- Music
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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
- Figuring
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think my success or me having the opportunity to have success is from our generation. I think it's from the generations before us. I think it's the fact that people like Martin Luther King and Medgar Evers and people like that fought for us to have the freedom to do and say what we want and have the opportunity to make money.
- Nov 07, 2020
No one's taken anything from me.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
- Computers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone is being absolutely critical of me as a driver, what could they say? I am also critical of myself to try and keep things in perspective. That is very important.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.
- Cracking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th start, and I aim to mark the milestone with a cracking performance. It could even be celebrated with a victory.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020