- Me
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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
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first moved from Shanghai when I was five, I just thought of myself as Chinese.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I got older, I realised that people saw me as other things - sometimes Korean, sometimes Japanese, sometimes just Asian. When my family moved to a more affluent white neighbourhood, I started to see myself as 'other', this amorphous category. I didn't even know what 'not other' was, but I knew I wasn't it; I wasn't what was normal.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it was really important for me before I 'debuted myself' in front of the world to have a private life with my imagination and my writing for several years. That also made it so I didn't feel desperate for someone to find me.
- Fluency
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- Nov 07, 2020
My privileged upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness that it stung all the more to still find myself outside of it. My mother, on the other hand, not only accepted that she would always be an outsider in this country but also believed it to be a finer fate and home than any other she could have had.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's like a weird mindset to wake up and want to be wanted. Like, I want to be wanted so much already... and I'm so greedy for other people's desire that I have to really force myself to have some shame about it and some control, neither of which come easily to me.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find it quite hard to connect with the songs where I portray myself as this clumsy, adorable, love-struck man-child.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in my early 30s, and I longed for real friendships and real relationships, and I started asking myself why I didn't have that. I had a couple of male friends, but every time I would hang out with them, it felt like there was something keeping us apart.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have this part in myself that sometimes gets me into situations that can never end well, just because I want to prove to myself that I'm no good.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess what I learned about myself is I'm a bit of a socialist; I want everyone on the set to get equal treatment and credit.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to give myself time to deal with an issue. I get to the root of the matter and learn from it. I don't like to repeat mistakes.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think about the gender thing very much. But when I speak at schools, I've had female students say to me afterwards, "I never envisioned myself being a director, since I've never seen women do it." But after seeing me, they can picture themselves directing, so maybe we'll see more female directors.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.
- Being Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to support things that are helpful to people and maybe bash what I think is dangerous. So I switched from being everybody to being myself.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020