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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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- Nov 07, 2020
I find myself very attached to the places I live, and moving is never easy for me.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always thought of myself as a writer, only because I need things to direct, and I can't not write the things that I direct.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always said my shoulders are broad, and I can take on that extra responsibility. I love it. I want it. I prefer to take it on myself to help the other guys, who can then go out and play with their heads clear and calm.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a father myself for the first time in my life, and I had very very loving parents.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been an independent entrepreneur from the beginning, and I felt I could do it myself. I didn't want to get a job.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write best when I sort of collide myself with another man. So I think, I hope, that a combination of me and Stieg Larsson will create something good.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the Galapagos Islands, and while I was there, I saw a particular problem in behavioral biology that I wanted to solve and, in the process, made myself into a bird ecologist.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a very shy sort of person, and by acting different characters, I could immerse myself and make them do what, perhaps, I wouldn't do.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
A couple of years ago, I bought my own helicopter, a Robinson R44. I use it occasionally to fly myself to sets where I am filming or to business meetings.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I seem to get the best out of myself when the pressure's on. My senses are heightened. I feel sharper. I do better things.
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- Nov 07, 2020