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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
- Depress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care of myself without any aid, did not at all depress me. If sometimes I felt lonesome, my usual state of mind was one of calm and great moral satisfaction.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as myself. I would be broken with fatigue at the day's end. Other days, on the contrary, the work would be a most minute and delicate fractional crystallization, in the effort to concentrate the radium.
- Devote
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have children, and I'm not in a relationship, so I have the time to devote to myself.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had this interest in sibling relationships because I don't have any siblings. I'm completely a product of the one-child policy in China, so I always kind of wished that I had an older brother or a younger brother or sister just to have that bond, so I find myself constantly writing about that relationship.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first came over to the States, I started writing, I think, as a way to help myself learn English. I would start stapling together little booklets for myself.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 30 I thought my life was over. I thought I'd have made something of myself by then, that life would somehow have made the necessary arrangements - but actually I had nothing.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of myself as only being an actress when I'm acting, but my friends will say I act all the time.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do take care of myself; I get my nails done, and I have a skin doctor, but that's it. I'm clean and groomed.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never like photos of myself in the beginning. I live with them for three months, put them in a drawer, take them out and look again. I hate the way I look, but of course it's really not that bad.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't consider myself a massive self-promoter, and I don't feel I've ever had to behave in a way that didn't come natural to me in order to progress.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I naively thought I would quit television writing, move up to Seattle, my novel would come out, and then I'd have a novel writing career, and so I found myself really stuck in this very poisonous self-pitying state and felt like I'd never write again. And I blamed Seattle for that.
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- Nov 07, 2020