- Poetry
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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
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm playing 'Rock Band,' I'm like, 'Man, someday, later on in life when I'm a famous rock star...' Which gets a little harder to convince myself of as I reach middle age, but it still happens a lot.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I didn't have a lot of friends, so that's what made videogames so important. They played back. I could do them myself. Solitaire can't surprise you; there's no AI. But videogames play back with you.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People talk about games and loneliness - it's a lonely activity. I didn't understand that. 'Gears of War' was the first multiplayer game for me that I enjoyed. But I wasn't sad. I liked being alone. I liked playing games by myself. I had lots of companionship at the house.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
What works for me in 'Indiana Jones' is the fact that I can project myself onto the character. Maybe if I was cool enough, I could do what he does. But I can't do that if the story breaks the rules of reality in too large of a degree.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a late bloomer, but I realised that people really liked it when I played blues scales and, with the piano, I had that insatiable need to prove myself.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can wax boringly about the role of comedy in mitigating pain. For so many comedians, comedy comes out of personal despair. I'm not a very despairing person myself, but I do fear despair and the death of loved ones.
- Hometown
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played piano for cabaret stars and stuff and then eventually moved from my hometown of Perth in Western Australia to Melbourne, and somewhere in there, I decided to book myself a room and do a cabaret show of my own material.
- Privacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no privacy in our culture anymore, so I have to try and carve that out for myself, but I'm OK with it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I did everything I could to establish myself, but it just didn't work that way. I'm not angry about that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't stop myself from finding information that makes me mad and writing about it.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
At this point, if I were to psychoanalyze myself, I'd have to say I am a clown, cleverly disguised as a regular person.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020