Myself Quotes
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There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times.
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When I was younger, I thought that everything would just come to me eventually, but now I see I have to take the initiative and practise to improve myself.
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I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.
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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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As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opportunities I felt I deserved, and continue to have them, I was going to have to start creating those opportunities for myself.
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I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure.
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From a young age, I was a pretty good listener, a strong lady. Maybe it helped me that I never felt intimidated by anybody. Even at school, I was always strong. I believed in myself, in what I do.
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I view myself as a dealmaker.
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Sometimes I Google myself just to see what people are saying. But we all do that. If someone tells you that they don't, then they are lying.
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I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.
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I'm totally myself.
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I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to calm myself down, to keep my perspective when I'm playing, to not make too big a deal of it... that's where I go to. The peace that comes with that allows me to play free golf.
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The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.
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I listen to music to when I'm feeling a certain way or to make myself feel a certain way. So why not make my own music inspired by true emotions?
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I want to make a name for myself.
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I actually had a nickname as a player myself. When I played high school football in Texas, strong safety, they called me Choo Choo because they said I hit like a train.
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Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.
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I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.
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I can't stand watching myself on TV.
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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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I wouldn't call myself religious. I'm spiritual. Everybody's a bit more so as you get older. I'm a cultural Catholic; it's inescapable, but I think I have to believe.
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I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.
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It's not the moment yet for me to enjoy my time as an actor, and as the time goes by, I feel that I need to push myself harder to pay back for all the good fortune that I have received.
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I find myself, by happy accident, writing 'Young Adult' fiction. However, I dislike such categories.
