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“In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.”

Has Beens Self Light Sun Cutting Conscious Flow Sacred Edges Revelations Flash Self Conscious Intervals Profane Snapshots Picture Frames

Author:Adrienne Rich

“No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.”

Men Long Self Personality Singing Conscious Critical Indian Civilized Self Conscious Hymns Chanting Welsh Drumming

Book:The devils of Loudon

Source: The devils of Loudon

“Thus Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Douglas and Mr. Joyce partly spoil their books for women readers by their display of self-conscious virility; and Mr. Hemingway, but much less violently, follows suit.”

Book Self Reader Conscious Suits Display Spoil Self Conscious Joyce

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“I feel that America is like a child that grew up so strong and so fast and so tall that it became self-conscious about its size and started to stoop over so as not to offend anyone.”

Feels Children Self America Strong Grew Grew Up Conscious Size Tall Self Conscious Stoops

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“Everything about acting is a challenge. I'm self-conscious. You couldn't do anything to cause me to be more self-conscious than to stick a camera in my face and have 60 people standing behind it, waiting for me to perform.”

People Self Faces Causes Waiting Challenges Acting Behinds Conscious Standing Cameras Sticks Self Conscious

Author:Billy Campbell

“A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to widdle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious.”

Trying Self Actors Deals Battle Conscious Tricks Self Conscious

Author:Billy Campbell

“Hollywood wouldn't suit me. In L.A. it's all about work - studio people have their five minutes with you and they go, 'Oh mah Gahd, I love your movie.' You just feel very self-conscious there.”

People Feels Self Five Minutes Love You Conscious Hollywood Studios Suits Five Minutes Self Conscious

Author:Eva Green

“I do lots of other drugs but I smoke pot maybe 5-10 times a year now. I used to smoke it all the time, but I don't, and I haven't for awhile. That's just because it makes me - and I'm not saying this about everybody else - but it makes me kind of dumb and self-conscious.”

Years Kind Self Used Havens Drug Conscious Smoke Dumb Pot Self Conscious

Author:David Cross

“Under examination by the camera, a human body becomes for its inhabitant a field of betrayal more than a ground of communication, and the camera's further power is manifested as it documents the individual's self-conscious efforts to control the body each time it is conscious of the camera's attention to it.”

Humans Self Body Individual Effort Attention Fields Communication Conscious Cameras Betrayal Documents Human Body Examination Self Conscious

Book:Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life

Source: Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life

“People are self-conscious at first. But it gets better as we kind of dance with each other... it's like a date, in a way. We get more comfortable together. The best pictures are usually the last ones.”

People Way Firsts Kind Self Together Lasts Comfortable Conscious Get Better Self Conscious It Gets Better Best Picture

Author:Nicholas Nixon

“When you're in a two-shot together, you can't be the same as when you're both in singles. Try as you will, it cannot be the same as when you're in the shot together. It simply cannot be. It's physically impossible. You're behind the camera desperately wanting to help your colleague. When it's just you, on your own, it can be self-conscious in a way that you're not when we're just talking, you and I, and then all of a sudden it's me and then it's you. The two-shots were probably more natural.”

Way Trying Two Self Helping Together Natural Behinds Talking Impossible Conscious Shots Cameras Colleagues Self Conscious Singles

Author:Tom Courtenay

“I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.”

People Ifs Thinking Self Jobs Used Actors Can Do Knowing Fronts Speech Conscious Asking Cameras Nerves Funeral Self Conscious Eulogy

Author:Eddie Marsan

“Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . . . Artists have had to become self-conscious aestheticians: continually challenging their means, their materials and methods.”

Kind Mean Art Self Today Artist Challenges Consciousness Materials Conscious Method Instruments Sensibility Self Conscious Modifying

Author:Susan Sontag

“I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.”

Thinking Feels Self Consciousness Painting Conscious Self Conscious

Author:Julian Schnabel

“There's not a woman in the world who hasn't felt self-conscious about something! We as women all experience it but we never talk about it.”

World Self Felt Conscious Self Conscious

Author:Coco Rocha

“I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process.”

Writing Trying Self Process Conscious Writing Process Self Conscious

Author:St. Lucia

“A lot of the people I was writing with think a lot more about lyrics and a lot more about the details from the beginning. That kind of thinking made me a little self-conscious because I was suddenly having to judge what I was doing early on in the process.”

People Thinking Writing Kind Littles Made Self Process Judging Conscious Details Self Conscious

Author:St. Lucia

“Trying to be really dark and alienating just felt exhausting to me, so I started going back to the music that I grew up with, whether it was African music or pop music. It took me away from being overly self-conscious about what I was doing.”

