Quotes About Introspection

Le vent revint en triple furie, et une bonne fois pour toutes éteignit les lanternes. Ils restèrent assis en compagnie de tant d'autres comme eux dans d'autres baraquements, leurs yeux s'éreintant contre les murs rudimentaires, leur âme cherchant à savoir si Son intention était de mesurer leur piètre puissance à l'aune de la Sienne. Tous semblaient fixer l'obscur, mais leurs yeux dardaient sur Dieu.

The theory behind our [Negro] tactics: The white man is always trying to know into somebody else's business. All right, I'll set something outside the door of my mind for him to play with and handle. He can read my writing but he sho' can't read my mind. I'll put this play to in his hand, and he will seize it and go away. Then I'll say my say and sing my song.

It gave me something to feel about.

She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was.

I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'

I was up above it. Now, I'm down in it.

Had I considered over the course of time the moments where maybe I was the first woman to do this or that, it would have scared the absolute daylights out of me.

It takes me a while to absorb things.

It was hard for me to find my voice because I was, for so long, absorbed in my own world.

I was not an Abstract Expressionist. Nor was I an Irascible.

I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.

I never abused anybody but myself.

It's hard to accept the truth, especially about yourself.

I wish I could have gone back and told myself what I know now: Accepting yourself is the way to go.

Sometimes I ask myself if I'm accepting too many films.

I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.

At heart, I'm not an actor, I'm an accident.

I look back - I think I am an accidental actor.

I appreciate some of the attention and the accolades, but I typically shy away from it.

I really don't look at my accomplishments. I really don't think about myself much.

I must give an account for what I've done.

I would be the worst person on earth to be called to write an account of someone else's life.

I take accountability for my actions.