- Displacement
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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
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Strauss allowed me to be a writer. Without it, 'The Emperor's Children' would not exist. When I received the award, I was teaching, had one baby, and was pregnant with another. There was no time for writing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the watershed was Hurricane Katrina. If that didn't get people out on the streets, then what will?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The feeling I had several times in youth, when lying in a field staring up at the night sky, that I might fall into the infinite void - for people like me, this idea mostly provokes anxiety.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked the idea of being from 'somewhere else.' I do think that's inherited. My father never had a fixed sense of where home was, and for my sister and me, it is much easier not to belong than to belong.
- Furniture
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be weighed down by things - books, furniture - seems somehow terrible to me.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I hear a story or a fact about somebody I don't know and have never met, it's like getting a hollow vessel that you can fill up with whatever you want. That's more tempting to me than to try to replicate what I actually know.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama was the first president whose biography makes sense to me. He can walk into a room anywhere and find common ground with any person.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the ages between 9 and 12 were great because it was before you wore any masks, and you had some autonomy in the world. You had some freedom, and you felt you had unlimited ambition. It's when you thought, 'I'm going to write plays. I'm going to be president. I'm going to do this; I'm going to do that.' And then it all falls apart.
- Land
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, it was a formative experience reading Eliot when I was younger. 'The Waste Land,' in particular.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I hear a lot is that people feel less stressed out after they watch 'Gourmet Makes.' There's a transference of their stress onto me.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
My beauty routine has changed a lot since I turned 30. But also, being on camera more has made me dial in on my skincare and makeup routine. I have acne-prone skin, and washing my face with cleanser in the morning, using witch hazel to tone, and washing twice at night to take off all of my makeup has really made a difference.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The last time I ordered soup in a restaurant was - well, let me see - possibly never. That's because in my mind, soup is something to be made and eaten at home, ideally with a cuddly animal at your feet in front of a blazing fireplace while the wind whips outside.
- Egg
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- Nov 07, 2020