Me Quotes
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I think it helps me. You know, I've got two more meets under my belt, and that's always a good thing.
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I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.
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For me, art is always a kind of theater.
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My mom tells me the first show we saw was 'The Secret Garden,' but I don't remember that.
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I'm a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot intimidates me.
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For me, standup will always be some part of my life, and other things will move around and find their place.
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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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Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.
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I remember, as a kid, going into other people's houses. Everything was different. The smells in the kitchen were different; the clothing was different. That bothered me. There's something very mysterious about other families and the way they function.
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I grew up loving musicals. My mom had records of original cast recordings, and one of them was 'She Loves Me.' I wore that thing out singing along to Barbara Cook when I was eight years old.
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I'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking to me about directing a movie he's in. So you just think that it's Hollywood stuff or whatever.
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I love to smoke things; there's usually something always in the pot outside. That smell of something in the smoker just reminds me of home.
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The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life.
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I don't like the idea the viewer can kind of sit there and go, 'Make me like this person.' People aren't inherently sympathetic.
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Wherever I go, people recognize me, call my name, cheer me.
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Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.
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Everyone is your friend if you say yes, but say no and watch how they react. It's been a huge life lesson for me.
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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
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For me, it's important to build good partnerships rather than score centuries. Once, you have those partnerships, you will also get centuries.
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Talking to my mental coach definitely helps. I talk to her every week. Yeah, I mean, she's been helping me a lot, too.
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When telemarketers call me now, I won't get the blow-horn. I'm more polite than the average person.
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The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in westerns, or there's a minimal amount of it.
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When you come out of the theatre and you don't even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.
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I get a lot of fan mail and stuff, and usually it's for me to sign stuff.
