- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Myself Quotes
Quotes on knowing yourself.
These quotes turn inward, questioning long-held traditions and how one sees oneself - one recalls identifying strongly as a mathematician rather than a technologist, while another admits, with some humor, to relying on charm rather than looks. Related reading includes I Am Quotes.
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- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, acting comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am ready to take it just as it is written, and to stand by it with all my heart.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and a vague idea of how the scene might work, and you then add funny words or change the script. I'm not the world's best writer or the world's best actor, but I can do that thing where I can fix - or ruin - fix-slash-ruin, add quirk, add value.
- Nov 07, 2020
I find myself consistently drawn to writing about intimacy and the way we construct one another.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think of myself as busy because I don't even have to get dressed most days.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I gave myself the small task of writing honestly about the kind of life I knew. I believe there is some value in carrying out that task, however limited.
- Kitchen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be easy to blame Hollywood to say that I was typed and forced to play the same role over and over. For a while, I did. But the truth is that I knew what I was doing. I was enjoying myself. I was making money.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made some good pictures, and I made some bad ones. I wasn't trying to build an image, though; I was trying to build a life for myself.
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- Nov 07, 2020