- Life
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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance.
- Bitterness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is the occasion for our cleverness fills me with baffled bitterness and anger.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward.
- Frustration
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took 10 months for me to learn to tie a lace; I must have howled with rage and frustration. But one day I could tie my laces. That no one can take from you. I profoundly distrust the pedagogy of ease.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am much obliged by the favourable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can be of service in carrying into execution your plans.
- Contributing
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me it's absolutely necessary to start from the very beginning. I can't think of coming and contributing something anywhere along the line other than the very start.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was on a picture for four or five days, had an opportunity to be on a set, and the assistant cameraman kept showing me things. One day I climbed the fence, knowing they needed an assistant cameraman. A couple of days later, I was one. The first day or two, it was pretty disastrous, but I knew something about photography, and I caught on quick.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is more pleasant for me than to be on location in the country that I love, in any of our western landscapes, being out there with a camp outfit and a film company.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly.
- Damn
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- Nov 07, 2020
Damn the sword! When Virginia wanted a sword, I gave her one. Now she sends me a toy! I require bread!
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sword is very handsome. I am too old and infirm, as you see, to ever use a sword again, but I am glad that my old mother state has not entirely forgotten me.
- Examining
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
- Patriotism
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment.
- Dedicate
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020