Me Quotes
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We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that?
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.
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My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill.
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I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.
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You know how macho boys get when they're all together? Well, the set of 'Desperado' was like that. They were all trying to put me down, saying, 'Bring on the stuntwoman, Salma can't do that.' But I did everything.
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There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.
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Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.
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My son gave me the permission to accept my success.
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I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?
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I don't like to be me. I'm not so comfortable being me on screen because then I'd be a presenter. I'm not Jimmy Fallon.
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What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.
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A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.
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For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.
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I was going to finish my university degree after finishing 'The Tailors,' but 'Pinocchio' made me to take another semester off.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.
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I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.
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When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
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Well, love motivates me in everything I do.
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Father or stepfather – those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.
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His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen.
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Dad's funeral was standing room only; most in attendance were strangers to me. At the back, a lone Marine stood silently, then left. People told me he'd saved their life or helped them in their darkest hour.
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Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.