Trying Self Felt Dark Grew Grew Up Conscious Pops Self Conscious Pop Music Exhausting African Music

Author:St. Lucia

“I don't feel like I'm self-conscious about what's next. I don't care. I know what it's like to be ignored, and I know what it's like not to be.”

Knows Feels Self Care Next Conscious Don't Care I Don't Care Ignored Self Conscious

Author:Matthew Specktor

“I don't want women to hold themselves back. I think there are too many women who are self-conscious about the way they look - the way they see themselves in the mirror.”

Thinking Way Want Looks Self Conscious Mirrors Self Conscious

Author:Ashley Graham

“I wanted to protect the songs. I wanted to make sure I could write freely and not be self-conscious about it.”

Writing Self Wanted Song Protect Conscious Self Conscious

Author:Alejandra Deheza

“I don't think theory adds to criticism. (Methodology does, for better or worse.) Theory's function is to make criticism self-conscious, maybe even a little sheepish, about its ex cathedra pronouncements.”

Thinking Littles Doe Self Theory Conscious Criticism Function Add Exes Self Conscious Methodology

Author:Paul Fry

“I'm always very self-conscious and assume the way faith or religion might come up in my plays will seem very harsh to people of faith, or who are currently practicing.”

People Way Self Play Seems Might Conscious Assuming Come Up Harsh Self Conscious

Author:Stephen Karam

“You become self-conscious and you begin to criticize yourself so much and watch yourself, and I don't want to ever do that. I want to be able to be free and explore. So I won't really watch it, but I would love to do, like, The Incredibles, or something like that. I would love to do a movie that's really, really good and animated. Inside Out, something like that. Something really smart.”

Want Self Able Watches Smart Conscious Incredibles Criticize Animated Self Conscious Really Smart

Author:Jackee Harry

“Usually when I put my focus on the pacing, the plot, the specific characterizations, - it's ironic - but then I actually increase my chances of writing something that moves people because I haven't become too self-conscious of the goal.”

People Writing Self Moving Goal Chance Focus Havens Conscious Increase Plot Ironic Self Conscious Characterization Pacing

Author:Christopher Rice

“You can't always just put color filters in 80s aerobic videos or take stuff from public-access and look at it in this very ironic, self-conscious way. That only takes you so far.”

Way Looks Self Stuff Color Conscious Access Video Ironic 80s Self Conscious Filters

Author:Alan Palomo

“I probably couldn't have the same experience listening to that song because I'm self-conscious about some of my singing parts.”

Self Song Listening Singing Conscious Self Conscious

Author:Babatunde Adebimpe

“From a self-conscious standpoint, it's hard to see myself on a screen in a way that isn't just me playing music or doing something silly.”

Way Self Hard Conscious Screens Silly Self Conscious Standpoint Playing Music

Author:Carrie Brownstein

“Well, you know, it's a younger person, and it was maybe an effort to be a little more sincere and adult about the lyrics occasionally, which is a good thing. It's nice that it's not too self-conscious like some of our lyrics could be.”

Knows Wells Littles Persons Self Effort Nice Conscious Adults Good Things Sincere Self Conscious

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“You know, the songs that are self-conscious or jerky, they are that way, but the other ones aren't, so that's a good thing. Some of the songs are Beck-jokey, but the others, they have heart in them.”

Knows Way Heart Self Song Conscious Good Things Self Conscious

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“If you know that someone is going to hear what you're doing, you're always going to be self-conscious about it. In a way that's good; it spurs you on.”

Ifs Knows Way Self Conscious Self Conscious Spurs Doing You

Author:Doug Martsch

“There are moments when, like all of us, you get a bit self-conscious and you'd rather not be living any of your day in public. Those are the awkward times, but you've got to have fun with it.”

Self Moments Fun Bits Conscious Having Fun Awkward Self Conscious

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“We were in front of a live audience and I would be acting with the man who was playing my lover, and we used those words, and the audience would titter and laugh, and make me uncomfortable doing the scenes. ... I wanted to sort of stop and yell at them, "What's so funny? What's the matter with you people? Grow up!" It made me very self-conscious at times.”

People Men Made Self Matter Would Be Wanted Used Grows Acting Audience Laughing Growing Up Fronts He Man Lovers Scene Conscious Uncomfortable Self Conscious My Lover

Author:Billy Crystal

“I'd done two years on a soap opera where I was shooting things every day and they gave me a hard time about that, which I think is the wrong way to teach a young actor. They just made me really, really self-conscious about everything I did, which is the opposite of what you need to be when you're filming.”

