Me Quotes
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
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I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.
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The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
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For me, family has always come first.
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You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.
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Whenever I tell people I'm from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on one hand the times I went there as a kid.
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I challenge anyone to tell me there isn't evil in this world.
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I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
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Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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Kelly Clarkson definitely reminds me of Motown. She's pop, but she's also very, very soulful.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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I think a lot of people don't actually know me. They think, 'She's like this,' or, 'She's like that.' They say I have no emotions - I do, but you couldn't see them then. I had to keep them inside.
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When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.
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A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.
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For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.
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I get carded for soda, you know, when I go to the supermarket. I mean, they card me for everything. You know, I can't even get through a hand of black jack without getting carded, like, five times.
