Me Quotes
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
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Sports of every sort had always appealed to me.
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My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.
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Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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I know what I can do so it doesn't bother me what other people think or their opinion on the situation.
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A lot of artists go in the studio and say, 'OK, whaddaya want me to do? Is it gonna be a hit? I'll do it. Is it gonna get played on the radio? I'll do it.' So they start makin' these songs, and they fall in the same tempo, same category, same this, same that, and it'll just all sound the same.
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Death always seems to be around me.
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We live in a multi-cultural society far more open to international ideas. If you'd told me 20 years ago I'd drive through Bury and see someone sitting outside a cafe drinking a latte, I'd have laughed. In fact, I wouldn't have even known what a latte was.
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Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.
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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang.
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I want to let fans know how much I appreciate them and how much I appreciate them showing interest in our music and me personally.
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After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began throwing packages of tobacco at me. I stuffed them in my pocket.
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There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.
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Bahrain is very dear to me.
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The things that make me happy most are my family and working.
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Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.
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I just want people that like my music to like me.
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When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.
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I make things of my own that aren't that glam, but I'm not known for that, which has always been a bit of a frustration for me.
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I think often that God is guiding me.
