Me Quotes
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For me, just being published feels like success.
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Every day I do something that freaks me out.
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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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Part of me wants nothing to do with any Hollywood. But another part of me wants to go there. I feel like I could be successful at it.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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I was a commercial roofer before this, until about age thirty. I will not work others under me and do not want to work under others.
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For me, being able to say that my first-ever photo shoot was with one of the most well-known and iconic fashion photographers in the world is unbelievable.
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I really like supernatural stories, but, to me, 'Witches of East End' is really grounded. It's not just going for the magic tricks and keeping it superficial and action-y.
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I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
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For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality.
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People who don't know me sometimes call me 'Mademoiselle.'
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I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.
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I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.
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I want to make lemonade out of the lemons that were dealt to me.
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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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After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.
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When the doctor told me I had cancer, I was scared.
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I have never been able to pay attention to anything for more than a few minutes - the stories in my head have always been so much more entertaining. Only books could pull me out of my own imagination, and then it was only to plunge me into someone else's.
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If the Rolling Stones are playing a concert across town, that's not my audience anyways. But I do find that there's a lot of people coming back around to see me again.
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The Tinted Windows shows were very fun but it's very different for me as a performer. I'm not playing music - I'm just singing and I missed that. I miss rocking out on keys, drums, guitar... whatever it is.
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My aunts still try to fatten me up.
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A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'
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I don't think there's ever been anyone like me that's lasted. And I'm going to keep on lasting.
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There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?
