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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was so in love with books from as early as I remember that it seemed a natural step to want to create them. And so I just wanted to be a writer from a very young age. And I think that the lies were just a natural side effect of me wanting to tell stories and write them down.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother had been blind as a child. And so, blindness was something that has long fascinated me, but also it's something I find really, really scary.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like, so that the best metaphors are clear and sparkling. But I will throw out unread the book that promises me no metaphors inside.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I'd be bending my knees so I'd be shorter.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people judge me because I like to, you know, look good, but I grew up in fashion.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a third-culture child. It's an interesting concept. Having an American father, a South American mother, born in England, grew up in Hong Kong, went to school in Europe - it makes me a third-culture child, which means you take on the culture of the place where you live. So I'm very adaptable.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always did healthy things. I didn't sit around in nightclubs. Sure, I had my fair share of fun, but no one could ever accuse me of being a dilettante and doing nothing. I was always on this unbelievable quest to go and do.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There has been a lot of movement in my family, but in a way, it has been great. It has made me adaptable. I can plonk myself anywhere.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cancer came back into my life twice in order for me to understand something, and I guess I still wasn't getting it. And my husband wasn't getting it, either.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my child's-eye view, whenever I was exposed to pain, it meant that my mother had let me down.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents split up, and a lot of things going on in the outside world made me want to immerse myself in an alternative world.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020