Me Quotes
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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?
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Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.
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Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.
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Studying music in a conservatory would be stifling for me, although I respect people who can do it. And by no means am I an expert at notating music or music theory - that's not really my world.
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To me, Darth Vader is the epitome of evil.
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I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.
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I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.
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My mom speaks English - she moved to England in the '70s, so she's fluent in English. We use to speak in Spanish when I was a kid all the time, me and my mom. But when I went to boarding school, I kind of lost it a little bit.
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I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.
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Some people may have their doubts about me. But I feel like there's no shot too hard for me to take.
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I still get weepy when I see a father being nice to his child. It so affects me.
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I graduated from Second City Los Angeles. It helped me tremendously, not only in my roles in films but in helping shape me into a writer as well. In improv, you will fail sometimes, so it teaches you to be brave and try anything. The worst that can happen is nobody laughs.
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The dads across the soccer field looked at me as a dad just like them. And I was very grateful.
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I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me.
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When I was little, I had concerts on the subway, and old ladies came up to me like, 'You are so good!'
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I get a lot of fan mail and stuff, and usually it's for me to sign stuff.
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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
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The world stretches before me, the vast world of the big, the little, and the medium.
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For the most part, editors no longer view 'Doonesbury' as a rolling provocation, which is fine by me. It makes no sense to intentionally antagonize the very people on whose support you most depend.
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Michael Landon was the biggest influence. As a child, I watched him write, direct, star, and produce a TV show every week. He showed me what was possible.
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Whenever a relationship doesn't go on the right path, it affects me in some form, but it hasn't spoilt anything for me.
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I don't like feeling vulnerable. I think my mum and dad's divorce affected me more than I let on.
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The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.
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I could not find any way that we could really run the kind of campaign I wanted to run if we were targeting delegates and still trying to talk to people, which is what keeps me going as a human being.
