{"quotes":[{"text":"I come from a family of teasers myself. My grandfather was from Liverpool, and he had a dry sense of humor, and he would tease us terribly. My brother Beau was so skilled in his teasing that he could get a rise out of me by simply pointing at me.","author":"Jeff Bridges","tags":["family","myself","brother "],"id":56,"author_id":"Jeff+Bridges"},{"text":"Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.","author":"Philippa Gregory","tags":["myself","i am","people "],"id":841,"author_id":"Philippa+Gregory"},{"text":"I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.","author":"Zadie Smith","tags":["myself","great","competition "],"id":1711,"author_id":"Zadie+Smith"},{"text":"I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.","author":"Jonathan Galassi","tags":["myself","explain","always "],"id":1770,"author_id":"Jonathan+Galassi"},{"text":"I wouldn't call myself a shut-in. I have the ability to leave my home; I just choose not to. But because I'm such a homebody, it's important to be surrounded by things I love.","author":"Amy Sedaris","tags":["love","myself","important "],"id":2477,"author_id":"Amy+Sedaris"},{"text":"I always envisioned myself having a traditional and elegant wedding.","author":"Ivanka Trump","tags":["myself","always","traditional "],"id":2486,"author_id":"Ivanka+Trump"},{"text":"The world that I am coming from, hip-hop, is so regurgitated and repetitive that some people are used to that and they don't want change, they don't like change. And I get that, that's cool. Luckily for me, I'm confident in myself as an artist where I can do what I want, and as long as I'm cool with it, I'm cool with it.","author":"Kid Cudi","tags":["change","myself","i am "],"id":2493,"author_id":"Kid+Cudi"},{"text":"I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible.","author":"Claire Danes","tags":["best","myself","forgive "],"id":2614,"author_id":"Claire+Danes"},{"text":"I totally commit and completely give myself to a relationship. Be warned, though - I don't like being taken for granted, so I can be pretty high-maintenance sometimes!","author":"Priyanka Chopra","tags":["myself","i can","sometimes "],"id":2625,"author_id":"Priyanka+Chopra"},{"text":"I'm thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing that I am most proud of throughout my career is that, not only myself, but my family and the people around me have just been regular people, which we are.","author":"Brett Favre","tags":["family","myself","job "],"id":2702,"author_id":"Brett+Favre"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":1405,"pages":141,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}