- 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
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Investment banks started recruiting at Harvard back in the day, and they'd fly me down to New York City and I was so poor so I would take advantage of the free flight, the per diem, the hotel. And then I would go audition for stuff.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be way too hard for me.
- Nov 07, 2020
A valid scientific theory is predictive, verifiable, and replicable. To me, that's beautiful.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.
- Road
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- Nov 07, 2020
The road, lyric-wise, is a trap, and a bore. Maybe it's interesting to me, but I don't think it's a connecting thing with other humans. What is there to write about? Truck stops, hotels, clubs?
- Fishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
When there's not ten feet of snow on the ground, I ride my bike down the streets of New York, and I literally hear two things out of car windows as cabs pass by me: They either yell, 'Hey, dummy,' or 'Hey, Mayhem.'
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've done a few jobs out there for the money, and I find those jobs have come back to haunt me.
- Hardest Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
That was the hardest thing for me. When it was published that I was going to play Tommen, all the fans of the books were like, 'Oh, he's turning 16' - that was the hardest thing: to play younger and show that.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020