- 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
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before doing fieldwork in Middle Egypt, I analyzed satellite imagery to determine exactly where I wanted to go. Within three weeks, I found about 70 sites. If I had approached this as a traditional foot survey, it would have taken me three and a half years.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a child growing up in Maine, one of my favorite things to do was to look for sand dollars on the seashores of Maine, because my parents told me it would bring me luck. But you know, these shells, they're hard to find. They're covered in sand. They're difficult to see.
- Inspired
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's both Indiana Jones and 'National Geographic' that inspired me to be an Egyptologist.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think insecurity does drive people. I know it's what drove me to push for the work I've got.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love acting, but don't necessarily enjoy other aspects of the business. For me, going to celebrity parties is like work.
- Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you heard me sing, you would just plug your ears and run, screaming, the other way. I promise.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If my life choices had to be predicated based on what was expected of me from a community on either side, that's going to make me feel really straitjacketed, and I don't want to feel that.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a complicated home life, and my teachers, predominantly my theater teachers and my English teachers, were very dedicated to taking care of me in a particular way. And in doing so, I think I developed a very easy rapport with people older than myself.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020