- My Life
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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
- Library
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me, good living means understanding how food connects us to the earth.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved being at the 'Times,' and they were incredibly good to me. I think it's a wonderful paper, and I was really well edited.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
What was so extraordinary to me about going through this box of my mother's letters and diaries was meeting my mother not as my mother, but as a real person. And what breaks my heart is that I had no idea how self-aware she was and how protective of me she was.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody would comment on what clothes male conductors wear. Or if they kind of put on some weight or something like that, and maybe their jacket is a little bit too tight. But if that happens to me as a female, then that's immediately pointed out.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that for all of us, there was this one moment in our early life when we started being obsessed about music, somehow feeling how 'big' it is and is what it can give us. For me, this was when I got to be as a 9-year-old on stage, performing in Verdi's Otello in the children's choir.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really enjoy writing about female friendship. It's an endlessly interesting dynamic for me.
- Return
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some writers you return to again and again, and for me, Nancy Mitford is one of them.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I allowed life to give me presents. And everything just sort of happened the way it was supposed to happen. I did not pursue anything. It more or less pursued me.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me... San Francisco is an ideal city, intellectually stimulating and naturally beautiful. The oceans and forests are close enough to refresh the spirit; the architecture is always exciting.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, anywhere I would go in Germany, I would see my father's posters. Everyone knew about him. And he had many friends who were artists who were also quite famous. So, for me, it seemed very natural to be an artist and be known.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always say yes to everything because I always feel that whatever comes my way, life meant for me.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020