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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
- Humility
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humility is the armour that you clothe yourself with throughout your life. We demean each other rather than lift up ourselves.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
In each moment, you have a choice where you can build yourself up or tear yourself down, and choosing to build yourself up is always within your power.
- Nov 07, 2020
I wish I could have gone back and told myself what I know now: Accepting yourself is the way to go.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
But then of course you reach a point where you have to say, I've got to figure out how this book's going to end. Otherwise, you're going to write yourself into so many dead-ends.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, if you wander long enough out-of-doors, you look up and find yourself in a suddenly devastating place: on a glittering slab of granite, say, hanging a thousand feet above a mountain lake.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like you are allowed in fiction to embrace imagination and try to enter other worlds. And I feel like you should push yourself to try to persuade your reader that you have the authority to engage with people who, you know, lived in the past, who live in the future, other genders, other places, other cultures.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did go to an MFA program, at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. For me, it worked perfectly. It was a small program. They only take five fiction writers a year, and they fund all of us - you don't go into debt to get an MFA. It's not like getting an MBA - you're not going to buy yourself out.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need to be imagining all the time, imagining yourself outside the walls of your own skull.
- Life Is Short
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is short, and there's something to be said for being true to yourself.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
The building I most admire is the Doges Palace in Venice, both by day and by night. Looking at it from the lagoon, it resembles a floating kilim carpet. I love all the bridges which connect houses, people, gardens and palaces. I also love moats to isolate yourself. A ha-ha for secrecy, as in every English country garden.
- Nov 07, 2020
You are your main news platform, so no publication has as much power as you do about posting about yourself.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't try to be me. No one but me can be me. But you can be you. Look inside yourself and get to know who the real you is. And then be that person. The best version of you.
- Amazing Things
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- Nov 07, 2020