Myself Quotes
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I myself was completely torn by the decision to start Teach For America. There was a voice in my head telling me not to do it - to take a more normal path. I did have one thing going for me, which was that I had been rejected from all the other jobs I'd applied to.
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As a senior in high school, you figure out what you want to do with your life. I asked myself if I wanted to get back into acting and thought: 'Yes, but under my own terms and nothing like it was before.'
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I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it's so easy to revise, I tended to stay on the same page. I've learned to discipline myself.
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I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
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One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.
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I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.
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I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.
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I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.
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You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.
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Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
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I don't see myself as someone that brings a lot of luggage.
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My military service is the thing I'm most proud of, but when I think of everything happening in the Middle East, I can't help but tell myself I wish we would have achieved some sort of lasting victory. No one touched that subject before Trump, especially not in the Republican Party.
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Even as a kid, I would always imagine horrible circumstances in which I would find myself in my head, and imagine how I would feel, and act it out a bit for myself, because I was a bit of a freak like that. I love doing things like that, and I get a real buzz from it afterwards.
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I kind of put myself out there as is. I'm a quiet person. I don't know if that's surprising. I'm a Pilates junkie.
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I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.
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I pride myself on definitely being more than a dunker.
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I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
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I take my dog Tinkerbell seriously. I take my job seriously. But I don't take myself all that seriously.
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After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.
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As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.
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I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.
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I characterize myself a little bit as a reluctant filmmaker. I learned from watching my friend in college stay up late at night, at 2 A.M., just to get the lighting right, and I thought, 'You know what, if that's what it's going to be like, I think I'm just going to write,' and I did that.
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If I have to degrade myself or do something that I'm not willing to do as a Christian to get something, I'm just not willing to do it.
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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.
