#ourself

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#fully #grasp #imagery #necessarily #resonant

You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#just #opinion #own #represent #someone

It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#characters #create #why #you #yourself

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy? ↗

— George Orwell

#fair #gives #hearing #his #intelligent

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself. ↗

— George Orwell

#fight #necessary #often #survive #to survive

I've learned to be true to yourself, stick to the big arguments, don't get distracted by the everyday kerfuffle that is in the nature of any democratic system. ↗

— George Osborne

#be true #big #democratic #democratic system #distracted

Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work. ↗

— Miranda Otto

#career #fight #freelance #having #never

Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you're pregnant. I've got a film. It'll be nice for my daughter, too, to look at one day. She was in it. ↗

— Miranda Otto

#daughter #day #everyone #film #get

It could be a stupid thing to say, but people should realize that it is easy to get concerned about yourself and to lose contact. ↗

— Miranda Otto

#concerned #contact #could #easy #get

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

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