just take enough soothing actions then we won't be tormented by the horror of being alive.
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In fact, they are marvelously, toe-tappingly celebratory, and they come the closest that this show ever does to the great idea that being alive in this world, as we casually contemplate each other flouncing around in the local corner store, might be pleasurable and neighborly and more than a tad sexy.
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With "Praying," produced by Macklemore's former partner Ryan Lewis, Kesha ditches the slacker party-girl persona that made her a star and returns as a wronged, righteous survivor, overcoming psychological abuse and suicidal depression: "Please just let me die/Being alive hurts too much," she says in the video's minute-long spoken introduction.
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It feels like being alive in the way so few TV shows do, where half the pleasure is in how Adlon captures, say, the easy bonhomie of old friends coming together for a graduation party, or Sam's mother, Phil, looking back on a life tinged with sadness while playing cards with her friends.
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Thoughts that had been slow-dripping into my developing brain—vague preoccupations with lust and death; questions such as "why do I feel terrible all the time" and "literally what is the point of being alive" that I'd been too afraid and ill-equipped to vocalize—were presented before me, clear as a polished mirror.
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Because what True Detective season three excelled at most was capturing a feeling, a particular sense of being alive right now in a world that feels mired in byzantine deals that were struck by the powerful to exploit the powerless, deals we barely understand and can only catch glimpses of amid all-consuming darkness.
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He couldn't have been conscious for longer than an hour, but—despite being warned that the worst might happen, and despite the fact that apparently the worst actually did happen momentarily last night—already, for him at least, the joy one might feel at still being alive seems to have worn off a little.
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Doing so is immoral — not in a religious sense, but in reference to morality's origins, the evolution of a sense of fairness among members of a social species, which early on came to include a human recognition that other creatures enjoy being alive and that depriving them of life is a very serious matter.
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But of course, early the next morning we—meaning all of us, around the country—woke up to the news that some lunatic man with an assault weapon had opened fire in a gay bar, executing 20—no, then it was 49—people for the sin of dancing, hanging out with their friends, and enjoying being alive.
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The first steps are simple: to be humble in the face of what we don't know, to be respectful of nature and its powers, and to work together to preserve not just our lives and those of our loved ones, but the lives of all of us in the hive, young and old, celebrating the gift of being alive.
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Given that it only goes about 18 miles per hour, you might have to figure out how (that shouldn't be a problem, considering you built a working car out of Lego), but please: do it in the name of gratification, of being alive, of not bottling up human effort into the mausoleum of a luxury object.
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Even with those machine guns they have, they will not be able to stand [up to] us — this is one of the reasons we can still live today — without this, we cannot stand them, we cannot buy guns, we cannot buy bullets or even a car so we can move — this is our source of being alive.
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You can buy drugs everywhere if you're so inclined, you'll never run out of people to meet because there are a lot of them—they're literally everywhere—and even if you're skint you will find something to do because it's such a huge place and you can just walk around and breathe in the smoggy air and enjoy being alive.
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They convey what Ben Lerner told Mr Berger he appreciated about him in "A Song for Politics": "While there is an unwavering commitment to a recognition of the hell that surrounds us…there is also openness, and attention to the sensual world that doesn't go away…there is a total commitment to being alive, to the possibilities of the moment."
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As a tremulous, moist-eyed Ms. Craig takes center stage at the climax to sing "Being Alive," it's as if a realm of possibility has been revealed like some sort of newly acquired vision, which, come to think of it, is exactly what this "Company" possesses: clarity and insight and the ability to make a time-tested musical feel brand new.
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Late in Marriage Story, each spouse performs part of a song from Stephen Sondheim's musical Company, Nicole gallivanting through "You Could Drive a Person Crazy" with her mother and sister, Charlie ending a night at a bar with a solo rendition of "Being Alive" that's no less affecting for its whiff of a man somewhat trapped in his own theatrical self-pity.
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But Brand New have continually reinvented themselves while fundamentally providing the same thing on each album—namely confirmation that, yeah, being alive is quite difficult if you think about it to any meaningful degree, and that undercurrent of dread which you feel most days is probably justified, and here are 50 minutes worth of relatable reasons why plus some new ones you hadn't even considered.
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In fact, my thoughts of self-harm faded after around six weeks on Citalopram—once, that is, I got through the initial stage of grinding my teeth every night like I'd done a gram of dark web MDMA; or feeling sheer terror at the mere prospect of being alive; or just floating from one day to the next, apathetic about everything going on around me.
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And when she brings her songs to their big moments — she does excel at those that are meant to be acted as well as sung, like Stephen Sondheim's "Being Alive" — the movie delivers a montage assembled from the views of multiple cameras, one swooping in on Ms. Streisand, another pulling back, another fixed in close-up, another taking in the band, finally settling on a shot of an understandably ecstatic audience.
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The book's plot, which involves a botched money handoff, is thorny — at one point Lola thinks of her choice of which drug kingpin to betray as belonging to some "awful romantic comedy" — but makes the usual basic urgent sense: We want Lola (tough, resourceful, tender whenever her circumstances on the periphery of the drug trade allow her to be) to keep being alive, and not start being dead.
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