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• Sometime, when you start thinking too much what an audience is going to think, when you're too self-conscious about it, you make mistakes.

  Christopher Nolan

  Mistake, Thinking, Self

  Christopher Nolan, Jonah Nolan (2010). “Inception: The Shooting Script”, p.14, Insight Editions

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• I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about it. I was a bit self-conscious about writing lyrics too.

  Jerry Harrison

  Writing, Thinking, Self

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• Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material moderation, it can be practiced in cities and suburbs, townhouses and condominiums. It requires neither a log cabin nor a hairshirt but a deliberate ordering of priorities so as to distinguish between the necessary and superfluous, useful and wasteful, beautiful and vulgar.

  David Shi

  Beautiful, Self, Essence

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• Some writing is a really nice solitary process, in a way, because you can be a little self-conscious around other people. If it's just you, and you're at your favorite piano, or whatever instrument, and you feel comfortable, then somehow, I always feel like it's opening a door and letting whatever is to pass through pass.

  Marketa Irglova

  Nice, Writing, Doors

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• Glamour is not self-conscious; it’s not trying really hard. It’s just expressing your own truth. I think that’s what the essence of glamour really is—expressing your uniqueness.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Thinking, Self, Essence

  Kerry Diamond, Kevyn Aucoin (2004). “Kevyn Aucoin a Beautiful Life: The Success, Struggles, and Beauty Secrets of a Legendary Makeup Artist”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.

  China Mieville

  Real, Thinking, Self

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• One of the biggest things I've done is learn how to love myself, flaws and all. Even the things I don't like about myself, I accept. People have made fun of me and made me self-conscious about talking so softly, for example, but I accept that as who I am and I'm not changing it for anybody. I'm at peace with who I am now, and once you've achieved that, all the other stuff disappears.

  Ricky Williams

  Fun, Self, Who I Am

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• I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was?

  Patty Duke

  Book, Thinking, Self

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• People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.

  Robert Redford

  Self, People, Miracle

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• I did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly self-conscious. I naturally gravitated towards my elders because I didn't know how to speak or be present with my peers.

  Heather Matarazzo

  Self, Feelings, Peers

  "Heather Matarazzo: ‘Welcome to the Dollhouse’ changed my life". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. March 22, 2011.

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• I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious.

  Aidan Gillen

  Self, Photograph, Conscious

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And thats the terrible conflict. You have to be free to jump off into that volcano and you have to be pathologically self-conscious.

  Alec Baldwin

  Volcanoes, Self, Acting

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• To watch an American on a beach, or crowding into a subway, or buying a theatre ticket, or sitting at home with his radio on, tells you something about one aspect of the American character: the capacity to withstand a great deal of outside interference, so to speak; a willing acceptance of frenzy which, though it's never self-conscious, amounts to a willingness to let other people have and assert their own lively, and even offensive, character. They are a tough race in this.

  Alistair Cooke

  Beach, Character, Home

  "Letter from America, 1946-2004".

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• I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I can't deny it. And it's very funny, too. Sometimes you're shy; you go somewhere and everyone's looking at you, so you feel a little self-conscious.

  Jon Lovitz

  Baseball, Cheer, Fun

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Like most girls I'm always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I'm weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.

  Janis Joplin

  Beautiful, Girl, Men

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• I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis.

  Emily Procter

  Taken, Self, Blonde

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• For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious.

  Shannen Doherty

  Self, Shopping, House

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• I’m just trying to not be in stupid gossip magazines, basically, and I think the best way to do it is never be photographed ever. As I get older, I just get more and more and more self-conscious about getting photographed. I don’t know why. I’ve done it too many times and now I feel like everyone can see through me.

  Robert Pattinson

  Stupid, Thinking, Self

  "Robert Pattinson trying to ‘never be photographed ever’". Interview with Associated Press, pagesix.com. May 20, 2014.

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• Ripe for romance? Is that not only the self-conscious and sensitive young man's way of saying he was heavy with passion? Is not, perhaps, romance only the fiction by means of which the tender-minded negotiate their lust?

  Trevanian

  Passion, Mean, Men

  Trevanian (2005). “The Summer of Katya: A Novel”, p.9, Crown

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• I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to get the subconscious to do the work for you, and get out of the way. The best symbolism is always unsuspected and natural. During a lifetime, one saves up information which collects itself around centers in the mind; these automatically become symbols on a subliminal level and need only be summoned in the heat of writing.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Exercise, Self

  "Famous Novelists on Symbolism in Their Work and Whether It Was Intentional". mentalfloss.com. June 15, 2012.

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• Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.

  Eric Bogosian

  Real, Self, Eric

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• I don't like to be my own audience, I find that being my own audience, being in the audience, makes me self-conscious, basically. So I tune in sometimes, with the sound off, to check it out and I back up to it. In the future I will look at it when some time has passed.

  Madeline Kahn

  Self, Sound, Tunes

  Interview with Charlie Rose, December 16, 1996.

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• You don't feel as self-conscious if your clothes fit.

  Rachael Ray

  Self, Clothes, Fit

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• I was a lot more critical of my body when it was probably pretty awesome. Why did I not ever wear jean shorts? That's so crazy. I was so skinny. I didn't have any cellulite what was I thinking? I was more willing to wear short skirts after I had my kids. I never wore them before. Ever. I was so self-conscious. Now I'm a lot more confident in my skin - because who cares? At the end of the day, it's so much time spent on something that really doesn't matter that much.

  Jessica Alba

  Crazy, Kids, Thinking

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• I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.

  Ellen Goodman

  Thinking, Self, Conscious

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