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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.
- Nov 07, 2020
You look at how many years you have left, and you start to think: 'How many more films do I have in me?'
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.
- Hide
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Twas drink made me fall in love, And love made me run into debt, And though I have struggled and struggled and strove, I cannot get out of them yet.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me a while to get back to 'The Queen of the Night.' I was angry with it as an idea because I felt like it had sort of ruined my life by taking so much attention away from 'Edinburgh.' So it essentially languished in a drawer until 2004, when I pulled it out, dusted it off, and thought, 'Oh, I actually really like this idea.'
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a young writer, I questioned the idea that I had to write fiction in a world where I could write my own ethnicity only and nothing else. 'Fach' to me was a little like that. As a biracial person, that's an inherently unstable identity.
- Nov 07, 2020
Liz Benedict, a teacher of mine at Iowa, is the person who introduced me to James Salter's work.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would stay two years in San Francisco, then move to New York in the summer of 1991, for the love of a man who lived there. When I arrived in New York, I had a job waiting for me, courtesy of a bookstore I'd worked at in San Francisco, A Different Light. They had a New York store as well, and arranged an employee transfer.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew I wanted the parties in 'The Queen of the Night' to be convincing, beautiful, and also dramatic: situations where significant things happened on a scale that was both grand and intimate. There were several texts that helped me think about how to do this, and one of the most important ones was Charlotte Bronte's novel 'Villette.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved being a soprano. It was one of my very favorite things in life, and thus far, and losing that voice was a profound emotional moment for me in my life. I never became that interested in my adult male singing voice.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some ways, in 'The Queen of the Night,' I'm writing about some of the experience that I had with 'Edinburgh' where I was entirely unable to speak about what had happened to me as a child, but I could read from the novel.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020