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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
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really out of touch with myself emotionally. I've always had a hard time talking about how I feel.
- Concealing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I find myself in an exceptionally beautiful environment, I can't help asking myself - what lies beneath? I'm fascinated by the idea of a perfect surface concealing a rotten core.
- Support
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once 'Walk Two Moons' received the Newbery Medal, I decided to write full-time. Partly because there seemed to be an audience out there who wanted to read what I wanted to write, and partly because I could now support myself financially through writing.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once fell 20 feet from a tree, was knocked unconscious, and when I picked myself up and straggled home, my parents thought I was making it up. However, when my brother and I fabricated a story about an encounter with a bear, they believed that! So maybe I learned very early on that fiction was more interesting to listeners!
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to go back and spend a Christmas with my family and myself when I was five years old and just see what that dynamic would be like. Observe it. I think it would be a magical gift.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 17 when my body started changing, and I worried about what I did wrong. I went through a period where I didn't eat at all. I also had someone who was encouraging me to take diet pills. I pushed myself to the extreme because I woke up one day and had hips - and a butt - and thought, 'Oh my gosh, I'm getting fat!'
- Define
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't define myself by my successes. I define myself by adversity and how I've persevered.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I surround myself with great people. I listen to what they have to say. But at the end of the day, I rely on my gut.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is really hard when your life is scrutinized by people who don't know you and who don't really know what the situation is. So I avoid the good and the bad and just try to live in a world where I can insulate myself from whatever is out there.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've trained myself not to put too much emphasis on awards, only because I never got into acting to win an award.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not interested in going to casting after casting, trying to get into that game. So there is a part of me that knows that I will do more characters, even if I have to produce those projects myself to get those projects out there. If the right characters come along, I would love to. I would jump at the chance.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I basically built myself up and I'm not about to let somebody else tear me down.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020