Manuel Puig Quotes
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
Calvin Klein -
My motivation has always been health - eating healthy and taking care of myself.
Gabrielle Reece -
A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.
Kacey Musgraves -
I'm not on fire for the Lord, so I tried to make myself generate this fire for the Lord.
Maggie Rowe -
I put pressure on myself all the time. I felt it so much with 'Sax,' but I had to just let go and enjoy it.
Fleur East -
I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.
Ornette Coleman
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It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn't want to attend a real meeting; my role didn't really require that, and I feel those meetings are sort of sacred, and they're anonymous for a reason. I tried to deal with some of my love of snacks - and I relapsed a lot.
Octavia Spencer -
An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.
Vijender Singh -
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler -
I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.
Ted Naifeh -
I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.
Zooey Deschanel -
It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
Walter Cronkite
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
Kat Dennings -
Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
Tamae Watanabe -
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
W. H. Auden -
I'd previously done 'Expelled,' and that was more on the comedy side, so I really wanted to challenge myself and see if I could actually do a drama.
Cameron Dallas -
I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically.
Gavin DeGraw -
I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that good, thank them. Thank God for them. But I don't think so.
B. B. King
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I feel like the better version of myself is on paper... I'd rather have people know me on paper.
Aaron Sorkin -
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
George Santayana -
The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
Queen Elizabeth II -
Every time a cool rock chick or actress seems to respect themselves as a strong woman, I'm like, 'Yeah!' And I love them, and they're my girls. And then they start to go downhill and people aren't paying attention anymore. So they start stripping their clothes off, because that's all they have left. I swear to everything I've ever known, I will never do that.
Amy Lee Evanescence -
I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
Manuel Puig