- I Am
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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
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't think I had a voice at all, and I still think of myself as an interpreter of songs more than a singer. I thought it was too deep; people thought I was a man. I had a very strong Jamaican accent, too; the accent really messed me up for auditions.
- Angry
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people think I'm angry, I don't want to burst anybody's bubble. I like sometimes for people to be afraid of me. But it's not really anger; it's discipline.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.
- Fierce
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be like Sasha Fierce. Be like Miley Cyrus. Be like Rihanna. Be like Lady Gaga. Be like Rita Ora and Sia. Be like Madonna. I cannot be like them, except to the extent that they are already being like me.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
More having to do whatever anybody said you had to do. I couldn't really do anything on my own. But as I got older and then came to America and then Grace became my name, it somehow freed me. All of a sudden, I can be this other person.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
They used to call me Firefly when I was a little girl, and I always tried to figure out why I was being called a firefly. I was really black, black, black from the sun. After being in Jamaica for 13 years, my eyes were really beady and white, and my skin was really black. I must have really looked like a fly. My eyes looked like lights, like stars.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was constantly falling in love, and it never occurred to me that this was wrong or bad.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The women here in Monaco don't like me, and so I have to watch everything I say and everything I do because they're so critical.
- Nov 07, 2020
Ingrid Bergman made an enormous impression on me. I couldn't imagine where that kind of acting talent came from.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I meet children at book signings, they'll bring me photos of when I first met them many years ago when they were reading my picture books, and now they're telling me how much they enjoy my novels.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the one thing I probably don't like about politics - the focus on the individual. To me, it's more important to get it done, whether I get the credit for it or not.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.
- Simple
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- Nov 07, 2020