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IWAN RHEON Respect goes a long way when you carry yourself a certain way and show manners when you first meet s... LAMAR ODOM There's a certain time that when somebody asks you a question, you answer them. I don't thin... REGGIE JACKSON When you give up yourself, that's when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that'... JOEL OSTEEN I think it's not really difficult to write about love. We've been saying the same thing over... BABYFACE You can't sit down and write 300 compositions in a three-month period and think that you're ... JOHN ZORN I've been grinding at music for over a decade now. Since I was 18, I decided that this is what I... NICK FRADIANI It's all about confidence and how you feel about yourself. There's no such thing as a perfec... HAYLEY HASSELHOFF That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences a... IDINA MENZEL With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and... 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HARRY STYLES Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I co... JAKE OWEN You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,'... IYANLA VANZANT As a writer, you write the book, you give it to your editor, it's copy edited, it's publishe... DAVID BERGEN It's easy to love yourself when you feel good enough, when you feel special enough, when you'... DEBBIE FORD I'm not like some other writers: I have no actual urgent need or desire to add to what's wri... TOM STOPPARD When it comes down to that moment, when it's me against you, you know in your head whether you w... J. J. WATT It's not easy to come somewhere new and have to find your place. You might feel someone doesn... FERNANDO TORRES It's like, you can know you want to live your life by being yourself, but how do you actually do... RACHEL KELLER To convince people to back your idea, you've got to sell it to yourself and know when it's t... 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MONICA JOHNSON It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It... DANNY BOYLE The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to b... KELSEA BALLERINI People can tell when you're happy with being you and when you're not. It's only cheesy b... HAYDEN PANETTIERE I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train mysel... CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I think you write the film that you want to see, and you try and do it honestly, and you can't c... EDGAR WRIGHT As an actress people always tease me like: if there's anything you can do to make yourself unatt... AMY ADAMS I'm convinced to do improv. All you have to do is listen to what people are saying to you, and t... RYAN STILES You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you sto... NAVEEN JAIN Sometimes there's a sense of closing yourself off on a shoot, and I try not to do that. Sometime... BRUCE WEBER I don't think you can cry if the script is rubbish. I have to feel it; it's as simple as tha... OLIVIA COLMAN You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself... DIANA KRALL I used to get very nervous before a concert. It's okay when you are in a band. You can kind of d... AGNES OBEL I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yoursel... SYLVESTER STALLONE You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you ... BRYAN CLAY If you can imagine what it's like to launch a business in the middle of a lawsuit - it's not... JOSEPH ABBOUD Be all that you can be. You can be great. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If you're an entrepreneur and you're starting a company, I think the first thing you do is y... DAVE GOLDBERG The only thing that's better in a group versus being by yourself is the companionship. You have ... 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