- Hair
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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
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have asked me why I made the first chapter of my first novel so long, and in an invented English. The only answer I can come up with that satisfies me is, 'To keep out the scum.'
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can remember the first time I tried to drive into the garage of the world headquarters of Ford in a Camry. It was almost like they wouldn't let me in. They said, 'Why do you want to do that?' I said, 'Because we are going to make the best cars in the world, and we need to know everything about the competitor's car.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People used to name me the Brazilian Pistorius. Thank God I'm not the Brazilian Pistorius any more. I'm Alan.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London.'
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the first introduction for me to recorded music and hi-fi.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the script was written, it was sent to me with asterisks marking where he felt a song would be appropriate. Before the film was shot, the score was written. I made a demo of it, so they lived with the music as they were making the film.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.
- Containing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.
- Energies
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020