- Character
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, if God blessed me with that one great hit, I'm satisfied. But I've still got a lot in me, and I'd still like to get out there and tell a lot more stories cinematically. And God willing, I'll get the chance to do that.
- Love Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My people are my people. They love me and I love them. I would not be here without them.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, in Buddhism there is a plethora of specific teachings that one can seek out and find for the individual dilemmas you may have.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I learned is that the park by the river in a recent story, 'Getting Closer,' is the same park by the river that appears for a moment near the end of 'The Eighth Voyage of Sinbad,' a story first published 23 years earlier. This echo at first irritated me, then pleased me deeply.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never write to disappear and escape. The truth is exactly the opposite. Most people strike me as escaping and disappearing in one way or another - into their jobs, their daily routines, their delusions about themselves and others.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is a way of getting at the things most people would prefer to escape. Writing takes me to the center of life. That's my invitation to my readers as well.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a story or part of a story comes to me, I turn it over in my mind a long time before starting to write. I might make notes or take long drives or who knows what. By the time I give myself permission to write, I know certain things, though not everything. I know where the story is headed, and I know certain crucial points along the way.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, a 'brand' sounds evil.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
My house was full of music. My main memories are of the record player at home: it was all Beatles and Rolling Stones, and we danced around the living room; that started me off on instruments, and I've done nothing else ever since.
- Depending
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- Nov 07, 2020
The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the music could subtly influence the entire meaning of a scene in so many ways was like a door opening to this amazing new world for me.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, anything can be music! I can get huge enjoyment and be moved totally by the purity and perfection of some Renaissance polyphony, but equally I can feel emotion in the expectant hum of a big old guitar amp just before the strings are hit.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a wood cabin on Puget Sound in Manchester, Wash. My family taught me to appreciate the arts and the outdoors, and I still yearn for the absolute silence I experienced there when I was young.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020