Myself Quotes
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	At sleepovers I would have panic attacks trying to break it to girls that they didn't want to kiss me without outing myself.   
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	I think as you get older, you realize there's always going to be critics. Critics are going to win every time because they can change their critique based on the stats and their own personal feelings. It's less about proving people wrong, the critics wrong, and it's more about challenging myself to keep this level up.   
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	I think more and more that I get to challenge myself and kind of raise the standard for myself every season. Even the term 'fashion' is about change. It's about newness. And what that newness means is different every 10 years, every five years.   
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	It's important that I get time to run, to just go for a jog for about 30 minutes. It helps with my voice, but it also kind of gives me a little bit of time to myself - and you get to see a city.   
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	I don't project no image. I just act like myself. I write about how I feel, the emotional stage I'm in at the time. So I write from the heart. I never write from my mind. My brain, I mean.   
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	I don't call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I don't.   
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	Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.   
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	After my first 'Sports Illustrated' cover, I felt terrible about myself for a solid month. People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. I'm not a toy; I'm a human. I'm not here to be used.   
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	Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.   
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	I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper.   
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	I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!   
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	I myself am a great James Dean fan. He had this aura and enigma about him.   
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	If it weren't for singing, I don't know what else I would do with myself.   
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	In 10 years, I don't really know what I'll be, and I like not having any idea. I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.   
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	I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don't know what I'm going to come at you with.   
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	I would consider myself to be a moderate Republican, but more important than that, I believe our system of government is the best system there is... and while I have no illusions of changing the world, I've had good opportunities in life, and I believe there's an obligation to give something back by participating.   
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	Richard Childress and myself have made some important innovations on our cars.   
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	There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.   
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	When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always thought of myself as a dramatic actress, but of course the opportunities for blacks weren't there at the time.   
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	Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.   
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	For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.   
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	By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger.   
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	I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.   
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	I like to think of myself as a 'Mord the jailer' type.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					