- People
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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
- Brushes
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- Nov 07, 2020
She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People stayed with me and worked extra hard for me because I could see the potential in them - I'm not so sure they could see the potential in me.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
The scene that has raised the most objections in 'The Interview' is at the very end, when Kim's head dissolves into flames. To me, it feels gratuitous.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these things. That's why it's almost like a complex in me that I want to explode myself in my films.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, it's better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can travel with music. I close my eyes, and I can travel all over the world with music. And one after another, stories come to me, and I just record them.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020