Quotes About Self-awareness

I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one eye on the mirror to see how you're doing, you're not doing it as well as you can. Don't think about publishing, don't think about editors, don't think about marketplace.

The nice thing about publishing later in life is that you already know who you are. You don't have to hang out with the 'Paris Review' crowd to try to make yourself feel like a legitimate writer.

I knew very early what I wanted to do, and I considered myself lucky to know that's what I wanted, even in a place like Saint Lucia where there was no publishing house and no theatre.

I'm not really anything like Puck - I'm worse!

For me, when I came in, I was always worried about making the other guys happy and giving them the puck and almost giving them a little too much respect. It can take away from your game a little bit.

One could get locked in by the Pulitzer, thinking, 'This is who I am.' Doors open with it, but doors in your mind could close.

I'm my own worst critic, and if I don't pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won't be a happy girl.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.

You have to really understand that although certain memories or stories make you sad, you are not sad. Pull yourself out from that emotion and remember that.

When I start to get that few pounds, which I try to monitor, then I just pull back. So it's really just being conscious.

In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!

I don't have any rock star demeanor to me. I just can't pull that off.

My natural bent is to have an overabundance of energy, and motion-capture essentializes your every breath, your every move. Seeing yourself through that mask, you realize how far you can pull back and make the performance even more powerful.

I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere.

If you think you're higher than UFC, if you think you're better than all the other fighters, then maybe you should get pulled.

I don't think I have the pulling power of Jim Carrey.

I wouldn't define myself as the girl from 'Pulp Fiction.'

I try to take my emotional pulse more now, to recognize when I need to go scream and cry for 20 minutes and then come back to center. Allowing yourself that time, it's a gift.

Because, you know, I can't work a bicycle pump.

If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.

I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction.

I'm not stupid. After you just punch me, I'm not gonna be like, 'Alright, let me do that again.'

You just have to kind of roll with the punches and say, 'Think what you want to think. I know who I am.'

I tend not to read the papers or listen to what the pundits say about me.