- Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
Born Quotes
Where you start shapes who you become.
This page gathers quotes about origins in the literal sense — being born into music, born in a specific state or country — alongside a more analytical note on how each generation's tastes differ from the one before it. For more on personal identity, see our Identity quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never conceived of not writing a novel. I believed - oh, God, I believed, it was an article of faith! - I was born to write a novel.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, don't confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother raised me when I was little. I was born here, and my parents are immigrants; they needed someone to help take care of me because they were working a lot, so my grandmother came from Korea. So I'm very close with my grandmother, and I keep in touch with her a lot.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting, producing, writing, directing - it's all part of something that I believe I was born to be part of.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is from Panama; he came to the U.S. in 1971. He came to study chemical engineering at the University of Delaware. He thought he would go back, and then he met my mom here. I was born and mostly raised in Delaware.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is born to eat.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, it's a prequel. It tells the story about how the girls were born with superpowers, but they weren't necessarily heroes at the beginning of this movie, so the movie is about the events that happen in their life to make them decide to be heroes.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was born with no money.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.
- I Was Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not gonna do the same, tired, standard 'I was born in a log cabin...' kind of book. There's so much more I want to do.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.
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- Nov 07, 2020