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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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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer.
- Columnist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always thought of myself as more of a columnist, but maybe a columnist who does reporting.
- Nov 07, 2020
I myself have been a major beneficiary of the view that no animal will more repay treatment that is kind and fair.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought of myself as a king. People really want you to be their deity. They forget the fact that you are a person who has feelings and doubts.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are parts of me that I keep secret even from myself. I have demons and I'd love to be able to healthily look at the demons and still be a wonderful actor and not feel I need them to create.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a boy in school, I already had the drive to be No. 1. If I achieve my goals, OK, but if not, I always ask why and try to rectify myself.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The important thing to know is that life will always deal us a few bad cards, but we have to play those cards the best we can. And we can play to win. This was one lesson I picked up when I was a teenager. It has been my guiding principle ever since. When I wanted something, the best person to depend on was myself.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely don't see myself as an actor. I don't even have it on my passport. I've got 'writer and electrician' on my passport. I don't want anyone to think I'm an actor.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say.
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- Nov 07, 2020
To do that I try and keep myself in pretty good shape physically and I try to lead my life in such a way that I'll be able to be as strong at the end of the movie as I am in the beginning.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.
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