Me Quotes
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
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I have three incredible nieces and a nephew who's going off to college. To hear them say they're proud of me left me in tears.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.
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I'm noise-sensitive. It's always better for me if things are quiet, so I can concentrate.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.
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The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.
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The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
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I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right, I go back to the last place that felt like jazz to me.
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When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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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 mom always knew I was going to be an actor because I was a ham from the very beginning, so she would push me toward it, which is really unconventional for Indian families to do.
