- Dishonor
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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
- Pretending
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I'd forgotten. Everything, absolutely everything.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.
- Curl
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- Nov 07, 2020
Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the class clown in high school, but I always took it too far, so nobody liked me. I was annoying. Like, I would get a laugh and then keep going and keep going.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a director, nobody told me I'd be talking to people all day. I'm naturally reclusive - I feel myself peek out at a certain point and go, 'All the extrovert in me is done! I'm on reserve!'
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in fifth grade - so, about 11 - my folks moved us to Denmark. And so not only did I have all new friends and all new surroundings, I didn't even understand what they were talking about, which was very difficult and kind of started me, I think, on my path to animation.
- Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think of 'Monsters, Inc.' as existing in the same space as Carl Frederickson from 'Up,' or whatever, you know? They seem like completely different universes to me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020