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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're basically this very young species, only 200,000 years old. We're one of the newcomers, and we're going through the same process that other species go through, which is, how do I keep myself alive while taking care of the place that's going to keep my offspring alive?
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When I got home from hospital, and I was in a wheelchair in a plaster body cast, an aeroplane flew over. And I thought to myself, 'Well, if I can't walk, then I might as well fly.' And I was lifted into the aeroplane for the first time. And when I took the controls of the aeroplane, I knew this was something I could do. I thought, 'I can fly.'
- Mistakes
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My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.
- Selfish
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I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means.
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I'm not a reality TV star. I pride myself on witnessing, watching people, studying people, and being able to recreate that and create a human being.
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A band asked me to go on tour when I was 22 and asked me to play drums, and I taught myself so I could go on this trip with these people. The drums found me; I didn't find them. When I started playing, I realized how appropriate an instrument it was for me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Give me a chance to prove myself because there's nothing that I love more than acting. I feel a sense of responsibility towards anyone who feels that I don't deserve to be here as there are so many others struggling to get into films.
- Life
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I know nothing comes easily in life and I don't want to make things easy for myself.
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I feel myself becoming the fearless person I have dreamt of being. Have I arrived? No. But I'm constantly evolving and challenging myself to be unafraid to make mistakes.
- Envision
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When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission.
- Music
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I was into the music scene, but I was also a bit of a perfectionist and very hard on myself... very dark in that way.
- Feeling
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But then I got a job selling coffee at the York Theatre, and when I met theatre people, something clicked. I felt comfortable with them; I felt like myself. I decided to go to drama school based just on that feeling. I had never done any acting.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have become a marketing tool and I feel very uncomfortable with that. There's no space for me to express myself.
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I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.
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