- 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
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was six and already able to read and write Polish, my uncle the curate taught me Latin. Since he had no suitable textbook, he simply used the breviary.
- Cow
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got older, it got harder because when kids get older, they get meaner, so I went through a lot of bullying and people calling me, like, 'zebra' or 'cow,' so it was really hard growing up.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really talk about 'ANTM,' although I'm very grateful for it, as it was the platform that allowed me to catapult to where I should have been.
- Skin
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember sitting by my window, wishing upon the stars that my skin condition would go away. I wondered, 'Why me?'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have a problem with myself or my skin. I had a problem with the way people treated me because of my skin. They tried to define me.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized later how much my acting experience influenced my writing and how it helped me to write for other actors.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my life, it's always been about who I'm going to collaborate with. Less important to me is what the subject is.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm certainly a real homebody. But the truth is that I understand that desire to, in a way, go join the circus. That's what got me out of Long Island and into show business. I was like, 'I'm just going to have an adventure. I want to be a person that isn't surrounded by their mail and their cat.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, being a writer, you want to communicate with people, but if your goal is that every person is going to love what you do, then you're always going to be disappointed.
- Dawned
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- Nov 07, 2020
It dawned on me then that you either had to survive apartheid, or you had to perish with it. And I decided to survive.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn't any pain I haven't known.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of some of my friends who have passed to the spirit world but are who here with me when I go to events and when I walk in my own community. My sisters, Ingred, my sister Marsha, and my sister Nielock. All cofounders of the Indigenous Women's Network with me. All long time women activists in the native community.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You try to get out there and live. I've always had good friends who've been very supportive and help make me feel good and grounded because I've never felt attached to the film industry.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what's been printed about me.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020