Me Quotes
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They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
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All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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People always ask me if I'm nervous about the intense sci-fi fans. To me that doesn't seem weird or scary. I get really intense about my favorite sci-fi shows, my favorite shows in general.
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Everything that ever happened to me fell in my lap.
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I'd always avoided stuff like 'Where are they now?' or 'Whatever happened to?' Just 'No thanks, thanks for calling.' You tell me, have you ever seen a 'Whatever happened to' where they seemed anything but pathetic?
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Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.
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I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.
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Army life don't agree with me.
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Father or stepfather – those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.
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A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
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A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.
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I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level.
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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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I guess there was a little bit of a slight rebellion, maybe a little bit of a renegade desire that made me realize at some point in my adolescence that I really liked pictures that told stories of things - genre paintings, historical paintings - the sort of derivatives we get in contemporary society.
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I think often that God is guiding me.
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My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.
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I told myself a while back, 'Love what you do, but don't fall in love with what you do.' That way you won't be brokenhearted if ever it gets canceled five episodes in - which has happened to me.
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But 'Cuban Linx' was a project that really needed to come, and I really wanted to get it off my chest because I know that the fans were really skeptical about it, like 'is this really gonna be what it's supposed to be?' So once everybody caught it for what it was and everybody was happy, that's mission accomplished for me.
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Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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Acting to me is real life - I don't act.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
