- Live
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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
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a dream of music and art and the big city in which I would get lost, where no one would know me and I wouldn't know anyone, where I would work at some ordinary job, and if one day I got up in the morning and decided I wasn't going to go to work anymore, no one would ask questions.
- Islam
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- Nov 07, 2020
This Islam business kidnapped me.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was around 11, my dad took me to see Santana live, and then I got 'Sacred Fire,' and everything changed for me.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people see me, and they can't get past my looks or the fact that a girl can be serious about playing the guitar.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eric Clapton was such a great player. He sounds like he's Freddie King or someone like that. He plays the roots of blues and Delta blues. He really affected me with the way that he plays, because he never really plays that many notes.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I want to hear something fun to cook or bake to; other times, I need specific songs to to lift me up.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked with James Orange and Hosea Williams as a teenager, and he's portrayed in the movie by Wendell Pierce. So, for me to be able to come in, 20 years after working with them as a teenager, and to portray Reverend James Orange in 'Selma' is mind-blowing.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020