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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.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been multi-cultural myself. I'm not black and I'm not white and I'm not pink and I'm not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my thirties I found myself, to use a colloquial fiction, in a suburban house at the foothills of the Dublin mountains. Married and with two little daughters, I led a life which would have been recognizable to any woman who had led it and to many others who had not.
- Nov 07, 2020
I see myself as a story teller.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, people sometimes say to me, 'Do you prefer to do this or that, act or do stand-up or write' but the thing that I enjoy most is the difference between all of them, because you're always learning. I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything. I'm actually lucky to have the chance to fail at all of them.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that, or it's like this, and that's really up to them, that's fine, but I don't sit around all day analysing it. I just try and enjoy a show and interest myself because if I don't do that then I won't interest anybody else.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had already been approached to do modeling, but in the beginning, I didn't want to hear of it. Then, after two months of delivering pizza, I changed my mind, and I presented myself at the agency.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
- Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
- Perhaps
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist.
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