- 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
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I finally realized the happy medium, 'honey blonde' was the correct color and line for me.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
The values transmitted through oral history are many - courage, selflessness, the ability to endure, and to do so with humor and grace. I got those values listening to my dad's stories about the Depression and how their family survived. It gave me courage that I, too, could survive hard times.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow,' part of the 'Dear America' series, I took my childhood bravery and stubbornness and put that at the core of the Navajo girl, Sarah Nita. It helped me to identify with her survival and to write about her courageous journey and that of her people.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't sit down in front of my computer screen and think, 'Right. Today I shall begin a story set in this or that period of history.' I just get ideas from the world around me.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have ideas saved on my computer that I visit from time to time to see if one may shine and motivate me.
- Makeup
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fame put a lot of pressure on me in the Eighties and early Nineties - and I'm glad that I had the kind of makeup where I could come through it alive, keep myself in hand.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's important to me is love, especially that. What's important to me is growing and evolving. But ultimately, what's important to me is being real and being authentic. I've spent enough time in my life holding poses, playing roles.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got married, which opened me up to a whole new way of feeling about life, which in turn reflected on the way I do my art, you know.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I trained myself by doing other people's songs in clubs way back when. And so I have no pride about doing covers. I love it. And being a song interpreter, to me, is just as important as, you know, putting your own thing out there. It's all about the soul - where the soul comes from.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character. A joke.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music ignited a fiery, pent-up passion inside Elvis and inside me. It was an odd, embarrassing, funny, inspiring, and wonderful sensation.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I get a chance to perform for the troops, that makes me feel that I'm really doing something. That's what I want.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ken Russell was wonderful to me. I'd heard all these things about how he'd yell and scream at people, but I found him to be a very nice, normal person.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
People know my story - how I started like they did and that I struggled with things, like being a working mom. They ask me things they wouldn't ask anyone else.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020