Me Quotes
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I did not expect to encounter what has beset me since my elevation to the presidency. God knows, I have endeavored to fulfill what I considered to be an honest duty, but I have been mistaken; my motives have been misconstrued and my feelings grossly betrayed.
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.
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I don't want to think that anything is off limits for me to write about, but I also don't want to intrude on anybody's life, which is why there's very little specificity or names in the songs I write.
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If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you.
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Wherever I go, people recognize me, call my name, cheer me.
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I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'
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Anytime someone tells me that I can't do something, I want to do it more.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.
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The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.
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People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
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Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it.
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I grew up in L.A., and I don't think I've seen L.A. onscreen in a way that felt real to me. There are definitely movies, but they are few and far between.
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My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.
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Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.
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That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.
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My mother keeps me abreast of all the hometown things.
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I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.
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My husband may have been in the military, but no one tells me which leader to follow.
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You want me to tell me the truth or do you want me to stroke you?
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I don't vote for the guy I trust. I vote for the guy who trusts me the most.
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I can be quite surprised by what makes me cry, but it's usually spiritual things.
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I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.
