- Cats
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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
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work, and I feel that that's so much of what's out there.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than anyone else. There are always reasons for me to do whatever I do.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?
- Flew
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in Congress for six months, and they put me on blood pressure medication. I flew helicopters in combat and I was fine, and I survived 13 months in recovery in the hospital... I got to Congress, and six months later I'm on blood pressure medication. Fourteen months later, they doubled the dosage!
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
- Nov 07, 2020
I said three things when I woke up in Walter Reed. 'I love you.' 'Put me to work,' and 'You stink! Go shower!'
- Dragged
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- Nov 07, 2020
As Assistant Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, a constant concern for me is having our veterans dragged into partisan politics.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I recovered at Walter Reed, I worried about the soldiers who pulled me out of my helicopter that Friday afternoon. Would they make it back okay? And what about all the other soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen who were also putting their lives on the line every day?
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
- Nov 07, 2020
They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
- Lady
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- Nov 07, 2020