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Follow your instincts and do not let other people's opinion of you become your opinion of yourself.
If you remix, people want to tap into your sound. If you keep that to yourself, it makes the sound more special.
If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?
Having to stake out your identity and have people question whether or not you're being yourself was a tension that I could relate to.
Half of acting is you're very intimidated, overcoming your fears, letting yourself be vulnerable in front of people and that sort of stuff.
Telling people more about yourself and distinguishing yourself from your opponent - they're both essential parts of communicating with voters.
There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.
I'm a little harsh. When people say, 'I have writers block. What do you suggest?' I say, 'If you can't write, don't write. No one needs your writing. Don't torture yourself.'
Don't write your books for people who won't like them. Give yourself wholly to the kind of book you want to write, and don't try to please readers who like something different.
I don't think any of us are careful enough about emails. When you are writing an email, you should imagine yourself in an auditorium speaking to 5,000 people, with your mother and grandmother in the audience, and it is being broadcast on CNN.
We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.