Self Conscious Quotes - Page 12

• There's such a self-conscious balance that goes into television. Also, these are not people that think things through.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Thinking, Self, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I've taught writing to five, six, and seven year olds, it's not very different than talking to an adult writer. They're writers then, and when they get to be young teenagers they're not anymore. You might go and talk to them about writing, and they'll be very self-conscious or will have detached themselves from the group.

  Alice Mattison

  Teenager, Writing, Self

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've been on 'Days' since I was 16, and being surrounded by such thin, gorgeous actresses made me so insecure and self-conscious.

  Alison Sweeney

  Insecure, Self, Actresses

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• I have brothers, and that so-called boyish quality was something that I was deathly self-conscious about when I was younger.

  Kristen Stewart

  Brother, Self, Quality

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• I don't really like to play live. I don't like to be on stage. I feel very self-conscious.

  Peter Steele

  Self, Play, Conscious

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• I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.

  Robert Smith

  Self, Conscious

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• A desirable advertisement will be reasonable, but never dull ... original, but never self-conscious ... imaginative, but never misleading.

  Fairfax M. Cone

  Self, Dull, Advertising

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• I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.

  Richard Russo

  Writing, Self, Views

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• As we become more mature we will learn to master the interplay between the past and the present and not be so self-conscious of our rejection or acceptance of tradition. We will not make the mistake that both rigid modernists and conservatives make, of confusing the quality of form with the specific forms themselves.

  Alvin Lustig

  Mistake, Learning, Acceptance

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• Now that I'd experienced being a woman to a man I was in love with, I'd become self-conscious about being a woman to the world in general. Of course, being female is always indelicate and extreme, like operating heavy machinery. Every woman knows the feeling of being a stack of roving flesh. Sometimes all you've accomplished by the end of the day is to have maneuvered your body through space without grave incident.

  Hilary Thayer Hamann

  Men, Space, Self

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• Show me a novelist – or, indeed, a reader – who wasn’t a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive reading and I’ll… well, I’ll probably bang my shoulder on the door frame as I storm out. Many of the most unforgettable female fictional protagonists are gauche, self-doubting, plain and think too much.

  Charlotte Mendelson

  Reading, Thinking, Doors

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• Percy and Reyna occupied matching praeters' chairs on the dais, which made Percy self-conscious. It wasn't easy looking dignified wearing a bedsheet and a purple cape. "The camp is safe," Octavian continued. " I'll be the first to congragulate our heroes for bringing back the legion's eagle and so much Imperial gold! Truly we have been blessed with good fortune. But why do more? Why tempt fate?" "I'm glad you asked." Percy stood, taking the question as an opening. Octavian stammered, " I wasn't--" "--Part of the quest," Percy said. "Yes I know. And your'e wise to let me explain, since I was.

  Rick Riordan

  Wise, Blessed, Hero

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• I don't pay much attention to how the plays relate thematically to each other. I think that's very dangerous to do, because in the theater one is self-conscious enough without planning ahead or wondering about the thematic relation from one play to the next. One hopes that one is developing, and writing interestingly, and that's where it should end, I think.

  Edward Albee

  Writing, Thinking, Self

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.54, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical style that needed no justification because it came so naturally to them. As they grew musically the mere repetition of old rock and blues tunes became increasingly less satisfying.

  Jon Landau

  Rocks, Self, Musical

  Jon Landau (1972). “It's too late to stop now: a rock and roll journal”

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• Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust.

  Peter Gabriel

  Trust, Self, Dust

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• Life in the [London] suburb is richer at the lower levels. At these levels the people are not self-conscious at all, they are at liberty to be as eccentric as they please, they do not know that they are eccentric.

  Stevie Smith

  Self, People, Liberty

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• We talked about how easy it was to make the mistake of anthropomorphizing animals, and projecting our own feelings and perceptions on to them, where they were inappropriate and didn't fit. We simply had no idea what it was like being an extremely large lizard, and neither for that matter did the lizard, because it was not self-conscious about being an extremely large lizard, it just got on with the business of being one. To react with revulsion to its behavior was to make the mistake of applying criteria that are only appropriate to the business of being human.

  Douglas Adams

  Mistake, Animal, Self

  "Last Chance to See". Book by Douglas Adams, 1990.

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• When I moved to London in the 1990s, it had changed a great deal. Racism had become deeply uncool. But there has been a return of racism in the guise of "antiterrorism." People who look like myself are immediately suspect. I've become extremely self-conscious about going into crowded public places.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Self, Racism, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• When writers are self-conscious about themselves as writers they often keep a great distance from their characters, sounding as if they were writing encyclopedia entries instead of stories. Their hesitancy about physical and psychological intimacy can be a barrier to vital fiction. Conversely, a narration that makes readers hear the characters' heavy breathing and smell their emotional anguish diminishes distance. Readers feel so close to the characters that, for those magical moments, they become those characters.

  Jerome Stern

  Distance, Character, Writing

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• If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me.

  Marissa Mayer

  Self, Being A Woman, Conscious

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• I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.

  Elie Wiesel

  Self, Trying, Conscious

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• I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.

  Vincent Cassel

  Self, Style, Want

  "Vincent Cassel: 'You can't escape from what you are'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2012.

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• I used to be very self-conscious. I used to wish I was pretty. My cousin Georgia always taught me that if you smile, people will like you. Sometimes people will say something you don't like, and you get angry a bit, but you just smile. You let it go by, even if you really would like to choke 'em. By smiling, I think I've made more friends than if I was the other way.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Cousin, Thinking, Self

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• I was always a self-conscious person.

  Elia Kazan

  Self, Conscious, Persons

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• I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.

  Jonathan Ames

  Self, People, Perception

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