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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
- Edward
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alan Moore's first choice to be the Comedian... was Burt Reynolds. But I never saw myself as Burt Reynolds; I saw myself as Edward Blake.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to push myself, you know.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.
- Frequent
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider myself a frequent flyer, flying roughly 200 times a year on mostly mainstream airlines.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.
- Mood
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a lot of playing by myself, wearing last year's Halloween costume and wandering around the yard talking to myself - which may account for my fondness for doing different voices.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to be really shy, and I think something happened in my brain where I was like, 'All right, I don't care anymore. I'm just going to be myself.' So I went to school wearing eyeliner and eye shadow, and they called my mom, telling her it was a distraction. My mom fought the school, and I got to wear makeup every day.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people, like myself, rock colored contacts, crazy hair, and black all year round.
- Technology
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started in comics in 2005, ten years ago, and at that time, I didn't have a cell phone. I don't even think I had a computer myself, you know. And just in those ten years, how much technology has changed.
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- Nov 07, 2020