- Fat
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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
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a sad process for me to become a mom, and a long process. I felt so embarrassed that I couldn't have a biological child.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
The media was always so focused on the money a movie makes. But I was in Times Square, and a bunch of Japanese tourists looked at me and started shouting, 'Toula!' I loved it. It's these tiny moments of connection that register with me the most and always have.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
On my daughter's first day of kindergarten, another mom said something that made me realize I had become my own Greek, suffocating mother. She said, 'Just think, in 13 years they'll leave us and go to college!' And I went, 'Gulp.'
- Gentleman
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have had the same person show up in a few cities with flowers. A lovely gentleman who gave me a picture of himself. I came home, gave it to Ian, and said, 'If I go missing, here's the guy.'
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lately, I've been in meetings regarding a new script idea I have. A studio executive asked me to change the female lead to a male, because... 'Women don't go to movies.' Really?
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not proud of this, but I had a lot of misconceptions about American foster care. To me, foster care meant that a child would be placed with you, then taken away. I didn't want to go through all of that.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Something that's seldom appreciated about me is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx wrote, except that I'm on the side of the bourgeoisie.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real point of me isn't that I'm good looking. It's that I'm clever. I've got a brain! I would rather be called a highly intelligent historian than a gorgeous pouting one.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an emotional guy, so I don't have to worry about a girl trying to get me to open up.
- Landscape
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- Nov 07, 2020
If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.
- Nov 07, 2020
For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020