Jimi Hendrix Quotes

I found myself in too much of a box situation.

Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience

• Myself
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• I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.

  

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• I don't regret what I did in the Sixties. I was young and took myself terribly seriously. In the Seventies, I spent too much time in inner-party factional disputes.

  

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• In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.

  

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• If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.

  

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• Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.

  

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• I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.

  

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• I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.

  

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• I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.

  

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• I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.

  

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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.

  

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• I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.

  

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• When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.

  

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• And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.

  

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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.

  

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• If I find myself afraid or scared, that means I'm doing the wrong thing.

  

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• Let's just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed.

  

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• When I was younger, I didn't want to come to WWE because I didn't fit into the mold. I couldn't identify myself with the term 'diva.' The divas brand was meant to put a spotlight on the women, but the term, to me, felt more glamorous than me.

  

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• I certainly wasn't a fan of Thatcher's politics. People liked to label us as children of Thatcher. What nonsense. The real children of Thatcher came in the 1990s, and had no interest in politics. The Oasis, Britpop scene.

  

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• Indians felt despondent about Indian governance. Changing that atmosphere of gloom was a very challenging task, and I faced many difficulties in rectifying the situation and bringing back confidence and hope.

  

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• I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

  

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• I'm pretty easy going, I think.

  

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• I found myself in too much of a box situation.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Myself
  • Box situation