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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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- Exchanging
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.
- Bedroom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
- Constrain
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- Nov 07, 2020
It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
- Radio
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- Nov 07, 2020
The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television.
- Idiots
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- Nov 07, 2020
Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember keeping a lot of journals and diaries and trying to form a complete thought just based off of those immediate, raw feelings. If anything, I was conscious about how I just always wanted to be as honest as possible, no matter how vulnerable it would make me seem.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in New York, the whole vibe was really just not matching with me. I was kind of super depressed in New York. It just had this vibe of 'Get out,' you know? I would try to get out, and we'd look back and just see the city and feel like, 'Oh, I have to go back to prison again.'
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I completed writing 'Soul Mountain,' I more or less closed the accounts with China for myself. I was 50 years old when I left, so China is already within me.
- Loner
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a total loner. I can't even answer texts or take my phone with me when I'm working!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people in archeology find their specialties in strange and unique ways. I always wanted to do archaeology, and then the time came for me to actually be in the field, and it was excruciatingly boring. Excavation is really, really boring.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.
- Hardest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020