#yours

When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry. ↗

— William Collins

#dentistry #do-it-yourself #go #her #his

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#avoid #being #close #count #nothing

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#ever #find #i #know #like

Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up. ↗

— Rachel Corrie

#believe in yourself #dreams #follow #follow your dreams #give

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#children #die #five #give #hope

I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?' ↗

— Kevin Costner

#call #celebrity #club #did #fame

When you see yourself on video, you and your friends spending time on vacation, and they take a video, and then you see it, it's really disturbing. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#friends #really #see #spending #spending time

You have to find the place where you abandon everything of yourself. Then you can let something else happen. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#else #everything #find #happen #place

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#death #dies #feel #feeling #genuine

But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#anyway #budget #create #divest #enforced