- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I Am Quotes
Quotes that begin with I am.
Each quote here starts with a direct claim of identity - some playful, like calling oneself a ham who likes to joke around, others more reflective, tying personal identity to one's art. Related reading includes Am Quotes.
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm working class. Not because my family have always been skint or because I'm from the grim north, but because I am from a class of people who believe in work. In paying their way.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being married, I've got so many things to do that I am the last to do things for myself. Taking care of my body has been difficult, but I am doing the best that I can.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is.
- Different Parts
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.
- Assumed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years in credit now. I can't get my head around the fact that I am older than he was - ever.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am quite handy; not to sound bragadocious, but I've been working with wood and building things my entire life. I used to be a skateboarder and built ramps with my father. Then, the first two years I lived in Los Angeles, I worked as a carpenter building sets.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am gentle. I think nearly everyone who makes music is sensitive - I don't care how hard they pretend they are.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's largely because I spend my working life staring at a screen and hitting a keyboard, I am trying to cut down on that, not increase it.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020