- Love
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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
- Eat Breakfast
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant to me: Does a property gain value just because Alfred Hitchcock used to eat breakfast there?
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
My son, who's on the spectrum is a very rigid thinker. He needs clear-cut definitions of right and wrong. Anything hazy or gray confuses him. For instance, if I try to get him to see that a friend behaved badly, he'll often get upset with me because a friend is a 'good guy' by definition, in his book.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the people I have written about remain with me - perhaps they are my closest friends.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't just expect people to know what to say. I have to make them see me as more than my illness.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's OK to feel pain and experience it. I'm not trying to fix myself. My suffering has given me so much.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm grateful for the doctors that'll be scooping out these lungs and giving me some more life to work with. I'm grateful for the chance to keep being a person.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was only 13 years old when I was forced to face the fragility of my own life. A routine surgery landed me in a medically induced coma for two weeks with a mere 1% chance of surviving. But survive I did.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember the first album I really completely geeked out over was The Shins' 'Wincing The Night Away.' That album was everything to me.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want everyone who's listening to know who I am and not just see me as this singer. I want them to feel connected to my story.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making music has always made me happy. When I go through a situation, the best way for me to get over it is to bundle up all of my emotions about it, put it in a little shell, create something, and then let it go.
- Nov 07, 2020
My teacher wanted me to do 'Hot Cross Buns,' but all I wanted to learn was 'Island in the Sun' by Weezer.
- Homework
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- Nov 07, 2020
It keeps me from getting too overwhelmed about the industry when I can just do my math homework.
- Fake
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it's something that reaches out and grabs me, I want to do it. I have a lot of trouble doing things that don't grab me. So, I'm not a very good actor in that way. I can't fake it.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020