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• I think a lot of great male comic actors are introspective, quiet personalities, which I really admire. But they are really able to turn it up when the camera's on.

  Peter Dinklage

  Thinking, Personality, Cameras

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 23, 2007.

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• I'm an introspective dude.

  Dave Chappelle

  "On the Beach With Dave Chappelle". Interview with Christopher John Farley, content.time.com. May 15, 2005.

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• Take a yoga class, study different forms of self-discovery. Some people are crazy and fanatical, avoid them. People who are balanced and calm and introspective, associating with them will raise your energy level.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Crazy, Yoga

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• At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible. We need to cultivate a deeply refined introspective sense, and build our relationship to learning around our nuance of character.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Character, Ideas, Needs

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• I've always been pretty serious and introspective.

  Don Most

  Serious

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• Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There is an almost quaint correlation between what is in front of our eyes and the thoughts we are able to have in our heads: large thoughts at times requiring large views, new thoughts new places. Introspective reflections which are liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape. The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do.

  Alain de Botton

  Moving, Eye, Reflection

  Alain de Botton (2003). “The Art of Travel”, p.32, Penguin UK

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• I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I really think about it.

  Ellen Barkin

  Mistake, Thinking, Faults

  "Ellen Barkin on 'Another Happy Day,' Sam Levinson, and Being a 'Broad'". Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.thedailybeast.com. November 15, 2011.

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• I just put out a hardcore double album. Next I'm gonna put out an introspective album.

  Tupac Shakur

  Albums, Next, Hardcore

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• I always have been introspective, since I was a little kid, since I could remember, I was sitting in a closet trying to write out the meaning of the universe. That's been my whole life.

  Jim Carrey

  Writing, Kids, Trying

  "Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen and Joel Schumacher Count to The Number 23". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. February 18, 2007.

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• The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.

  Vin Diesel

  Roles, Film, Brooding

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• I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

  Jane Goodall

  Believe, Wind, Bird

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• Apparently I'm introspective... levelheaded... but at the same time, absolutely insane.

  Ellie Goulding

  Insane

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has never quite left them. They are often isolated, introspective people, often confrontational or anarchic in some way, often damaged or secretly unhappy or incomplete.

  Joanne Harris

  Hero, Past, People

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• Was he smart enough? Introspective enough? Was it just enough to love him, or should I attach myself to someone who seemed farther ahead of me, someone smarter and more ambitious than me, who'd be sure to carry me along into the version of adulthood I thought I should be striving for?

  Caroline Knapp

  Smart, Ambitious, Enough

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• Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.

  Drew Goddard

  Way, Incredibles, Force

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• The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.

  William S. Burroughs

  Men, Thinking, Brain

  William S. Burroughs (1984). “Naked lunch”, Grove Pr

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• Many bad golfers marry, feeling that a wife's loving solicitude may improve their game. But they are rugged, thick-skinned men, not sensitive and introspective. It is one of the chief merits of golf that non-success at the game induces a certain amount of decent humilty, which keeps a man from pluming himself too much on any petty triumphs he may achieve in other walks of life.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Men, Games

  P.G. Wodehouse (2013). “The Golf Omnibus”, p.163, Random House

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• This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant extroverts, and helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to.

  Harry Reasoner

  Airplane, Ironic, Different

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• I have made plenty of mistakes. The key to life is to learn from them. I have been a little too introspective, but I think that stemmed from insecurity or shyness. I took a long time to grow up.

  Richard Gere

  Growing Up, Mistake, Thinking

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• I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.

  Lois Lowry

  Book, Thinking, Action

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• I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking

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• The trouble with getting introspective when you're pregnant is that you never know who you might run into.

  Carrie Fisher

  Running, Pregnancy, Might

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• Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But it's really more introspective than communicative. Like a crossword puzzle compared to a poem.

  Paul Desmond

  Keys, Different, Balls

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• Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through understanding the contents of his own mind, through observation, not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection.

  Radhanath Swami

  Philosophical, Men, Organization

  Radhanath Swami (2016). “The Journey Home”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• Once you're done being president, you tend to want to defend your record more than plumb your inner feelings. I find it hard to imagine Obama going home at night and writing sensitive, introspective journal entries about his meeting with John Boehner.

  Gail Collins

  Home, Writing, Night

  "Political Introspection". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 10, 2013.

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