- Job
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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
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing has always had that tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I've never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam.
- Nov 07, 2020
Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
This gets back to the fundamental lesson of political survival that Bill Clinton taught me, which is if you make it about the American people's lives instead of your life, you're going to be okay.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all have different thresholds for sentimentality. For me, it's a hard won happy ending.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was such a lack of modern, recognizable role models for a young girl in the 1950s. I mean, 'Leave It to Beaver' didn't speak to me. That's why I latched on to music.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always friends with a lot of guys, maybe because their girlfriends were girly-girls, and they felt safe with me.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020