- Heart
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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
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let me tell you that the children from their very birth are born to evil. Satan seems to have control of them. He seems to take possession of their young minds, and they are corrupted. Why do fathers and mothers act as though a lethargy was upon them? They do not mistrust that Satan is sowing evil seed in their families.
- Together
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- Nov 07, 2020
My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. But that's the swish in the work, I think. It's really important to me that the work isn't just sitting on top of something, that the materials are woven together - that they are recognisable and from the world.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love 'E.R.' and I'm not ashamed to admit it. It makes me know I did not waste my life after all by not becoming a medical doctor.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm proud of myself, people love me and respect me, and I like me. I like who I am.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a time in my life that my mother told me that they didn't know whether they were going to send me to college or an institution, and it's rough to hear that... Childhood is tough.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was studying International Relations at Columbia when 9/11 happened, and it made me want understand the security dynamics of the world. I had been more focused on soft power issues - understanding different cultures and such - but once 9/11 happened, I felt like I didn't know anything about security problems.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually play piano and violin, but I don't have a passion for it. It didn't make me wake up in the morning wanting to do it, or go to bed thinking about it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You'll never find me in a gym.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our future, and inspiring them to be the best they can be is very important to me.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't have known 'Crank' was going to be published, let alone become a big hit. That book was very personal for me: I had to tell the story for myself.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is, to me, one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father once told me that I have a mind like a lint trap - I pull stuff out of everything, and a lot of it just clings.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.'
- Nov 07, 2020