#myself

But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#born #i #jerusalem #myself #regarded

It's great when people appreciate your work, but I don't know how seriously to take it. The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing, and that can even be extremely lucrative, but I love it either way. ↗

— Adrien Brody

#amazing thing #appreciate #doing #early #either

What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself. ↗

— Adrien Brody

#become #blur #caught #celebrity #easily

I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me. ↗

— Agnetha Faltskog

#around #asked #demanded #high #i

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it! ↗

— Agnetha Faltskog

#celebrity #enjoy #found #i #i can

I date, but the person I date most is myself, unfortunately. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#i #most #myself #person #unfortunately

I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin. ↗

— Olafur Eliasson

#berlin #cologne #first #germany #i

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#been #beginning #great #i #myself

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me. ↗

— Martin Buber

#because #book #close #door #face

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#artist #being #both #called #capable