- Control
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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
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more you create, the more ambitious you become with your projects. Short films were a direct result of over 200 web series sketches and vlogs. After you create enough 2-minute videos, you start to wonder what else there is. Deadlines and discipline and quantity with a focus on quality have always been what keeps me going.
- Beautiful Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shetland has always been a place of sanctuary for me. I visited when I dropped out of university, and I just loved it from the minute I got there. It's a bleak but very beautiful place.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
The organization I founded in 1993, Camfed (the Campaign for Female Education), was in large part inspired by the generosity shown to me by a community in a village in Zimbabwe. During my visit to Mola to research girls' exclusion from education, the people of Mola fed me, shaded me, walked and talked with me for hours each day.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The prevailing view was that girls were outside of school because of the resistance of families to their education. But when I visited a local village, what everyone told me - the chiefs, the parents, the children - was that girls weren't in school because it was the boys that had a better chance of getting paid work in the future.
- Demand
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- Nov 07, 2020
The really amazing part, to me, was when Florida made it into the Final Four, the Democrats didn't demand a recount.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't get the gene that makes me care about what other people think. I'm much like Trump that way. I don't really care. They're just words.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have huge fans. Gays love me.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
My faith and reason tell me that God created the world, and I'm not particularly interested in the details. I'll find out when I meet my Maker.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberals decided it's much better not to play outraged with me anymore. I sell lots of books that way.
- Irritating
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most irritating movie character for me was that cradle-to-grave commie, Mary Poppins.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to do stories that make a difference - stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to hear - and usually what drives me is to do stories about people who have no voice, people who have no political power, people who are overlooked by society.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know NBC pays my salary but I have never doubted who I work for. I think about the people who watch. They're the ones who matter to me.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
People close to me called me 'Curry in a Hurry.' I was moving through life at 100 miles an hour trying to further my career and be a great mom and make everyone happy.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ann Demeulemeester is an adult brand now, with its own identity and legacy that is able to continue growing without me.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to find my own language in jewelry. That was important to me; it really had to be what I would love to have myself.
- Jewelry
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- Nov 07, 2020