#myself

When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#business #cannes #costume #humiliate #i

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#convinced #despair #down #everything #hope

I didn't have much confidence in myself... never. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#i #much #myself #never

I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#beautiful #being #book #gogh #i

When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#aware #being #death #did #die

I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#consider #hair #i #just #myself

I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#down #guitar #guitar playing #guitar solos #hooks

Wearing this kind of costume is not something I fantasize about. It's not natural, it's not comfortable. I don't see myself as this. But it gives you dramatic license to do almost anything when you're dressed as a bug. ↗

— Joan Severance

#almost #anything #bug #comfortable #costume

I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself. ↗

— John Sexton

#been #before #being #compelled #dramatic

I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I'm still trying. ↗

— John Sexton

#approach #changed #could #decided #experience