- 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
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
A poem gives me a chance to have an encounter with a feeling, with an experience, with a wish, with an idea.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What excites me is that I'm an ambassador for poetry, which is something that I wholeheartedly believe in and that has been an anchor and a force of stability and consolation throughout my life. I think that's good news.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been one to stay in a complacent place where I just let the grass grow around me.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been an artist that really got into fluff songs. I like songs that have substance to them. I think sometimes that may hurt me commercially a little bit. But I like to cut things that have the power to speak to people on an emotional level. That's the power of country music to me.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having children has been one of the biggest things that has happened to me in my life.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Toward the end of the '90s, it got pretty rough for me - a lot of emotional unrest and problems with my relationships. That affected my career.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up very heavily involved in a United Methodist Youth organization. I grew up going to church camp for years. I ministered, and country music stole me away. It was just where my heart wound up. It's what I wanted to do.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've found, as I've gotten older, it's really difficult to write on the road. There are so many distractions, so many people in and out of the bus. It's really difficult to do. So I just keep a notebook with me, and I jot down ideas. I schedule appointments to write.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I write a play, and we read it for the first time, the great fear is that everybody is going to say, 'You're a bum and you can't write. This stinks.' and throw the script in the garbage. The great hope is that they're all going to lift me up on their shoulders and carry me to the streets, singing, 'He's a genius, he's a genius!'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just a Chicago actor who's a playwright. Even with the success of 'August,' the people in town who come to our theater know me by sight, because they've seen me onstage so much.
- Getting Started
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Killer Joe' was originally written in 1991 and first produced in '93 at the Next Theater's Lab - a 40 seat black box theater in Evanston, Illinois - back when I was getting started. I was just 25 and I had been acting for awhile, but it was my first play and the one that really got me noticed, especially by Steppenwolf.
- Talent
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have God-given talent, I think that that kind of hinders your practice habits and that's what I think it did to me.
- Good Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being all about me is not a good thing - I don't care what 1978 tried to say - because as long as you mostly think about yourself, you're not going to be a wonderful person. You're just not.
- Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020