“Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.”

— Emma Donoghue , Room

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Irish novelist, playwright, short-story writer and historian 1969

Danny! (1983) American rapper

On feeling overlooked amongst the current crop of rising hip-hop artists (Creative Loafing interview http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/don_t_sleep_on_danny_/Content?oid=793782, 2009)
Interviews

“I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.”

Franz Kafka book Letters to Milena

Variant: I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer.
Source: Letters to Milena

“All of humanity knows me. My name is in encyclopedias, in registers and databases. Books have been written; films recorded. I’m happy, I’m satisfied.”

Vladimir Zhirinovsky (1946–2022) Russian politician and political activist

"Aging Rebel: Vladimir Zhirinovsky Is Enjoying Another Moment" in The Moscow Times https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2016/09/02/aging-rebel-vladimir-zhirinovsky-is-enjoying-another-moment-a55177 (2 September 2016)

“I’m sorry… I’m sorry that Limbaugh is one sorry excuse for a human being.”

Alan Grayson (1958) American politician

AllHeadlineNews.com http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7014328782 –March 4, 2009.
2009, Regarding Rush Limbaugh

“I’m not a gentleman, I’m a nobleman, a distinction I suspect you understand very well.”

Stephanie Laurens (1943) Australian writer

Source: Devil's Bride

“I think empathy is not learned. Maybe I’m wrong, but in my experience it’s not.”

Nanfu Wang (1985) director and filmmaker

Source: "Interview with “In the Same Breath” Director Nanfu Wang" in Film Festival Today https://filmfestivaltoday.com/interviews/interview-with-in-the-same-breath-director-nanfu-wang (23 August 2021)

“All I can say to the younger theorists is: don’t trust anyone over 45, except maybe me, and I’m not so sure about me.”

Philip Warren Anderson (1923) American physicist

Source: More and Different: Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon (2011), p. 159, quoted by N. David Mermin in [Review of More and Different: Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon by Philip W. Anderson, Physics Today, 65, 1, 44, January 2012, 10.1063/PT.3.1400, https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/PT.3.1400]

“I’m not intimidated by anything, except maybe PETA standing outside with a bucket of blood.”

Johnny Weir (1984) figure skater

Source: Johnny Weir quotes: One reason the Olympics are so sensational!, D. Scriber, 2010-02-16 http://dscriber.com/home/1186-johnny-weir-quotes-one-reason-the-olympics-are-so-sensational.html, ; Whether other skaters' practice performances would intimidate him

“I do what seems best—I live, I let live; so far I’ve done well. I don’t see why I should act like a predator, simply because I’m in a predatory society. I’m a human being, I’m myself—if I make my life something vicious, who’ll give me another if, too late, I regret what I’ve done?”

Algis Budrys (1931–2008) American writer

The Eye and the Lightning, in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magazine_of_Fantasy_%26_Science_Fiction, December 1958, p. 18
Short fiction

“I’m not interested in truths, like drawing an accurate picture of the real world. I’m interested in exploring the verities of the human condition.”

Jim Crace (1946) English novelist, short story writer and playwright

"What Is This Thing Called Bronze?" http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE0DA103AF935A25754C0A96F948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2, interview with Robin Pogrebin, The New York Times (1989-07-16)

“Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.”

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