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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
- Nov 07, 2020
For me, there is urgency in fiction, even though writing is, in itself, an act against the corrosiveness of time.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to me that we live in dangerous times all over the world: we have the technology to remember everything but a desire to forget the troubling and to seek the safety of numbness. Fiction can do something about that.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think there ever will be a biopic on me! I would much like some of my books to be made into films.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
To avoid depression while travelling, I always take loads of items that make me feel connected with home. I can't even explain the joy I felt when I realised I'd remembered to pack my vanilla and mango scented beard oil. The feeling of euphoria was similar to my kids being born.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know you're supposed to love yourself, but I really hate the way I look. When I look in the mirror I'm so disgusted by the chocolate blancmange abomination staring back at me, I actually apologise to my wife for my physical appearance. I've got no backside, an overhanging belly and I'm so disproportionate.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're racist and you come out and say it's because of Brexit, then great. Then I know definitely not to talk to you, rather than you give me a sideways glance in a shop. Now I know, I've seen your Facebook post.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from an Indian family of professionals, and my parents had to go through hardships themselves to send me to IIT-Mumbai.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writer/directors are, for me, the most inspiring people to work for because they are the person on set that knows the answer to all the questions. They have the most invested in the project because they've been with it from conception.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a way, I'd rather go into an interview and be disliked, and have unpleasant things written about me, than to have a wonderful, glowing article written that is in no way a reflection of who I am.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was quite a lot of lying around in fields at Stonar, a small independent girls' school in the country near Bath. It was a non-selective school and the right environment for me: academically not particularly pushy.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was mad until I was about 25. Completely out of control with my emotions. Everything that happened to me was a tragedy. I've been much happier over 25.
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- Nov 07, 2020