- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yourself Quotes
The hardest audience is yourself.
These quotes turn inward — an actor describing the fear that comes before any audience does, and thoughts on the quiet value of lowering the noise and simply listening more closely. For more on inner confidence, see Feel quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Fiddling
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that way. All you have is language. Why write beneath yourself? It's an act of respect for the reader as much as yourself.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're more constrained when you're wealthy. Or when you're making a bigger film and people complain about no budgets; but having a small amount of money to make a film means you're at your absolute freest to express yourself as an artist.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What scares me is what scares you. We're all afraid of the same things. That's why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have to do is ask yourself what frightens you and you'll know what frightens me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can have the most wonderful motives for what you do, but if what you do harms other people, you're fooling yourself.
- Sea
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our world is drowning in a sea of self-centeredness. You can make yourself quite unique right away by leaving this ocean of selfishness and choosing to be curious about other people.
- Drown
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios. You put more pressure on yourself to make everything that much harder.
- Nov 07, 2020
Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
- Calm
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- Nov 07, 2020