- 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
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's crazy that you have to tell your phone or your computer or your house or your car 'It's me!' hundreds of times a day. Wearables will solve that problem.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let me make one thing clear. I have never considered mere survival in power as any achievement, just as I have never seen coming to power as an achievement in itself.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, power was never an attraction.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
My poet's heart gives me strength to face political problems, particularly those which have a bearing on my conscience.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody can take what I love away from me. I would like to believe that love is the only energy I've ever used as a writer. I've never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There's a thread running down the Fugard line of alcoholism. Thankfully I haven't passed it on to my child, a wonderful daughter who's stone-cold sober. But I had the tendency from my father, just as he had had it from his father.
- Close Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
A very close friend of mine keeps reminding me that since about the age of 50, I've been saying, 'I'm finished. I haven't got another one in me.' But somehow you do.
- Nov 07, 2020
The act of witnessing is important to me; somebody's got to tell the truth, you know what I mean?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had one experience of writer's block in my life, and it was living hell. It was a terror for me.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making music is what drives me - not awards, not Internet fame, not even exorbitant amounts of money. My fans call themselves 'Aadeez,' and they are the most loyal lot. I make my music for them. I love them.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not inspired by anyone. I don't have any idol. I just follow the people around me and try and learn a few things.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020