Me Quotes
-
One of the things government should be around for is to deal with catastrophes. It should do that well. To me, that's a government function, and we shouldn't be playing political games with it.
-
It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.
-
In general, fiction is divided into 'literary fiction' and 'commercial fiction.' Nobody can definitively say what separates one from the other, but that doesn't stop everybody from trying. Your book probably will be perceived as one or the other, and that will affect how it is read, packaged and marketed.
-
It's not about the money with me.
-
I don't feel I was 'born American,' but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II, and I craved something I could identify with. When I became a student at Harvard in the 1950s, America very quickly filled the vacuum. I felt I was American, but I think it's more revealing of America how quickly others here accepted me.
-
I remember bringing some of my other friends to our table, and everyone at our table would look at them and ask me, 'What are you doing? Why'd you bring him?' It was annoying high school stuff that still goes on now. My high school was really bad.
-
As a kid from Texas, it always amazes me when city kids don't know how to ride a bike.
-
I just have that sort of face and when I got to Hollywood in the late '70s they took one look at me and said, 'Get him a gun. You definitely should be carrying a gun,' and so a lot of it is just the way I look. I look like I'm angry and dangerous, and in fact, I'm loveable and kind.
-
My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?
-
No one wants peace more than me.
-
My fans were probably the most therapeutic thing for me.
-
I do chores around the house, but I don't get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor... I'm sweeping the floor quite a lot, and my mum always expects me to get a broom and swagger it across the floor all the time.
-
My mum wanted me to go to university.
-
So much of the physical world has been explored. But the deluge of data I get to investigate really lets me chart new territory. Genetic data from people living today forms an archaeological record of what happened to their ancestors 10,000 years ago.
-
I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful.
-
When I hosted 'Win, Lose or Draw,' it was always fascinating to me that no one knew where anything was when they had to draw a destination.
-
There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective.
-
For me, standup will always be some part of my life, and other things will move around and find their place.
-
I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I've been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me.
-
My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.
-
Most people would identify with the fact that we tend to be defined by the struggles we came through than by the successes. And certainly for me that's true.
-
All you need to do to be my friend is like me.
-
I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.
-
I always write what feels really true and honest and me.
