- Camera
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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
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let me clear it once and for all: I was never offered 'Befikre.' But had I been offered, I wouldn't have done it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me 13 months just to prepare for 'M.S. Dhoni'... I started by watching every single video I could find of his, repeatedly. After three months, people who met me started saying that they could see similarities, and I knew I was on the right path.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything happening around me is very random. I am enjoying the phase, as the journey is far more enjoyable than the destination.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I am in front of the camera or on stage, I am not me.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything that is somehow related to direction and filmmaking fascinates me, like cinematography.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't have the life I have without television. I wouldn't be looking out my apartment window onto the East River; I wouldn't be able to afford to have my mother with me this summer. So television has been very good to me.
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write about art out of gratitude to painters for the joy and spiritual uplift they have given me. Painters interpret for us the visual glories of God and, in this way, bring us closer to Him.
- Color
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- Nov 07, 2020
Color has always been important to me, ever since my first deluxe box of Crayolas.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.
- Colors
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was nine, my great grandfather, a landscape painter, taught me to mix colors. With his strong hand surrounding my small one, he guided the brush until a calla lily appeared as if by magic on a page of textured watercolor paper.
- Class Consciousness
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- Nov 07, 2020
In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have always been drawn to the novels of Edith Wharton, among others, where social dynamics are crucial. Wharton's class consciousness fascinates me, and some of the tension in my books stems from that.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the first Hispanic female governor in history, little girls often come up to me in the grocery store or the mall. They look and point, and when they get the courage, they ask 'Are you Susana?' and they run up and give me a hug.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020