Yourself
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At one point, I was in a place where it didn't feel like it was going to happen, and I was feeling pretty down on myself. But I stuck to it, and now I have a hit comedy on my hands. You've got to keep plugging away at it. If you really believe in yourself, you can definitely make it happen.
Zachary Knighton
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Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
Ausonius
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Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.
Austin O'Malley
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Don't assume that because everyone believes a thing, that it is right or wrong. Reason things out for yourself. Work to get answers on your own. Understand why you believe things.
Avi
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I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.
Avi
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I don't really look at the charts at all. If anything, I try to out-do what I've done before. I try to make music that I like and I trust my own judgement with what will work with a wider audience. If you compare yourself to the charts, you lose perspective on what you're doing and why you're doing it.
Avicii
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You cannot limit yourself to one area of specialized craft. Instead, regardless of craft, you have to charge all forms of expression that lead to the community, to other people, with meaning.
Alexander Kluge
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We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.
Alexander Kluge
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What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of your head.
Aya Cash
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It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it.
Arthur Lydiard
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If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns.
Arthur Boyd
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You're too busy writing the next book to worry about Googling yourself all the time.
Annette Curtis Klause
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Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me.
Arielle Dombasle
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A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
Anthony Hecht
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If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead.
Anne Bancroft
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There are many people who say, 'I write for myself.' I think that if you write and publish, then you write for your readers, not just for yourself. Many writers say that they write to be loved. I place myself among those writers.
Angeles Mastretta
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Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself.
Andy Grammer
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I think you can say that life is a system in which proteins and nucleic acids interact in ways that allow the structure to grow and reproduce. It's that growth and reproduction, the ability to make more of yourself, that's important.
Andrew H. Knoll
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If you want to be taken seriously and gain credibility, you really do have to try and write yourself. I don't want to do an album of covers and stuff.
Amy Nuttall
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I laugh at it now, but one time I had an agent tell me I would never work in TV if I didn't get a nose job. People tell you to change yourself to fit into the L.A. scene, but the advice usually doesn't make any sense. The next agent told me my nose was great!
Amanda Righetti
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Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.
Alison McGhee
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Sometimes as an actor, it's really hard to give yourself permission to take your time and move slowly and not feel like you're holding people up or you should be going faster.
Alison Wright
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When I was younger, the red carpet used to terrify me because it's not about playing a part: you're not in a film pretending to be someone - you are yourself. It's intimidating.
Alexandra Maria Lara
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The best way to learn how to work with actors is to have had experience of trying to act yourself - it will teach you humility if nothing else.
Alexander Mackendrick
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Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.
Alberta Hunter
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Every now and then, you'll get one of those days when you're feeling rubbish or when you have to pretty much drag yourself out of bed to get to training. But then you'll see the Olympic pool, and all the excitement and adrenaline will come rushing back.
Aimee Willmott
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My advice to young actors is to push yourself and to aspire to be great.
Adriane Lenox
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Limit your inputs to only those that support a certain kind of self-destructive behavior, and you can be cheered with enthusiasm as you drive yourself off a cliff.
Adam-Troy Castro
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I would say I don't like people who are really into themselves or are very materialistic. Just always talking themselves up. Not being real is the pet peeve. Be true to yourself.
Austin Stowell
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At the beginning of 'The Hills,' I couldn't watch myself because I'm very critical and would pick myself to pieces. But with movies I feel like it's different because you're playing a character. So it's like watching yourself but not watching yourself.
Audrina Patridge
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Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force.
Auberon Herbert
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I'm so fascinated by YouTube culture. I have no idea how it's working, but more and more people are becoming Internet famous, and it is because it allows you to have an atmosphere in which you feel comfortable to be yourself, which you might not get otherwise.
Aubrey Peeples
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You need to understand the market, know how you can differentiate yourself in it, and grasp the price and the functional differentiation competitive points that are going to allow you to be disruptive.
Audrey MacLean
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For me, learning music and playing music and learning your instrument has incredible parallels for our day-to-day existence as human beings. All the ideas of discipline, and having a sense of yourself and translating that to music, that's all part of life's journey.
Arturo O'Farrill
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As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character, you're taking a liberty that you don't really have unless you're life is that incredibly close to the character.
Ashley Rickards
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Obsession with conventional ideas of 'success' can be harmful enough, but compound that stress with relationships, family, financial woes and health concerns, and you find yourself in a constant state of fight or flight. This causes people to be more reactionary, which further perpetuates the cycle of stress.
Ariel Garten
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Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception of Christ, but come at once - come as you are.
Archibald Alexander
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There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.
Ariel Dorfman
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It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you.
Antonia Thomas
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Reading a play, you view yourself as part of a whole. You see where the whole thing is going, and so you're willing to go to the very ugly place that your heart may go in order to serve the whole.
Annie Parisse
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You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.
Anne Parillaud
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The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.
Anthea Turner
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If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is.
Annabella Sciorra
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Your mind can't always tell the difference between pretend and reality if you pretend too long; or if you go too deep and really believe in what you're doing. If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is.
Annabella Sciorra
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If you act weird, people are going to treat you weird, but if you're just yourself, people respond to that.
AnnaSophia Robb
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Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.
Anne Campbell
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I've always wanted to be in comedy... growing up with Asian parents and not seeing yourself represented in media - it was always just a daydream.
Anna Akana
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You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for that song that's being traded back and forth among millions of people on the Internet, you have to think like a businessperson.
Ann Powers
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Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.
Ann Brashares
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To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.
Ann Brashares