Self Conscious Quotes - Page 10

• I wanted to protect the songs. I wanted to make sure I could write freely and not be self-conscious about it.

  Alejandra Deheza

  Song, Writing, Self

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Before M2, I really felt self-conscious about some of my choices, and I was slotted into a category. At Rolling Stone, I was the alternative chick, and that was just the way it was. That did break me open a little bit, and that was maybe its legacy. And it's a nice one.

  Jancee Dunn

  Nice, Self, Choices

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Trying to be really dark and alienating just felt exhausting to me, so I started going back to the music that I grew up with, whether it was African music or pop music. It took me away from being overly self-conscious about what I was doing.

  St. Lucia

  Dark, Self, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Usually when I put my focus on the pacing, the plot, the specific characterizations, - it's ironic - but then I actually increase my chances of writing something that moves people because I haven't become too self-conscious of the goal.

  Christopher Rice

  Moving, Writing, Self

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• You can't always just put color filters in 80s aerobic videos or take stuff from public-access and look at it in this very ironic, self-conscious way. That only takes you so far.

  Alan Palomo

  Color, Self, Ironic

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I probably couldn't have the same experience listening to that song because I'm self-conscious about some of my singing parts.

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  Song, Self, Listening

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• From a self-conscious standpoint, it's hard to see myself on a screen in a way that isn't just me playing music or doing something silly.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Silly, Self, Playing Music

  "Carrie Brownstein Talks Sleater-Kinney, Acting, Writing, and More". Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. March 25, 2010.

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• I enjoy doing scenes where I don't wear make-up and I can be raw. I like that. I feel like it's easier to act. When I have to have make-up on, I feel like I'm expected to look a certain way, and then it's harder to act because I'm more self-conscious.

  Ivana Milicevic

  Self, Looks, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• The other day, I saw a blog post where a woman wrote about why she was unfollowing me and that made me feel incredibly self-conscious and embarrassed about my tweets. I also feel more exposed now that I've become a more visible writer but then I try to get over all that and just use Twitter the way I want.

  Roxane Gay

  Self, Trying, Use

  "What Would Twitter Do?" with Sheila Heti, believermagblog.wordpress.com. August 14, 2014.

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• You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know it they just don't acknowledge it. It's not something they really identify with. They're just plain old Americans, plain vanilla. I don't think they are a self-conscious voting bloc.

  John Shelton Reed

  Thinking, Self, Ethnicity

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• You wouldn't consider all the bipeds you pass on the street human beings simply because they walk upright and carry their young in their bellies nine months! It is obvious how many of them are fish or sheep, worms or angels, how many are ants, how many are bees!

  Hermann Hesse

  Angel, Sheep, Nine

  "Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse".

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• I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.

  Alan Bradley

  Self, Two, Laughing

  Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.488, Delacorte Press

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• Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Real, Thinking, Self

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo (1989). “The Supramental Manifestation, and Other Writings”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And as a philosophical tract, it evinces a fiercely nihilistic, anti-humanistic vision built upon gross generalizations and ridiculously phony logic. It is a deeply repugnant read.

  Michiko Kakutani

  Philosophical, Writing, Self

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• I'm a very self-conscious person, I think we all are, but I'm especially not very comfortable in my body. I always feel really weird and awkward on the street or on the stage. It has nothing to do with circumstances, it's just an ongoing psychological state, like white noise.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Thinking, Self, White

  "Sufjan Stevens: 'I've always been insecure about what I do'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2011.

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• However, to modify a habit, you must decide to change it. You must consiously accept the hard work of identifying the cues and rewards that drive the habits' routines, and find alternatives. You must know you have control and be self-conscious enough to use it -- and every chapter in this book is devoted to illustrating a different aspect of why that control is real.

  Charles Duhigg

  Real, Book, Hard Work

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• I never worry about looking cool in front of a guy. I have never been a self-conscious girl. Goofing around is part of being comfortable with yourself. I've always been good at meeting new people. I just say, 'Hi, how you doing?' and soon we'll end up laughing about something.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Girl, Self, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Historians constantly rewrite history, reinterpreting (reorganizing) the records of the past. So, too, when the brain's coherent responses become part of a memory, they are organized anew as part of the structure of consciousness. What makes them memories is that they become part of that structure and thus form part of the sense of self; my sense of self derives from a certainty that my experiences refer back to me, the individual who is having them. Hence the sense of the past, of history, of memory, is in part the creation of the self.

  Israel Rosenfield

  Memories, Past, Self

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• There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.

  Peter Weir

  Self, Ideas, Choices

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• I was uncomfortable because I had never been that nude before. I had never shown my legs, and never shown quite that much skin. I always played frigid doctors or the plain sisters who got the guy at the end. What did I know from ladies in caves who ate only meat? And when the outfit came in, I never thought of myself that way. I mean, I always thought of myself as having my father's chest. I was very self-conscious.

  Mariette Hartley

  Father, Mean, Doctors

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• I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it.

  Pierre Loti

  Past, June, Self

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• When I was younger, I didn't even know how to walk. I was so self-conscious.

  Lil B

  Self, Conscious, Walks

  "Based Scripture: The Full Transcript of Lil B’s Lecture at NYU" by Duncan Cooper, www.thefader.com. April 12, 2012.

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• There in the midst of German life is an alien and isolated race of men. Loud and self-conscious in their dress, hot-blooded and restless in their manner. An Asiatic horde on the sandy plains of Prussia. Forming among themselves a close corporation, rigorously shut off from the rest of the world.

  Walther Rathenau

  Men, Race, Self

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• Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments.

  Beatrice Warde

  Art, Humility, Self

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• Quite possibly, the purpose of the universe is to provide a congenial home for self-conscious creatures who can ask profound questions and who can probe the nature of the universe itself.

  Owen Gingerich

  Home, Self, Profound

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