Top 38 Repeating Myself Quotes
#2. Why do I write? Because I like telling stories and I don't like repeating myself (insert chuckle here).
Najeev Raj Nadarajah
#3. Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#4. I'm always repeating myself. You never just do a scene once, you do it an insane amount of times.
Michiel Huisman
#5. I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the best time. I think 'Blank Project' is about carrying on. Its that thing where you're making something because you have to, but you don't know how or why.
Neneh Cherry
#6. I just reached the point where I realised, I need to stop repeating myself if I'm ever actually going to enjoy the music I'm creating.
Zach Condon
#7. I never want to repeat myself. I can't imagine anything else as upsetting as realizing I'm redoing something I did before. For some reason, when it comes to film, I'm very good at not repeating myself. Even though in the rest of my life, I'm constantly repeating my mistakes.
Doug Liman
#8. I enjoyed 'The OC' immensely but I want to expand my horizons more before repeating myself.
Willa Holland
#9. When I feel I'm repeating myself, I'll probably pack it in.
Philip Kerr
#10. While I still do a lot of horror, it doesn't feel to me like I'm repeating myself. I like to stay interested. I'm kind of turning into one of those elder statesmen, like a Vincent Price or a Donald Pleasence. I like to think of myself alongside those guys.
Robert Englund
#11. The Internet makes the writer work harder - I have to say things here I've never said before, or else be caught out in repeating myself.
Joshua Cohen
#12. There is nothing wrong with a writer who has a distinct style in book after book, but I am not interested in repeating myself.
Jay Neugeboren
#13. It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. And I think it's important to try to do different things - change what I write about, and also the way I write. Otherwise, I'd just be repeating myself, which wouldn't be good for me or fair to my readers.
William T. Vollmann
#14. Every book I think will be my last one because after finishing I have the sense that I've said all I have to say, but I always seem to find a new way of repeating myself.
Gustavo Perez Firmat
#15. I was concerned about doing a sequel and repeating myself. That was before I read the script.
JoBeth Williams
#16. I found I was repeating myself. It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style.
Dashiell Hammett
#17. I just don't feel good if I'm repeating myself.
Tao Lin
#18. I hate the idea of repeating myself. I need new perspectives and challenges for each project, and I'm very happy that many people are able to follow me without any problem.
Christian Fennesz
#19. I really feel that if I did another [Narnia] film I'd just be repeating myself and I don't really want to do that as an actor.
Skandar Keynes
#20. What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.
Jonathan Lethem
#21. There are things that I would avoid, so I have the choice to say no, when I feel I'm repeating myself too much. But then there could be a reason to do that with a good director. So I think actors have to have a loose philosophy.
Toby Jones
#22. Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest job in the world.
Jonathan Kellerman
#23. I hated repeating myself. The last films I've done - not once did I ever have the feeling that I was dialing it in.
Matthew McConaughey
#24. I think my biggest problem, though, at least in drafts, is not repeating myself. After eight books I get worried that a character or piece of dialog might be too much like something I've already done. So it's a challenge to keep it fresh.
Sarah Dessen
#27. The Cheers writers were the finest in television. But I felt like I was repeating myself; it bothered me a little bit. And I was getting movie offers, which made people think, "Oh, she's so snooty. She thinks she's going to do movies."
Shelley Long
#28. My biggest fear is mindlessly and stupidly repeating myself.
John Lydon
#29. I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.
Michel Faber
#30. Certainly not every reader has liked every one of my books, but I think that's a good thing because it means I'm not repeating myself.
Julia Quinn
#31. I'm not worried about repeating myself - I'm more worried that I'd just get bored.
Chaz Bundick
#32. That's why I love improvisational theater so much - you do it [scene] once and then it's done. You don't get bogged down with a lot of preplanning and repetition. If I do something and it gets a laugh, I don't want to do it again. Why bother? I'm just repeating myself. It's boring.
Amy Sedaris
#33. I haven't done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you're most recently famed for, so I'm careful of not repeating myself.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#34. Any good album title has multiple meanings, and I like choosing titles where I find myself repeating it, almost like a mantra.
DJ Shadow
#35. I'm gonna reveal something to you that's going to come as a shock: If you're a stupid young man, you're usually a stupid old man. Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.
William Shatner
#36. If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to be crazy. Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.
Paulo Coelho
#37. Repeating the name of the Beloved
I have become the Beloved myself.
Whom shall I call the Beloved now?
Bulleh Shah
#38. You can't go back. What's done is done. Unrequited love is never easy. Time heals all wounds. I kept repeating such cliches to myself, hoping that they, like medicine, would take away the sting.
They didn't.
Alice J. Wisler
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