- Doing The Right Thing
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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
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
So we should all, me included, stop fighting each other and arguing about our differences on certain policies.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Frank Morley, who had worked in London at Faber and Faber, was the new head of Harcourt Brace, and he hired me to start in 1940. The early years at Harcourt were wonderful. Almost my first assignment was Virginia Woolf's novel 'Between the Acts.'
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do feel a responsibility because most people like me that are my age or younger, they don't quite make it over to the jazz side. They flirt with it, but they don't quite marry it.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a young artist, and I would go look at other artists' career retrospectives, and I was often disappointed with the lack of story line... What was missing to me was the story of where the artist came from and how they got to where they were.
- Nov 07, 2020
Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York City Ballet. My life, to a great extent, had been spent at and with the New York City Ballet, and I decided to try it. It was very scary, writing about something I loved so much and had such strong opinions about.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people say to me, particularly about my dance writing, 'It sounds just like you.' But it sounds just like me after I've made it sound like me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me.
- Sick
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like being on this stage because it keeps me thinking.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.
- Nov 07, 2020