Yourself Quotes
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One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.
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It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always.
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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I guess I would say: above anything else, stay true to yourself. Whether that means for you that you like to have blue hair, or you don’t like to drink, or you are attracted to the same sex, or you want to remove yourself from Facebook, or you’ve got 3 different kids from 3 different dads but you know you’re a really good mom, or you cry for a week because your turtle died. Whatever your truth is, stay true to yourself. But be a good person while you’re at it.
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I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.
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I think you can feel good about yourself at any size and any shape. Nobody should be made to feel inferior because they have a certain body type.
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I do feel that I need to do at least one more Western - I think you need to make three Westerns to call yourself a Western director.
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.
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When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.
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It's not about me, it's about my family. You don't answer questions for you, but for us. You learn to live beyond yourself.
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So Am I' is about loving yourself, being different, being an outcast and not fitting in the format that society wants to put us in - just celebrating what really makes you different.
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The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
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When we were doing 'The West Wing,' the hardest thing about doing 'The West Wing' was being compared to yourself. You go out there and want every episode to be as good as your best episode. I wrote 88 episodes of 'The West Wing,' and when you do that, one of them is going to be your 88th best, so your 88th best better be pretty good.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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Once you lose your parents, you get this numbness, this feeling of having to really be able to connect yourself with someone. I depended on my brothers for that connection, but to have that feeling of being taken care of... I lost it when my parents passed away.
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When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.
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When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.
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You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.
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Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
