Quotes by Myself Growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself. I felt with The Beatles legacy that there was pressure on me to do music, and while I always loved music and it was always around me at home, I thought about doing other things. James McCartney myselfmemusichome I was heavily into Nirvana and I still am, but when I was 23 I got disillusioned by music. Then I just focused more on myself and gave up music for a while. James McCartney moremyselffocusedmusic I've always been a family man and count myself as one of those who are lucky to have the comfort of a family. James Nesbitt myselfmanfamilylucky I'm an underdog by nature, and I like to be fighting. I don't make music for myself. I make music to fight. James Murphy fightmyselfmusicnature I started playing in my first band when I was 12. I like to date myself by saying I was in a New Age band when it wasn't ironic; it was actually called new wave because it was new. James Murphy sayingnewmyselfage I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal government - the Kennedy administration at that time - into a position where they would have to use the United States military force to enforce my rights as a citizen. James Meredith daymyselftimewar 'Blacks were too scared to do anything, but they came out to greet James Meredith': That would have been the story in the evening news if I hadn't gotten myself shot. I got shot, and that allowed the movement protest thing to take over then and do their thing. James Meredith storymyselfeveningnews For the longest time, I didn't even want to admit I was serious about music. Before the Shins, I would tell myself, 'Oh, I'm going to figure something out someday.' I had this romantic vision of being this old dude maybe making guitars or something. James Mercer myselfmusictimeromantic I don't like the idea of a singer-songwriter record. I don't picture myself that way, and it's not my favorite sort of look, I guess. It's really just an aesthetic thing. James Mercer picturemyselflookaesthetic Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself. James Purefoy feelwheremyselfhome The only thing that's ever made sense to me has been sitting in the house by myself making music. James Vincent McMorrow myselfmemusicsitting I like working by myself. James Vincent McMorrow workingmyselflike If someone asks me to play myself, I've got problems. There's more pain involved. Jamey Sheridan problemsmyselfmepain I don't mean it to sound egomaniacal, but in a way, for me, it was very useful to imagine that I was the only one who was taking pen in hand. I'd always been told that it was impossible to be published, so I was writing only for myself. Jane Hamilton myselfmeimpossibleway I think of myself as a storyteller. Jane Lindskold i-thinkmyselfthinkstoryteller I started seriously applying myself to writing fiction immediately after I finished graduate school. By 'seriously,' I mean that, instead of noodling along on a story, finishing it or not as the mood struck me, I set out to complete what I started, to polish it to the best of my ability, and to send out the finished story. Jane Lindskold bestmyselfmeschool I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it. Jane Welsh Carlyle myselfmefearpeople The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to be one moment unoccupied. Jane Welsh Carlyle myselfmemomentsupport Indeed, I should be very stupid or very thankless if I did not congratulate myself every hour of the day on the lot which it has pleased Providence to assign me. My Husband is so kind! So, in all respects, after my own heart! Jane Welsh Carlyle daymyselfmeheart I know plenty people, and I've done it myself, where you lock yourself inside for four days and you a watch a whole series. It's like watching a never-ending movie. It's great not to have to wait for the next season or the next week. Jane Levy yourselfmyselfyoupeople«6162636465666768697071»
