Me Quotes
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For me a day without training is like a day without eating.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.
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My mum told me once I was a Hindu.
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If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
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I went to Yugoslavia to make a movie. People saw me there and asked me to do a movie in Germany. And that led to a movie in Italy. Before I knew it, I was in Europe for most of the next 10 years.
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I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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I'm a sucker for a man who cries. It just gets to me.
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I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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Everybody's lonesome for somebody else but nobody's lonesome for me. Everybody's thinking about somebody else but nobody thinks about me. When the time rolls around for me to lay down and die. I bet I'll have to go and hire me someone to cry. Everybody's lonesome for somebody else. Nobody is lonesome for me.
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I hope I did it the way my peers did it before me. I didn't do anything but try to play hard.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the book – you know, anyone not vivid enough to have a claim on my attention.
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For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.
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Music, for me, is just about where you're at, and that's always changing.
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Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That's the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.
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The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.
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Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.
