- Look
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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
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually, a number of events will be going on around me to start me on a book. What I mean is, I will have read a poem or seen a picture that is lingering in my mind.
- Thinking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever I'm thinking about has got to fit into thirty-two pages, the standard picture book size. So that's something. But the structure and the form for me are almost the most important, because these will express as much as words and images will the content of the work.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Caldecott Award has allowed me to keep doing what I'm doing for some time longer, for which I am ever grateful.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do have this big weakness: I over-cooperate with people. People say it's because I'm Irish-Italian from Middlesbrough, and me dad was always like that, y'know - 'Get the job done.'
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the heads of all the music companies had known about music and about Chris Rea fans, they wouldn't have worried about 'Stony Road.' My regular fans have always known that side of me.
- Nov 07, 2020
Music is a saviour for me.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm never happy with anything I've done! If you sat me down and played everything I've ever recorded, I'd just sit there going, 'No... that could be better.'
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a funny way, the illness spurred me on. I thought to myself, 'I've got to get through this operation to make a blues album.'
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The operation left me very emotional. I cry a lot anyway. I've always been the type to feel hurt easily, but now I hit rock bottom.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember my first day at grammar school, being the only person who was me. Everybody else was like everybody else, and there I was, tanned, in a freezing cold playground in the middle of Middlesbrough, wondering what on earth I was doing there.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to put me foot down with the first record company. It was about 1975, when singers were being given names like Gary Glitter and Alvin Stardust, so they wanted to call me Benny Santini just because me dad's an Irish-Italian with an ice-cream business!
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never got the chance to put drums on 'Watersigns,' because the company was in a rush to release it - and me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that frustrated me is that some people think success is all measured by money.
- Darth
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is so gratifying for me the degree to which the Minions have been embraced. It's almost unprecedented in the CG animated world. It's amazing. That's really all a creator hopes for, that their characters grow beyond them. It's like Darth Vader and Batman. They've gotten bigger than their creators.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020