- Moment
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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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. - Will it ever be more than a picture?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's too heart-wrenching doing the solo thing. I throw myself into it and get so excited, and then 2000 people buy it and you're, like, 'Oh. I guess it's not that good after all.'
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to England for five months when I was in high school, by myself, so I did experience a bit of being the fish out of water.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started seriously applying myself to writing fiction immediately after I finished graduate school. By 'seriously,' I mean that, instead of noodling along on a story, finishing it or not as the mood struck me, I set out to complete what I started, to polish it to the best of my ability, and to send out the finished story.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love print fiction, but sometimes when I'm reading a good graphic novel or manga, I find myself envying those who work in an illustrated format.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always ended up having the funny part in Shakespeare, but I really thought I'd be doing theater. That was my ambition for myself.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I probably am more shy than people realize. But I'm shy when I leave a studio and I am just myself.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see myself as life-sized, certainly not a supersized personality, and apparently after 30 years of television, that's what the audience thinks of me as well. I know this because for the first time in my career, I've just seen market research, and the thing I am known for is being authentic.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't mean it to sound egomaniacal, but in a way, for me, it was very useful to imagine that I was the only one who was taking pen in hand. I'd always been told that it was impossible to be published, so I was writing only for myself.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people.
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- Nov 07, 2020