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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really say too much to my parents. If they ask me to do something I just do it and get it out of the way.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
If our Hindu culture forbids beef meat, does the same culture give you the right to abuse me and my family just because I have an opinion that you don't agree with?
- Luck
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a stroke of luck when I worked in 'Agneepath.' It was a great role, something different for me.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.
- Experiencing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Universal was absolutely marvelous about sitting down with me and listening to my input. It wasn't something where they chose a bunch of songs that were best sellers. They did a marvelous job on the packaging. It's a beautiful tribute.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I should thank Mussolini for having declared me to be of an inferior race. This led me to the joy of working, not any more, unfortunately, in university institutes but in a bedroom.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.
- Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020
Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020