- 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
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
L. Ram Saran Das was sentenced to death in 1915, and the sentence was later commuted to life transportation. Today myself, sitting in the condemned cell, I can let the readers know as authoritatively that the life-imprisonment is comparatively a far harder lot than that of death.
- Loneliness
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the no man's land between the country of my past and the continent of my present.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood I'd grown up in was homogeneously Hindu, Bengali-speaking, and middle-class. I didn't expect myself to ever disobey or disappoint my father by setting my own goals and taking charge of my future.
- Gaining
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a girl, the thought of gaining weight wasn't easy, but when I thought as an actor, I was very sure. That gave me the confidence, and I started training myself to gain weight, and then, as planned, I lost weight.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my mind, I work out situations. Like, how I should play if I bat for four overs, or how should I approach myself if its 10 overs. These are things I work at the nets.
- Shots
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- Nov 07, 2020
I trust myself. I trust my shots.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I travelled to Germany to witness for myself what nationalism, populism and the breakdown of peace between the great European nations had done. Amidst the rubble I made great friends who have remained friends for the rest of our lives.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I say to myself: ‘Come on, Betty, you can’t have everything in life. You’ve been very lucky.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020