Personal Quotes
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I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.
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I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
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I have never had personal debt and never will.
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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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On a very deeply personal level, I was anxious about it.
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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Random things are luxurious to people. It's personal.
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Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.
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I thank my personal staff for their restless sacrifice for my work.
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I have no personal knowledge of, or experience with, paramilitary hate groups, or heart transplantation, or escapees from maximum security prisons, or what it's like to be profoundly deaf. But I've written about all these topics, and the books became bestsellers. I figure that if something interests me, there's a reasonably good chance that it's going to interest the reader, too. As I approach my keyboard each day, I remind myself to have a good time - as good a time as one can have doing the hardest work there is.
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I believe in working with songs that have personal value for me.
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I think my blog is fairly circumspect and elliptical. I've written personal essays, but they are short and to the point: in and out, and that's that.
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I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.
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Some things are just really difficult to do. That's what I find hard. I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.
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needed to offer a personal, passionate and sincere renunciation of racism and segregation in all its forms, and he did that.
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I think the work is always personal. This album differs. It seems to be a lot more positive. It seems to have a certain amount of optimism about it.
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We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.
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There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.
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If someone looks genuinely interested and asks me a deeply personal question, I'll give the answer. I'm too open.
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I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.
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It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.
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Leaving Interscope was not a personal thing. These record companies are a certain kind of machine, and we weren't able to function in it.
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Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.
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Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.
