Me Quotes
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I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.
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I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
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There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.
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So many people counted on me to be the party, I had to move far enough away that they wouldn't want to drive there.
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In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
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I put out a call on Twitter and Facebook and email for women to tell me their stories about their abortions. And many women said, 'I told my boyfriend I was pregnant, and that was the last I ever heard of them.'
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I've been out of my comfort zone a lot, and it makes me more vulnerable, but I have to draw the line somewhere, and don't think I would go skydiving!
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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.
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When I wrote 'The Da Vinci Code,' I told myself that this story of Jesus makes more sense to me than the story I read in the Bible.
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I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.
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To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.
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It's so funny: at 'SNL,' Bill Hader always kind of treated me like his little sister and would kind of, like, lovingly bully me.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that looked like the Michelin Man.
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People do look at it as an insult that I say I don't listen to country music, which cracks me up.
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I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.
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People review my comic books. People review every article I write - 'The Atlantic' even publishes them. A great deal of the critique of 'Between the World and Me' was from a feminist perspective. bell hooks pushed back, among others. Some of that has value. Some of it does not. I try my best to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.
