Me Quotes
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If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.
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I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I was the last person in the circle, and when it got to me I played 'Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits' - in front of all the parents. Blew the crowd away at five years old.
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During 'Hawthorne', I was constantly trying not to be too outrageous and keep it serious. This has been so refreshing for me because it's such a good outlet for the inner me to just be. That's the whole point of 'Glee' anyways – to just be who you are and that's enough. I really feel that way on set.
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As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, 'Yo, you should rap,' and I was like, 'No.' You know, the label was tough for me. I'm a poet. I was proud of that distinction between the two, not wanting to be the other.
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I dream in numbers, and I like to look up the meaning of numbers, and numbers stick out to me.
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I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.
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People would say, 'Can I hug you?' And I would say, 'Yes, you can hug me! We're fellow New Yorkers!'
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You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.
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Quilliam will remain a priority for me because its values shape my beliefs and outlook.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.
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I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.
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My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.
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Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an exception for me when I was 14 because she didn't want me to be self-conscious about my height - or to slouch.
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When you talking boxing, you talking me.
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If my parents ever had to ground me, they didn't really know what that would mean, because I was inside most of the time anyway.
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I've heard my work called 'bold' and 'graffiti-like,' but for me it is always instinctual. I start with a shape or a colour and go from there.
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I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.
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For me, my 'X' replaced the white slave master name of 'Little' which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed on my parental forebears.
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When something is troubling me, people know about it.
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I'd be resentful if shareholders who don't know the business tried to tell me what to do.
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I think in a lot of situations I had got songs stolen from me, or treated badly.
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My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.
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It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.
