#elf

The self is hateful. ↗

A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right. ↗

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#also #always #beings #close #common

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. ↗

— Walter Pater

#end #fruit #itself

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#been #cell #concerns #england #general

It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress, but it's all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from. ↗

— Sarah Polley

#actress #become #escape #famous #i

Plus, doing a zombie movie is quite liberating. It's fun not to take myself seriously all the time. ↗

— Sarah Polley

#fun #liberating #movie #myself #plus

I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#girl #i #i think #myself #think

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed. ↗

— Channing Pollock

#conceit #decent #desire #earn #far

I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway. ↗