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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
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if I have a memory of not thinking I was a writer - it goes that far back. I went to law school because I didn't know how to earn a living otherwise. I tried to ignore the pull, but it wouldn't let me.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up on a dirt road in Maine, and pretty much everybody on that dirt road was related to me, and they were old. And so grumpy.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love arranging the words and having them fall on the ear the right way, and you know you're not quite there, and you're redoing it and redoing it, and there's a wonderful thrill to it. But it is hard. It's a job of tremendous anxiety for me.
- Nervous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
- Dumb
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an alcoholic. It took me a long time to admit that to myself. It took me a long time to admit it to my family, but I am.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm part of AA. I have a sponsor. I have great, great friends who I love and who love me.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Flying isn't great for me - or getting caught in a crowd.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had two experiences. I had a wonderful experience in rehab, and I had a terrible experience in rehab. But, to be honest, in the end, it wasn't rehab that got me sober. It was just finally surrendering and saying, 'I don't want to do this anymore. I can't do this anymore. Somebody help me.'
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 1940s, I was doing something called the Equity Library Theater in New York, when a movie company came to see the play I was in and offered me a contract. But the deal was, my nose was too big and they wanted me to have surgery. My jaw was crooked, and I'd have to have that fixed, too. And they didn't like my name; it was too common.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to give up my career. That's what kept me alive, kept me going. I couldn't stop - didn't want to stop - being all these different characters.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always felt the play came first. If it didn't touch me, I'd say forget the part.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020