Me Quotes
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It has been hard for me in a sense because from an industry point of view – I don't care if I'm from the 'X Factor;' I embrace the fact that I'm from the 'X Factor,' but other people don't embrace that.
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Female hysteria is a subject I'm very fond of. I always try to bring it in somewhere. For me, it is the finest part of the line between comedy and tragedy.
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My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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I want to be on a show that's not sensitive to racial jokes; I want to be on one where they call me everything and I call them right back. There's blatant racism going both ways. That's what we need.
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I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
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The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.
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It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
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For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.
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People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
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America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.
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'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies – they said they didn't get me, which is fine, I suppose.
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
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I'm a sucker for a man who cries. It just gets to me.
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Then you'd have found me pinned beneath a large metal pipe.
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The last time I visited Qaddafi was in May of 2001, 15 years after Reagan attacked his rather modest residence where he took me to show me how it had been left.
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You all had something to do with keeping me employed.
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Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.
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I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don't have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.
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The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio – it sent me a bit mad.