Thinking Way Needs Years Made Two Self Hard Done Young Actors Teach Conscious Opposites Shooting Hard Times Two Years Opera Soap Self Conscious Wrong Way Soap Operas Young Actors

Author:Iwan Rheon

“I think I was like [a game of] skittles, knocked apart by this wooden ball, and there's a strength to that: you're not too self-conscious about what you're doing, so you're not too worried about it.”

Thinking Self Games Conscious Balls Worried Self Conscious Skittles

Author:David Toop

“My sport has transformed my body to be powerful for a specific task over years of training and competition. The more tuned for competition I am, the less "feminine" I look, and it has made me feel powerful on the track but self-conscious in the sack. That transformed for me as I let go of feminine ideals of all kinds, in work, parenting, etc.”

Feels Years Looks Kind Made Self Body Sports Powerful Letting Go Training Conscious Ideals Tasks Competition Track All Kinds Etc Feminine Transformed Self Conscious

Author:Lauren Fleshman

“I am somebody who usually writes out the rough draft in longhand. Then I type it into the computer, and that is where I do my editing. I find that if I write it on the computer, I go too quick. So I like getting that first draft out and then typing it in; you are less self-conscious about it.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Self Type Computer Conscious Rough Editing Self Conscious Typing Rough Drafts

Author:Barack Obama

“The New Testament writers I think conceive of their inspired Scripture writings as flushing out, bringing to articulation, expounding and so on the climactic revelation in the son, but this in self-conscious fulfillment of the promises and covenants that were already made to God's chosen people in Old Testament times.”

“I really love hanging out on the set, and I love the life, and all of that. But I don't think I could stick with this profession if it weren't for those 15 minutes a day when I get to act. That's the part I love. For some strange reason, it's the time that I'm the least self-conscious in my whole life.”

Ifs Thinking Self Reason Whole Minutes Strange Conscious Sticks Profession Whole Life Hanging Out Self Conscious

Author:William H. Macy

“The roughest part is showing up. Once you throw yourself into the scene, it's just great fun to let it all go and not be self-conscious, and stop questioning whether you're sufficient.”

Self Fun Scene Conscious Sufficient Questioning Self Conscious Showing Up

Author:William H. Macy

“Before M2, I really felt self-conscious about some of my choices, and I was slotted into a category. At Rolling Stone, I was the alternative chick, and that was just the way it was. That did break me open a little bit, and that was maybe its legacy. And it's a nice one.”

Way Littles Self Choices Felt Bits Break Nice Little Bit Conscious Stones Alternatives Legacy Categories Rolling Self Conscious Chicks Rolling Stones

Author:Jancee Dunn

“I don't pay much attention to how the plays relate thematically to each other. I think that's very dangerous to do, because in the theater one is self-conscious enough without planning ahead or wondering about the thematic relation from one play to the next. One hopes that one is developing, and writing interestingly, and that's where it should end, I think.”

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being true kitsch, which always strives to please.”

May Has Beens Self Please Taste Conscious Strive Being True Strife Self Conscious Grotesque Kitsch Bad Taste

Author:Denis Dutton

“I didn't want to whisper and giggle about [puberty] anymore. I felt incredibly self-conscious. I felt like I was losing myself, and I was losing who I was. And that really scared me.”

Want Self Felt Losing Conscious Scared Self Conscious Puberty Giggle Losing Myself

Author:Mara Wilson

“Political correctness is a bit like a granny, a maiden aunt arriving at a party when everyone's having a good time. And she comes in, they all start sort of buttoning up and becoming self-conscious and behaving properly and then when she leaves, you can have fun again.”

Self Political Fun Bits Party Becoming Conscious Having Fun Good Times Aunt Having A Good Time Self Conscious Political Correctness Correctness Arriving Maidens Granny

Author:John Cleese

“I'm working on a poetry collection for Papaveria Press . It fills me with trepidation - poetry is something I'm much more self-conscious about than prose.”

Self Conscious Presses Prose Collections Poetry Is Self Conscious Trepidation

Author:Theodora Goss

“There's something very self-conscious about a writer who's addressing his reader. Don't do that.”

Self Reader Conscious Self Conscious

Author:Ewan McGregor

“I am deebly self-conscious, and bad.”

Self Conscious Self Conscious

Author:Gene Weingarten

“There's such a self-conscious balance that goes into television. Also, these are not people that think things through.”

People Thinking Self Television Balance Conscious Self Conscious

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“There's something a lot more self-conscious feeling when there's cameras coming in for close-ups. It makes you very aware.”

Self Feelings Conscious Cameras Self Conscious

Author:Tig Notaro

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