Myself Quotes
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I think that being read to every night is the reason why I was plowing through volume after volume of 'Nancy Drew' books all by myself by the time I reached the first grade. I loved stories. I loved the escape. I had a vivid imagination.
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I'm doing what I wanted to do since I was a young girl. I pinch myself every day to make sure it's true.
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I made two rings for myself, and when I was in Los Angeles, I walked into a store called Maxfields, and they essentially bought them off my hands.
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I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
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And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, maybe like I could have. But I had to do what I had to do to make myself successful.
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When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
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I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me.
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You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.
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I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'
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What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.
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I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.
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I can't ever see myself playing the romantic lead because that's not me; I'm not that girl.
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When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a lover, as a daughter.
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I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
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I do not want to repeat myself. I want to reach for something I've never attained. This is the excitement of art.
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The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.
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When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'
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It's good for me to do things outside my comfort zone and push myself.
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I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?
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I'm lucky I live near Whole Foods... so if I'm hungry, I can walk in there and grab something yummy... already made... or make it myself. I love to cook. I make a killer marinara sauce.
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Honestly, I've just made music so long by myself, in some ways I don't feel I'm a very good collaborator.
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My husband is always telling me I need to do less, do less, do less. But I feel like if I'm not being productive, I have a hard time relaxing and enjoying myself.
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I always have to just be myself. Anything else, I'm not happy, and it comes out musically.
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I'm always trying to find something new for my customers. Every season, I try to top myself and push it a little further.
