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• I never thought of myself as a writer.

  David E. Kelley

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• When I sat down to write I just felt like a geek writing about myself. And then it dawned on me, just because of the way I am, I can’t stop talking, and part of the problem is that anything that gets said reminds me of something that happened to me one time, and invariably I cut people off and talk about myself.

   

  Paula Poundstone

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  Tags in People, Myself, Writers And Writing, Talking

• President Obama could keep a big map with push pins on it to keep track of how many countries hate us, and when we get down to only half, let’s have a ball. I’ll blow up the balloons myself.

  Paula Poundstone

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• I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

  Bil Keane

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• When I’m writing, I’m trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that’s how life is lived, you know?

  Charlie Kaufman

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  Tags in Myself, Emotional, Trying

• The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That’s all I’ve got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.

  Charlie Kaufman

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• I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.

  Charlie Kaufman

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  Tags in Myself, Human, Real

• I never direct myself, because I don’t like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction.

  Ron Perlman

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  Tags in Myself, Direction

• I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That’s why I wasn’t a great dancer – I couldn’t articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can’t explain it.

  Rosie Perez

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• I don’t call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican.

  Rosie Perez

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• Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

  Sally Pearson

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  Tags in Myself, Winning

• Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

  Sally Pearson

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  Tags in Myself, Parents

• I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever.

  Elton John

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  Tags in Myself, Handsome

• I don’t have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

  Elton John

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  Tags in Myself, Musician

• Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

  Chuck Palahniuk

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• Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.

  Chuck Palahniuk

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• I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

  Chuck Palahniuk

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  Tags in Myself, Fact, Breathing

• More and more, it feels like I’m doing a really bad impersonation of myself.

  Chuck Palahniuk

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  Tags in Myself, Really

• I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.

  Edward Norton

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• I don’t flatter myself – I’m not a scientist, I’m not a conservation expert.

  Edward Norton

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