![The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-only-advice-for-new-writers-and-poets-i-can-offer-is-to-be-yourself-not-th.jpg)
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As a young child, being different is isolating, and as a teenager it's humiliating. I wish I had been able to stand out with more confidence when I was a child, and especially when I was a teenager. I was different, but it wasn't always a conscious choice, and it often made me miserable. But I'm all grown up now, and so are you. Today, difference is your strength, your power, and your trademark. It's your signature. It can still be difficult to be different--sometimes even harder than it used to be. Even so, it's time to embrace being yourself. It's time to be authentic. Bethenny Frankel
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You can be plain and smart, or pretty and smart. You can even be plain and dumb! You just have to be yourself. Ashley Tisdale
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I look at an audience kind of like meeting my in-laws for the first time. You want to be yourself, but you still want to be somebody that they like. When I go on the stage each night, I try my best to outguess my audience. B. B. King
being-yourself style together
What is style? It is an effortless confidence in being yourself, it is a way of putting yourself together according to your mood and what you want to project. Personal style appears to come naturally for some, but for others it can take a while to find it! Diane von Furstenberg
being-yourself makeup important
What makes you attractive is being yourself, being natural, being unaware. Even though makeup is important, you should do it all, and then forget about it. You don't want to look like anyone else, any more than you want to be anyone else. You want to look like you. Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery - but it's flattering to someone else. Not to you.
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Being attractive for a few hours some evening is hardly worth being that unattractive all day (in hot rollers). Being yourself and being natural with a man is wonderful, but being downright unattractive with him is foolish.
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Building a wardrobe is like building a circle of friends your whole life.... Your own beauty is to be yourself, but of course we need tools and accessories.
being-yourself writing who-i-am
You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This is me, this is what I stand for, this is what you get when you read me. I'm doing the best I can - buy me or not - but this is who I am as a writer. David Morrell
being-yourself work knowing
You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself. Alan Alda
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life. William Rose Benet
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My advice is if you have to do music, then do it! There's no choice in your heart and your soul - unless you have that kind of great need, desire and determination, it's pretty tough out there! Vonda Shepard
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The picture that is emerging is of investors using the online services for their smaller trades, but seeking out expert research and advice when it comes to their larger involvements. Angela Knight
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I've always had the greatest respect for and listened to both my father and my mother. I've always tried to follow my parents' advice because these are people who want the best for me. Neymar
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My first advice on how not to grow old would be to choose you ancestors carefully. Bertrand Russell
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The advice we received from Ashley's specialist is that it will take time to derive full benefit from the surgery he underwent in December.
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The advice they give you in the field is, if you're an artist get established as an artist first and then once you are established they are more apt to look at your work. Never team up with a writer; they like to team up the artist with a manuscript.
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The advice that they've given me has definitely given me an advantage.
wants
What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.
wants
I'm not one of those guys who wants to die on a stage. Don Rickles
want united
We do not want to merely “see” beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it. C. S. Lewis
want able assuming
I can only assume that there’s only one thing more frustrating than not being able to find someone, and that’s not being found. I would want someone to find me, more than anything. Cecelia Ahern
want looks relevant
If you always want to look relevant, just be CGI-prepared. Carrie Brownstein
want littles fit
And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating. Carrie Fisher
want victim
I don't want to be a victim.
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Nobody wants to read about a good-looking happy person.
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Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much. Bill Bryson