Myself Quotes
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I don't think any poetry is written that isn't primarily written to the self, in a way... I'm always talking to myself. But I seem to want somebody else to listen to it. I need, I do want an audience. So it's a strange thing. It's a very private conversation that then, you make public, kind of, like, the starfish flipping its stomach out.
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I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.
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When I was a player, I worried only about myself. Good money and easy work.
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Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it.
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Expressing myself is what I love most; not having enough time is what I hate about it... I keep to myself, though, when I am on tour, and focus on the tour.
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I feel like at the end of the day, as entertaining as movies are, when you're part of them in a way, it's this beautiful art form and that's what it feels like for me. I'm not a painter, but I can express myself visually in a way that allows me to artistically create.
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I have to do it myself. That's what a Queen does. She saves herself.
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I feel most myself when I'm reading, but by that I don't mean that I'm most comfortable when I'm reading. I feel most fully a person who's torn between attention and inattention, between loving and hating, between hyper-responsiveness and total dullness. Reading is not a comfortable experience for me.
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I felt a sort of energy flow through me that I had never felt before — as if I was a part of something greater than myself
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I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.
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I have a great deal of experience in justifying myself to myself.
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I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.
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You have to expose part of yourself to create a character deep enough for readers to care about. You try not to because it's hard and at times shameful, but then when you read those pages over and you see they have no life to them so you throw them away and force yourself to be more honest. So I suppose the answer is I see myself in all my characters, in their best moments and in their worst.
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When I was 20 and ran my first race, I told myself I don't know how I'm going to do this for a living. I don't have the money to do it. But it is what I want to do.
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When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene.
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Much as I try to disguise myself, there is never a time when I'm not aware of being overweight.
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There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.
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Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet I'm already under and living within the ocean.
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The more precisely I can drive, the more I enjoy myself.
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I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.
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I prefer to keep my secrets to myself, to the grave... and beyond!
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I will walk by myself and cure myself in the sunshine and the wind.
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I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.
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I would never let myself knock out a journalist.
