- People
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I am trying to communicate through my writing. My images are like drawings in a science text book.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to listen to as much as possible. I know some people really try to avoid music when they're writing and recording, but I am very inspired by so many different musicians, and I need to learn.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not defined as a black writer in the Caribbean, but as soon as I go to America or the U.K., my place becomes black theatre. It's a little ridiculous.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am grateful, you know. I have to be grateful in the sense that I feel that what I have is a gift.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am only one-eighth the writer I might have been had I contained all the fragmented languages of Trinidad.
- Edward
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I come to England, I don't claim England; I don't own it. I feel a great kinship because of the literature and the landscape. I have great affection for Edward Thomas and Philip Larkin, but there's still this distance: looking on at what I'm admiring, separate from what I am. And that's OK.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not in England; I live in the Caribbean. So I am not hungover by prizes and awards because it does not happen very often.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The older I get, the more aware I am of the banality and indifference of a place like Trinidad to any development of the arts.
- Geek
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a movie geek, yes!
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am definitely hungry, not only to get better myself, but to win a Super Bowl.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you believe it, you can achieve it and God will be there every step of the way. I am a living testament, man.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's my job. I am just going in there trying to win games. But it is always fun when you are playing football.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a job to me, basically. I'm not trying to be the best fighter in the world or nothing like that. I don't come in trying to think I am the best fighter. I don't care about none of that. It's just a job to me.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people said I would never make it, and this and that, I'd never be a top 10 fighter, that I'd never fight for a title. Just stuff like that. Achieving all those goals and being the person that I am, this is going against everything everyone said I couldn't do.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's usually the way I am - I don't care what my opponent can do. I just focus on myself.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020