Me Quotes
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People think I'm going to be this really dark human when they meet me.
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Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.
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Authenticity, to me, is something that you feel, and if it doesn't feel authentic, you pick up on it right away.
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The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life.
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For me, music is in the choice of what not to play as much as in what you've chosen to play.
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When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice.
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I was under 18, and to leave Kenya to come to the United States, to get a passport, you had to be 18. So I lied and said I was 19 to get the passport, because otherwise, I had to have permission from my parents, and my parents would never have let me come.
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It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.
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You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire.
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Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.
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What I'll take credit for is finding visionary people in the company, or bringing them in, and then empowering them to help me.
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My aunts still try to fatten me up.
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Penmanship means a lot to me. I don't have cursive penmanship, though. I've created my own penmanship. It's very clear. Everyone can read it. I write things down all day long.
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I've never really had the opportunity to play something that's a complete departure from me yet.
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I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.
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I know how long it takes me to draw a page, how long it takes me to complete a project, how long I can work before my hand gives out, that sort of thing.
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Takers are self-serving in their interactions. It's all about what can you do for me.
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I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.
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I don't think I've ever tried to make something happen that I've absolutely had to force. You know how they say: if you can't avoid it, enjoy it. For me, it's the other way around: if I can't enjoy it, I avoid it.
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I think the Creator renews me.
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My mother read me biblical stories at night.
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So many designers only sketch and leave pattern-making to others. Pattern-making is important so you know the structure. Then if someone tells me, 'I can't make a pattern from that sketch,' I can tell them, 'I will make it' and then they are quiet. If I can't make it, I don't design it.
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I'm not interested in a film about deceit anymore. I think I was always invested in deceit on some level. But it no longer compels me the way it did for so many years.
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You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.
