- Ever
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- Nov 07, 2020
Person Quotes
On character, focus and what makes a person who they are.
These quotes describe personal identity in different lights: spirituality that exists outside organized religion, competitiveness aimed inward rather than at others, and the wide or narrow focus people bring to their goals. For more, see our I Am quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Realizing you're not anything special to the kids is always a great sort of reminder that you're just a regular person. A regular, embarrassing old mom.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I appeared in EPMD's 'Hardcore' song and video that was just crazy. Def Jam had these little virals back then on VHS tape. Q-Tip was another very important person to my career. He had me in A Tribe Called Quest's 'Scenario' video when I was first coming out.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't remotely ambivalent about marrying the person I was marrying, but I was 35. I was deep into my adulthood, and I identified as single.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that gets confused often is the difference between marriage and good marriage. Marriage is a theoretical concept of the institution, and 'you should be married,' is actually meaningless. Marriage is pretty meaningless without the notion of having a specific person to whom you are married.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment.
- Different Parts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.
- Principles
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a person who is inclined to define relations between individuals based on principles.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a short story, you can use someone - we're only going to be with that person for maybe 10 pages, and they can have sort of a one note personality. And in a novel, you need to have arrows pointing more than one direction for that person.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know the feeling of being with a person with whom I have nothing in common, and yet there they are, and there we are, together, sharing pieces of our lives.
- Joke
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hour-long TV is no joke. It tests you as a human being. It makes you a stronger person, but it's really crazy.
- Having
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a diligent person, and that came directly from having hardworking parents.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020