Navel Gazing Quotes

• In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants.

  Rainn Wilson

  Rocks, Self, Rock And Roll

  "Rainn Wilson Interview - THE ROCKER" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 19, 2008.

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• Most books that come out with a comedy label seem to be, Eric [Wareheim] and I could have written, "This is our story, and this is who we are," and sort of this navel-gazing, narcissistic approach to comedy we're seeing these days.

  Tim Heidecker

  Book, Eric, Gazing

  "Tim and Eric Are Bringing Down Scientology With Jokes". Interview with Jill Krasny, www.esquire.com. July 8, 2015.

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• When I was in college I started writing prose, because a very smart professor asked me what I like to read and I said, "Novels," and she said, "You should be writing them then." Memoir never even occurred to me. I think I was afraid of nonfiction and I was afraid of navel-gazing, and of being seen.

  Melissa Febos

  Smart, Writing, College

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Believing that navel-gazing in and of itself can transform itself into something that means something for society. I mean, we are communicative creatures. We desire to sort of understand each other's experiences and points of view. Storytelling is what painting, literature, filmmaking is all about.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Believe, Mean, Views

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I'm not going to let Defense Distributed go into a pro-social NGO territory. "We should really have more women on the board." That's navel-gazing and destructive ultimately. You have to have a kind of white-hot core identity. So far, I'm in touch with it.

  Cody Wilson

  White, Identity, Hot

  Source: motherboard.vice.com

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