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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
God has been faithful time and again to surround me with people that sharpen me and that make me better.
- Coming
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not going to put out a Christmas CD until it's coming out of me naturally.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but in fact the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person. All you add is food and climate control, and some time, and the embryo becomes you or me.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you see me at a restaurant, blow me a kiss, wave, blow me another kiss, then walk five steps backward.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only lately, like within the last few years, have I had people actually do an impression of me to me, which weirds me out to think of what they have picked up on, without ever realizing it myself.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
The factory that my grandmother had put under the house to produce these green men to come get me.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always had problems with my voice, and the piano helped me believe the song could be bigger than my voice, and I could play with new melodies and things that I couldn't on guitar. It was easier to make the sound fuller and easier to get away with not being as good.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have three sons, and the oldest wants to play pirates all the time. It has all these associations of living some kind of very free life. It's interesting for me as a filmmaker to show a whole different side of that.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a soldier. He was a frogman in the special forces in Denmark before I was born, and always the reality of that inspired me. My mom is very left-wing, classic socialist, and she always talked about the solders as almost crazy, violent, sick people, and I want to confront that because its very judgmental, and I'm not sure it's true.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother - she's a good old classic Northern European socialist - she's totally wonderful, but she raised me up believing that rich people have stolen their money from poor people.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to write lines where characters tell me exactly how they feel; I want to see people talk about anything but their feelings, like they do in real life.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, a great company starts with a great product and ends with a great product.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
That, for me, is a very important test of a young writer's commitment because most of them are going to have to continue doing that when they've finished the program.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very happy to be a part of a very successful piece of art, as the 'Saw' films have been. One gets into this to participate. It's the coming together of a good story. So, that aspect of it has been just splendid. It really has nothing to do with me or my popularity. I'm fascinated.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020