- Music
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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
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The piano represents home to me. It represents a place where I can heal - the sound of it, the feel of it, the way it looks.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class.
- Grabbing
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's similar between 'Daily Show' and 'RJ Berger' is that people are grabbing me - not quite the groovy intelligentsia Starbucks barista, but the Latina nurses at my gynecologist's office - and telling me they love the show.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I always do is go with the stories that put up the hair on the back of my neck or make me cry or make me laugh.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a unicorn in the world of journalism; I've stayed in the same mid-sized city, and that staying has allowed me to write two deeply-reported books.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
My very addictive personality and all sorts of strongholds are a thing of the past for me. Yet at the root of every single one of those issues was insecurity, something I had battled since childhood.
- Common Denominator
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- Nov 07, 2020
As God took me through the journey that became the Bible study 'Breaking Free', He taught me to look for a common denominator among the things that triggered my destructive habits.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of New Orleans was always a fascination to me - such a blend of light and darkness and plague and pleasure and hedonism and fear and death. It's just a very, very intriguing city. I have this strange love relationship with it.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've seen a lot of miracles, and I have experienced a lot of things with Jesus, but nothing I have ever experienced in my corporate community life with other believers can compare with just me and Him in my kitchen early in the morning before the sun comes up.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't write for the money. I write because something in me is constantly compelled.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can't play the game. I can't - my tolerance - I know I'm getting old; I'll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I'm getting old? 'Cause my tolerance level is low.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020