- Farmers
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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.
- Nov 07, 2020
Knowing yourself and expressing it is hip. I think knowing yourself is the real journey, for me anyway.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.
- Clockwork
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars.
- Favourable
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- Nov 07, 2020
George Lucas was casting about and had heard favourable things about my work in Clockwork Orange and asked me to come in, which of course I did even though no one knew what the film was about!
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I went to George and told him I had the opportunity to become the figurehead of a government safety campaign, and he agreed to give me the week off and reschedule shooting!
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a white, middle-class male who had a happy childhood in Ohio. The world does not need me to be a novelist.
- Nov 07, 2020
I thought 'The Hot Zone' was fascinating, mesmerizing. It's one of the things that got me interested in Ebola.
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's just about going out and getting the shot, so I have a great understanding of how to execute it, so that really helps me, and also having a good understanding of all the action that I'm shooting, it helps me in determining how I'm going to capture it.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.
- Meetings
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're talking to New Line. They've got a couple projects they're interested in me doing and I'm having meetings at MGM. There's a lot of available projects.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
About the only thing that I have - or had, because it's failing me lately - is my memory. I had a really good memory. I was always terribly protective of that fact.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I aspire to write what are called 'familiar essays.' They begin in the personal and end in the universal. It's not for me to say if I have been successful at it. But that is the hope.
- Blind
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the false moral component behind blind animal love that so frosts me. The faulty logic that believes that the capacity to adore a nonhuman creature is somehow a purer form of love.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020