- Broken
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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
- Teacher
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to win at school, and some teacher said to me, 'Why don't you take up running like your sisters?'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've worked hard to get here; I would like to thank all the people who helped me.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you just take me as a fiction writer, then you're probably going to find me fairly limited.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember being interviewed about my first novel, 'The Colour of Memory.' They kept using the expression 'your first novel,' and I said, 'No, I object to that phrase, because this is it for me.'
- Landscape
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first got a sense of that idea of nodality - but I didn't use the word back then - with 'The Missing of the Somme': that sense of a particular place in a landscape or on a map having some kind of tremendous power to draw us to itself... that made me conscious, and since then, really, it has been an abiding concern of mine.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have had many Ashfield people say to me that they might not agree with my political views or my decisions but that they supported my right to be heard.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really explored self-awareness and emotions through 'Green Lantern.' It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're all driven by something, and most of that is emotional reaction. For me, it was about recognizing my self-awareness.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like collecting comics, I like buying comics, I like looking at comics, but I also read comics on digital readers, so any way people read comics is fine with me. Digital is just helping people who might not necessarily have access to comics help them; that's great.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trouble with writing for the web is that writing is about getting people to forget they're reading. Anything that reminds them they are reading, or which annoys or distracts them, bounces them out of the world. And the web, it seems to me, is all bounce. A very, very difficult medium to write for.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel very blessed in my career to have been able to bounce back and forth between different things, television and film, comedies and some dramas, but I am, um, as long as the script inspires me and there good people, that's it. I'm in.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't look at things goin', 'Oh, is this gonna make me rich? Is this gonna make me a star? Am I gonna win awards?' If all that stuff happens, great. Who cares? I still have to wake up in the morning and go to work and be happy to do it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the one thing that athletics prepared me for that's been more beneficial than anything has been the humbling times.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020