Self Quotes - Page 20

• I always get self-conscious about what I look like in a film, but less so if I'm a character very far removed from who I am. Then I just worry about the performance, and that's equally an odd experience.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Character, Who I Am, Worry

  "Q&A: Benedict Cumberbatch talks Penguins Of Madagascar". Interview with Andy Lea, www.dailystar.co.uk. December 7, 2014.

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• I always tell myself, when I remember the non-stop self-generated hell party that used to be my life, I wouldn't be here if I didn't go there.

  Jerry Stahl

  Party, Remember, Hell

  "Go Forth". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. December 17, 2013.

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• Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind of dramatization of the self that you don't have to engage in in the essay. In fact, the essay is a more social medium than the poem.

  Vijay Seshadri

  Character, Interesting, Historical

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• Society imposes an identity on you because of the way you look. Your struggle as a self has to do with an identity being imposed on you that you know is not your identity.

  Vijay Seshadri

  Struggle, Identity, Way

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• You don't have freedom unless you have the freedom to do stupid self-destructive things.

  Penn Jillette

  Stupid, Self Destructive, Destructive

  "The Situation with Tucker Carlson", www.nbcnews.com. August 16, 2005.

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• There's no wrong way to meditate. And meditation should never be a difficult practice that leads to self criticism.

  Moby

  Practice, Meditation, Criticism

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 5, 2014.

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• With material wealth and in a culture where many of us defines our self-worth by what we have and what we own and what we achieve, it's very hard to comprehend that there are enclaves all over our big country in which people are very purposefully choosing to maintain different values.

  Debra Granik

  Country, Self Worth, People

  "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.

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• For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, "I have to write some of my kind of songs now."

  Alan Licht

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Being Yourself, Advice, Want

  "Nikki Giovanni - Celebrity Guest Author Interview". Interview with Cheryl Holloway, www.cherylholloway.net. February 14, 2014.

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• Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.

  Steven Pressfield

  Art, War, Force

  "10 Questions with Steven Pressfield, Author of The War of Art". Interview with Jeff Goins, goinswriter.com. May 11, 2011.

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• I approach the film business the way I feel about self-esteem. It's something that has to be maintained. That's kind of how I feel about positive roles in Hollywood. They have to be maintained. You have to purposefully, intentionally try to make the right type of films. And the more people that do that, the more things will continue to improve.

  Queen Latifah

  Self Esteem, People, Trying

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• The only long-term motivation is self motivation. So hire people who are self motivated and get out of their way.

  Seth Godin

  Motivation, Long, People

  "Seth Godin: On Passion, Fighting Resistance & Being Weird". Experian Information Solutions Interview, www.experian.com.

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• We [Facebook] really believe in enabling people to be their authentic selves on the web, and enabling people to communicate directly with each other in a very personal way.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Believe, People, Enabling

  Source: techcrunch.com

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• When you look at your freelance career, it's really like a mall. And if you look at a mall, it's a self-contained system that has a flow and logic to it. You'll probably have one or two really bigger jobs, those are like your anchor stores.

  Chris Hardwick

  Jobs, Anchors, Careers

  "How Nerdist Chris Hardwick Gets Things Done". Interview with Kevin Purdy, lifehacker.com. April 29, 2008.

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• I'm wonderfully self-lacerating, probably to my character's detriment. I'm terribly open to critique.

  David Shields

  Character, Critique

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I don't like to have anybody tell me to be in a place at certain times. That's kind of the advantage of stand up. You're self-employed.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Kind, Advantage, Certain

  "Zach Galifianakis: Soon You Will Be Laughing at This Man". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. June 2, 2009.

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• The world is not the illusion. It's you who are the illusion.

  Chuck Hillig

  World, Illusion

  Chuck Hillig (2007). “Seeds for the Soul: Living as the Source of who You are”, p.235, Sentient Publications

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• I feel passionately about how I express myself. Language is the greatest motivating force. You can phrase something positively and inspire people to do their best, or negatively and make them feel worried, uncertain, and self-conscious. You can talk at a fast pace and people will get nervous, feel afraid to bring up extraneous thoughts. But those are the very thoughts that might be most important! They might represent that person's best thinking. If you're rushed, you're simply not going to get at that extra level of thinking.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Thinking, People, Inspire

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• To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Skins, Prejudice, Would Be

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• The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Deception, Mind, Infinite

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• The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical, hypocritical, prejudiced, fanatical, cocoa-blooded atavists, who soothe their inferiority complex by barking their hatred of anything new.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Stupid, Pigs, Hatred

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• We go into a relationship looking for love, not realizing that we must bring love with us. We must bring a strong sense of self and purpose into a relationship. We must bring a sense of value, of who we are. We must bring an excitement about ourselves, our lives, and the vision we have for these two essential elements. We must bring a respect for wealth and abundance. Having achieved it to some satisfactory degree on our own, we must move into relationships willing to share what we have, rather than being afraid of someone taking it.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Strong, Moving, Two

  "In the Meantime". Book by Iyanla Vanzant, www.cnn.com. 1998.

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• [Our self-image is] that gap between intention and effect

  Diane Arbus

  Gaps, Intention, Effects

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• Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages and friendships come apart.

  Helen Van Slyke

  Pride, Vanity, Rejection

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• Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good.

  William H. Prescott

  Enlightened, Interest, Public Good

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