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216 Self Conscious quotes by 196 unique authors

Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person. — Andy Murray
Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved. — Emile M. Cioran
If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in… — Florence Welch
If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me. — Marissa Mayer
Fundamentalism has stood aloof from the liberal in self-conscious superiority and has on its own part fallen into error, the error of textualism, which is… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity. — Madeleine L'Engle
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… — Cyril Connolly
I used to be very self-conscious. I used to wish I was pretty. My cousin Georgia always taught me that if you smile, people will… — Ella Fitzgerald
To say a thing simply: I am my history, but the story of my life is always guarded, self-conscious. It is finally the only story… — Maureen Howard
I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff. — Matthew Lewis
I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious. — Mary-Louise Parker
I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green… — Eddie Redmayne
Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people. They are no… — Raymond Chandler
I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness… — China Mieville
Life in the [London] suburb is richer at the lower levels. At these levels the people are not self-conscious at all, they are at liberty… — Stevie Smith
I was always a self-conscious person. — Elia Kazan
I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do. — Vincent Cassel
I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me. — Jonathan Ames
To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious. — Mark Batterson
A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into… — Billy Campbell
I never studied directing and I never really thought about doing it, and then I just found myself in that situation and tried it. I… — Sofia Coppola
When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious,… — Anita Desai
I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze… — Ben Fountain
I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person. — Terry Gross
As always, with acting, you can't be too self-conscious. You shouldn't care about what people are thinking about you at the time because they're not… — Freddie Highmore

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