- Man
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have spent the past several years working so hard to just move on, and to try and build a life for myself.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm taking better care of myself by eating healthy, exercising and doing my best to keep my stress level down as well as role modeling good habits for my kids.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm gonna be honest with you - since I started 'First Take,' I don't Google myself.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to get up every morning at 6:30 to work out. Then, when I've kept with it all week, I give myself something I really want, like a new handbag or a piece of jewelry I'm coveting.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
My image is me. I talk for myself. I didn't become this person others wanted me to be.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I myself had to grow a longer beard and Afghan clothes. I was in danger of being kidnapped by smugglers, though I didn't know it at the time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was really shy when I was younger, so my mom got me into an acting class to see if I would open myself up more in front of an audience. Her plan was for me to just talk more.
- Handling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can see myself doing production work and handling projects behind the scenes.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the main reasons I write fiction is to try to understand what life is like for people other than myself, to try to see the world through my characters' eyes. I often find that I'm able to understand certain emotional truths about my own life by exploring things from different vantages.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that we should write towards the unknown aspects of our experience was totally groundbreaking for me. It gave me the license I needed to try to write outside myself. This attitude has deeply informed my approach to fiction, emboldening me to write characters with voices or situations that are vastly different from my own.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love being in the archives, traveling, sitting in dusty places and looking at books with brittle pages. I love reading biographies and researching, to make myself informed about whatever political or historical time I'm writing about. From there, a lot of the emotional truths about my characters emerge.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020