- Children
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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
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.
- Nov 07, 2020
Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.
- Naughty
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- Nov 07, 2020
People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that's what they've always cast me as.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone's clamoring for the fourth book in the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy, which makes me laugh. Just the part of 'a fourth book in trilogy' that makes me laugh, not the clamoring for the next book.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I began writing in the mid-1960s, I thought it was not important for readers to know whether I was male or female. Also, I was a great admirer of E.B. White, so I may have thought that it would bring me luck to submit my first manuscript as 'E.L.' But if I were starting out today, I would use my first name.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
- Enemies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
- Logical
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- Nov 07, 2020