- Humble
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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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote 'Show Me the Way' in the morning and wrote 'Baby, I Love Your Way' in the afternoon of the same day. I've been trying to figure out what I ate for breakfast that morning ever since!
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.
- Nov 07, 2020
What intrigues me is that you get a good bunch of musicians together, and interesting things will happen.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me three albums to get the confidence and to find out what I could do that made me different from other people. And the first record, really, was a process of trying.
- Nov 07, 2020
I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.
- Product
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.
- Everybody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I've conducted my interviews with crowdsourcing entrepreneurs and experts, it's constantly hit me that your ability to do something big and bold is really a function of the size and quality of your crowd.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like animals, all animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog - or a chicken or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I won't say I'm lucky. I'm fortunate enough to find or attract very talented people. For some reason I found them, and they found me.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think 'No' is a very powerful word in our business that is very hard to use early on in your career. But I also think I was pretty arrogant when I was younger... I used that word maybe too much, but it did help me with finding roles that I did like.
- Cynical
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- Nov 07, 2020