- Comedy
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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
- Market
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had high-ticker 10 percent financing, which would probably be the market rate, I would have to dump stuff. The interest payments would be killing me.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.
- Distance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time and distance.
- Nov 07, 2020
Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about everything.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me.
- Responsibility
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's some aura about a Nobel Prize, there's a prestige, that gives me a responsibility that I didn't have before, that goes beyond my own work, as a spokesman for science.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020