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self-conscious
«Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And that's the terrible conflict. You have to be free to jump off into that volcano and you have to be pathologically self-conscious.»
Author: Alec Baldwin
(Actor)
| Keywords:
jump off, mix, pathologically, psychotic, psychotics, self-conscious, self-consciousness, volcano, volcanoes
«He left the self-conscious literary demimonde of New York for the quiet infidelities of New England.»
Author: John Heilpern
| About:
New York
| Keywords:
demimonde, infidelities, literary, New England, self-conscious, The Quiet
«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.»
Author: Michael Lesy
| About:
Family
| Keywords:
Edge of, flash, interval, picture frame, profane, profaning, revelation, self-conscious, snapshot, snapshots, the edge, The Flash
«Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.»
Author: Ray Bradbury
| About:
Creativity,
Thinking
| Keywords:
conscious, creativity, lousy, self-conscious, The Enemy
«People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.»
«Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.»
Author: Cyril Connolly
| Keywords:
adolescence, arrest, arrested development, class feeling, cowardly, deduce, deduced, disappointments, dominate, Eton, glories, ruling, ruling class, school system, self-conscious, sentimental, theory of, The Ruling Class, undergone
«It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them»
Author: Henry James
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
addict, addicted, addicts, American values, conscious, conspiracies, conspiracy, indisputable, self-conscious
«People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.»
Author: Stendhal
| About:
People
| Keywords:
dazzle, dazzled, dazzles, dazzling, extreme, intimacy, in evidence, politeness, proportions, regain, regaining, self-conscious, varnish, varnished
«Every race which has become self-conscious and idea-bound in the past has perished.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
bound, conscious, perished, race, self-conscious