- Football
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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.
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- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
At my age - 31, nearly 32 - the No. 9 role is perfect for me. But it is important to adapt to whatever the team and the coach need.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every single person I spoke with, when I said I might perhaps be moving to Modena, told me how great the food is, so much so that I had to say, 'I'm here to play football, not to open a restaurant!'
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an 18-year-old, I would have needed an agent or a family to push me in the right direction. I would have liked that.
- Makeup
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fights with my father were really quite brutal. I would not live his vision. I would not become who he wanted me to be. Everything I did was criticized. I would spend three months drawing something and show him, and he would look up from his paper and just look back down. I got no approval from him for anything I did that was creative.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
My England captaincy was not the England captaincy I wanted, that's what will live with me for a long time.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look, I've heard a lot of people talk about me, they say I'm like Marmite. They like me, or they don't like me.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no interest in anyone who wants to criticise me, or doesn't like me despite never having met me.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's tough being me.
- Front Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
I married a pretty famous girl, and when we drive through town there's usually a car following us, when I walk out of my front door in Chelsea there's six guys waiting for me.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a fire, it's a passion to get out and to create and to innovate. And that I've always enjoyed and I've always been very proud of is that the people I've done business with, the people around me have always made money.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Noises and smells, those can bring back powerful memories. I remember when I was going to school one Fourth of July, and there were a lot of fireworks going off. I knew that I was in Richmond. I knew that I was a college student. But I thought people were shooting at me.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things my service in Iraq did give me was this freedom from fear of failure or any kind of expectations that I had to take a standard path.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020