Me Quotes
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I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind and really put it out there as they saw it.
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I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.
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I definitely enjoy working with people who can do their thing but also allow me to do my thing, you know? Who respect the process.
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Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.
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My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.
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I like to get a salad or fruit in me - just some good energy food - and then a plate a pasta with a breast of chicken.
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At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.
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It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.
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My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.
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In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista.
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I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.
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We never do Valentine's dinner, because everybody, they look. On Valentine's, imagine me and David going to a restaurant! Like, everybody's going to say, 'Did they talk? Did they hold hands?' Twenty years. We've been married twenty years!
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My role on television is one of helping people reexamine the assumptions that they hold. I regard Dr. King. You would never hear me get up and speak without in some way, shape or form, referencing, Dr. King.
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There will always be women who say, 'She doesn't represent me.' In retrospect, these things are gifts, because it forces me to step up and defend what I'm doing.
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But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region.
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The devil that stayed with me most vividly was the one from the cover of Iron Maiden's 'Number of the Beast' album.
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Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them.
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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
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Someone asked me the other day what it feels like to see all my 'old stuff' reappearing, at long last, in digital. And I had to smile because to me it doesn't feel like 'old stuff.'
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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
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When something is troubling me, people know about it.
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I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.
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What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me.
