- Feeling
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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
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel, in 2015, when we see human beings and children dying to cross the ocean, trying to find safety, something more must be done to help them because refugees are just like me and you.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bones inside clothes. That was war to me.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
My experience as a refugee had made me strong; I could survive anything, even the world of fashion.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started modeling, I realised I was very different from many of my colleagues, but I welcomed the opportunities my career in fashion offered me and the support from many inspiring individuals in the fashion industry.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, it always goes back to what my mother taught me and my sisters. That all women are beautiful, and we should embrace each other.
- Dior
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that designers like Lagerfeld, Gaultier, Galliano and Dior could believe in Alek made me believe in myself, too.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going back to South Sudan after the independence took place was deeply emotional for me because I had gone through the civil war with my family just before going to seek refuge in London.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could never understand why other kids wanted to truant - my education here gave me everything. It's the place where I really got to flourish.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.
- Resist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020