Kay Hooper Quotes
I had to learn to value myself before I could expect to be valued by others
Kay Hooper
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It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.
Jack Falahee
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I'm not on fire for the Lord, so I tried to make myself generate this fire for the Lord.
Maggie Rowe
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
Hannah Arendt
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Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.
K. Flay
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When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept whatever is offered you, or to be active and to learn about your disease, and understand your options, and be an active partner with your doctor. That's the course I took with all three of my cancers.
Hamilton Jordan
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler
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I haven't always been confident. I actually suffered with low self-esteem growing up. Eventually, I got to a point where I was just like, 'OK, this is taking too much energy.' After that, I started accepting myself for who I was, and I was like, whoever is not going to accept it, they weren't really meant to be in my life in that way.
La'Porsha Renae
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I have laughter dates with myself, where I find comics on YouTube and watch them. Louis C.K. was my first laughter date a couple years ago. I'll also watch those videos of people doing idiotic things. That cracks me up.
Inga Muscio
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Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
E. V. Lucas
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I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.
Gavin Hood
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I'm always trying to learn and grow, so my diet has, over the years, evolved.
J. J. Watt
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When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
Nancy Friday
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I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.
Samuel Barber
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Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.
Kate Morton
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Don't expect anyone to give you anything. If you really believe in something, then fight for it.
Damon Dash
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There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.
Natalie Goldberg
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I was a very nerdy child. I never fit in, so I became laboriously studious.
Iman
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I had to learn to value myself before I could expect to be valued by others
Kay Hooper
