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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
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
No babies for me until I'm in my 30s! I'm focused on my career right now. I can't even take care of my dog.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let me say this: I think men are a full-time job, and I'm young and I already have one job. I'm just focused on my career.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just really tiny. People hate me, because I just sit. I'm eating, I'm eating, I'm eating and then I just... sit. And I don't gain a thing.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard being a woman in the hip-hop game, but I'm lucky to have good people around me who have had my back.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been on shows that are very comedic and happy, and you really only get to see one side of my personality. They're not shows about my life or my music, or my struggle or anything like that. They're shows where you pretty much see me laughing and smiling all the time.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say Tupac influenced me the most to start rapping, but as far as a female icon that I've looked up to since I was six or seven is definitely Gwen Stefani.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember I rapped for a friend, and my friend really encouraged me and was blown away, like 'Whoa, that was dope!' Ever since then, I kept going.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
My biggest influence is Tupac. He was a poet, and listening to Tupac is what inspired me to start rapping.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, that's always been one of the great charms of the first person: we gain access to a very personal, private kind of music.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
We arrived the way most emigrant families did. My father came first, and the rest of us - my mother, my sister and me - followed a year later.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose people might consider me a 'loose' reader, as I seem willing to read anything of quality thinking and prose.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my teaching, I try to expose my students to the widest range of aesthetic possibilities, so I'll offer them stories from Anton Chekhov to Denis Johnson, from Flannery O'Connor to A.M. Homes, and perhaps investigating all that strange variation of beauty has rubbed off on me. Or perhaps that's why I enjoy teaching literature.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unlike F. Scott Fitzgerald and Tom Wolfe, I don't like proper dress while working. I like writing in pajama-like clothing, which eases and relaxes me and allows me to connect with the decidedly improper.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my other books, things do happen, but they are kind of bookends to the real action, which for me was an exploration of consciousness. Not that I don't get into the consciousness of the people in 'The Surrendered,' but you could say there's not as much anxiety about it.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020