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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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- Celebrate
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a songwriter, there's nothing better than winning Song Of The Year. But I couldn't really celebrate, because it wasn't right. Luther wasn't standing next to me, to receive the award.
- Happiest People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.
- Connection
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually then went on to direct an after-school special where one of the characters was deaf. They hired me without even knowing I had any connection to the community.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, it's only because we haven't been able to understand it yet.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.
- Big Impact
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a group of Hispanic Americans come into my office in 1976 who worked in a Denver packing plant. They had just been fired by their employer who turned around and hired illegal aliens for a lot less money. That had a big impact on me.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I came to England at the very beginning of commercial television it was easy for me because I was only doing one or two shows a week at most. It was really a holiday.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read somewhere that when I go on stage, people realize that they're not me and they feel better. When I walk off the stage, people know who I really am. I'm not saying it's great comedy, cool comedy or better comedy - but that's what I do, and I do it first for myself.
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