- Never
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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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- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tried to make a point of doing things outside the box, of not having basketball consume me.
- Excellence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence on the court.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'Star Trek' future, to me, is where we are headed. Everything is automated, and we are free to pursue our dreams. We are free to pursue lives that aren't about working and toiling away in dangerous jobs. For example, how many of us would love to be poets, or how many of us would love to be artists?
- Bored
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to use all these programs that cut off the internet, force me to be bored, because being bored is an essential part of writing, and the internet has made it very hard to be bored.
- Computers
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that changed everything for me was the Firefox browser. I was pretty bad when it came to computers - I didn't know how powerful the internet could be until I discovered tabbed browsing.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alan Turing is so important to me and to the world, and his story is so important to be told, so it was a big thing to take up, and I was a little petrified. Like, who am I to write the Alan Turing story? He's one of the great geniuses of the 20th century - who was horribly persecuted for being gay - and I'm a kid from Chicago.
- Digital World
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- Nov 07, 2020
This digital world is completely fascinating to me.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are always new things to experience, internalize then write about. This process is ongoing with me. It never stops. The opportunity to reach new audiences with all of the music that we have made is thrilling.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, every year has been fantastic for me, I'm still here, I'm still alive and it's been fantastic.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020