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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
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think the reason I've been successful at this point is staying focused on what was in front of me.
- Driveway
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been much of a trash-talker, and it probably goes back to playing driveway basketball when I was 12. It's never worked out for me. I've never flexed that muscle! It's not my style.
- Lifestyle
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to be prudent with everything and fortunately I have enough to support me in a nice middle-class lifestyle, while I try to do other things.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a Democrat, it's easy for me to talk about immigration. For my Republican friends, they could get criticized from the Right in their party.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, being a Democrat means we can't let 'We the People' turn into 'We the Few.'
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife has a good sense of humor, and instead of calling me psychic with my novels, she simply refers to me as being 'psycho.' That's because multiple things in my books have come true.
- Islam
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been fascinated with Islam since college - particularly how it could inspire such fervor in our modern age and move a significant number of its followers to horrific acts of violence. That invisible hand moved me to study more and more about Islam.
- Biggest Obstacle
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first novel, 'The Lions of Lucerne,' just poured out of me. It was an amazing feeling of accomplishment. My biggest fear and therefore my biggest obstacle to becoming an author had been, 'What if I spend all that time and the book is no good?'
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up, the brands that were most powerful were people brands, like Michael Jackson or Madonna. They stood for something that, perhaps, wasn't wholly who they were, which then became an image that they sold. That's still a brand to me.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been told that I overshare. Sometimes I get criticized for it, but how else would I be if not all of me?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've worked hard for my life. No one gave me anything.
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- Nov 07, 2020