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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My friends kidded me about going so far on such modest talent. I always agreed with them. I had no illusions about my films, nor did I consider myself anything special as an actor or a singer.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn't like or the ground didn't like, I could flip a switch, and I could control seven, over seven and a half million pounds of thrust with this handle and fly the thing to the Moon myself.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the project has good writing and is something I get excited about, then I'll do the role. And if it's for TV, I'll ask myself, 'Is it a show that I'd watch?' If it's a play or movie, I'll want to know if there's a good director attached.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played this character twice in live action, and now I've become an animated character. It was actually fun to see myself drawn - I've never been a drawn character before.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have faith in myself.
- Nov 07, 2020
I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got dropped for the World Cup, there were times I didn't want to play anymore. I didn't want to practise. I couldn't motivate myself. Then I said, 'Look what are the options?' Cricket is the only option. Whether I play happily or sadly, it's still all I have. There are not a lot of things I am good at.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.
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- Nov 07, 2020