- 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
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life's experiences, I've always had, my uncle used to call it antenna. I know what's going to happen oftentimes before it happened when it's involving me.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
And when I stopped doing that and started thinking about what feels natural and what feels right to me and started pleasing myself, then it became good.
- Craziest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh yeah people recognize me, but the craziest thing? I mean I've had the normal autographs... but I had to sign a baby's carriage once. I thought that was weird, so yeah, I guess that's the craziest thing.
- Pizza
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- Nov 07, 2020
If my goal is to become a movie star, me working at a pizza shop won't help me. I have to make the stars align.
- Determination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being part of a fraternity has given me the foundation for everything I do in my career from the loyalty to the determination; it laid the foundation for everything I've been able to enjoy. I'm heavily involved with Omega Psi Phi.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
With me, writing is 60% imagination, 30% people you know and 10% you don't know where it comes from.
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any abhorrent behavior is more interesting to me. I'm always amazed when somebody asks me, 'Why don't you write something about nice people?' Because nice people are boring, that's why.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
J. Edgar Hoover very famously denied the existence of organized crime up until the Appalachian Meeting, I think, in 1957. It was interesting to me that he clearly had to know that there was such a thing as organized crime and organized criminals as far back as the '20s.
- Attended
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of apartheid everywhere around me.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020