- People
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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
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that I like about being me is that everybody gets a different feeling from me.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
They're hit writers. They're gonna write me a hit whether I wanted it or not you know? I could have put out a single a year ago with the Neptunes and maybe been writing now on top but that was not the path that I chose.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a fat kid - FFK, former fat kid - helped round me out, no pun intended. I'm a better adult because I wasn't treated well as a child.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every artist that I've parodied has been cool with it so far. I know one hasn't loved a version of it, but she didn't sue me over it or make me take it down. They've all been pretty cool.
- Congratulations
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a great honor to be awarded a Nobel Prize. This is a wonderful experience for my wife Betty and me. We received congratulations by email, phone and post, many from old friends we had not seen for some time.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home schooling me. She spoke to some friends, received some instructions from the provincial school board, and found some interesting books that perhaps I might find useful.
- Colleagues
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- Nov 07, 2020
You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
August depresses me a little. I don't even feel like eating. And when I don't eat, that's a sure sign of stagnation.
- Tired
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to get my own show because 'Today' will eventually get tired of me, or the audience will get tired of me.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this - nor do I think it's an attitude that only prevails among people whose work is obviously 'creative'.
- Fictive
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- Nov 07, 2020
For myself, I haven't been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the conventions - as I've grown older, and realised that there aren't that many books left for me to write, so I've become determined that they should be the fictive equivalent of ripping the damn corset off altogether and chucking it on the fire.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
From time to time, as if heaven-sent to annoy, someone will ask me if I'm self-disciplined when it comes to my work. I usually look witheringly at them and snarl, 'What do you think?' I mean, how do you imagine anyone writes a quarter of a million words a year for publication?
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020