- Know
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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
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it's also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than just a bad guy or a good guy.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
As Churchill's grandson, I am in daily receipt of vile correspondence from people telling me that I am a traitor to his memory.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be dubbed by my sovereign is an absolutely wonderful honour for me and my family.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the photographer is nearby, I like to say, 'Quick, get a photo of me looking into the camera,' because I'm never looking into the camera. Christopher Nolan looks into the camera, but I think most directors don't, so whenever you see a picture of a director looking at the camera, it's fake.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020