- Music
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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.
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- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm. Kind of like a Faustian thing, I think.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don't mind being called Americana, I don't mind being called country noir, or independent country is fine, but the words alt.country make me insane.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different, and I can't do what they do, but reading them gives me hope that I'll learn something from them.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
After getting recognized in public from my picture on our pretzel bag, I can understand not wanting to be in the public eye. It has given me a public persona I had always avoided as a child. I do it because it's for a good cause.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up shopping from farm stands. Dad taught me how to smell a good cantaloupe and thump a watermelon for ripeness.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always sought out organic produce because to me it always tasted better; the quality was better - if you got it fresh.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the second female writer ever hired at 'Late Night.' When I applied for the job in 1988, I had no way of knowing how much the odds were stacked against me.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
An executive producer with an all-male writing staff once inadvertently revealed his deep, dark fear. While discussing a full-time position for me, he mused out loud, 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change everything.' Of course, what he really meant was: 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change me.'
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020