- Life
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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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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts. But for me, conflict was not the main principle.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is a very strenuous thing - it's like banging your head against a wall. At the end of the day, acting is better, just because nobody ever asked me if I wanted a Pellegrino in the writer's room.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Also, I realized a lot of kids are listening to me. Whether I want to be or not, they're looking up to me.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt like high school for me was like a big whirlpool of me trying to figure out what was OK for me to do.
- Try
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to be me to the utmost.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being in London has really taught me how important history is. Just having information of the past. It helps you predict the future, which is all we really have as, you know, humans.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prose is not so dependent on sound. The line of poetry, with the breaking of the line - to me, sound is the kind of doorway into poetry. And my sense of sound, or my ability to control it, lapsed or grew less.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were willing to let me follow my nose, do what I wanted to do, and they supported my interest by buying the books that I wanted for birthdays and Christmas, almost always poetry books.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to do draft after draft... It takes me a long time, but I love doing it, and I have to do it every day, or I feel slack.
- Cooking
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- Nov 07, 2020
A fellowship to Oxford acquainted me with the depths of English cooking. By the twenty-first century, London's best restaurants are as good as Paris's, but not in the 1950s.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go to Africa to find some of these creatures.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020