- Mind
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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
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have any Indigenous friends until I was in my 30s, and I'll always remember and be inspired by the remarkable friendship I had with Connie Bush, an outstanding Indigenous leader from Groot Eylandt on who was on the National Women's Advisory Council with me.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They'd never done it for anyone else. They honoured me with a ceremonial stick that signifies the story of the land.
- Bicycle
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- Nov 07, 2020
I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.
- Not Interested
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- Nov 07, 2020
Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.
- Big Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.
- Cinema
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020