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It's instinct: Men love to feel like they take care of you. Knowing you feel protected makes his ego grow two sizes bigger.
- Matthew Hussey
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The biggest mistake people make about me is that they see me as some sort of god-like figure with a big ego. If I see a button, a T-shirt, that says, 'Yngwie is God,' I just look at it as a complimentary way of people telling me they like me. Although it's very flattering, it doesn't change the way I look at myself.
- Yngwie Malmsteen
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I hate when pitchers get me out multiple times. It's probably an ego thing, but I don't like that.
- Cody Bellinger
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It's not good to have a huge ego.
- Josephine Langford
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If you get conquered by ego, then you are losing the fight.
- Edgar Ramirez
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It's really important to create something, like with my creations as a musician. Just let it flow. Focus on how to deliver message to audience. Don't get ego.
- Miyavi
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Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion.
- Miguel
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Art has more ego to it than what I do.
- Eva Zeisel
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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
- Bobby Fischer
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Me and Dre go back so far - a long 30 years - even before N.W.A. The way we talk to each other now is the same way we talked when we first met. No big heads, no ego stuff.
- DJ Yella
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Ego suppression can be an act of ostentation.
- David Milch
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An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
- Alec Guinness
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If you want to be an actor, you should keep confident. Don't get too much of an ego and become not humble. But you should have esteem and not feel bad when you don't book something. So I think you should just stay humble, but you also need to have some esteem to make yourself keep going.
- Nolan Gould
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When everyone is buying into a system and puts their ego to the side, that's when greatness happens.
- Karl-Anthony Towns
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I am not a superstar or an ego. I am just the same as I always was: Someone who plays football.
- N'Golo Kante
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When it comes to filmmaking, we have to deal with ego, anger, and a lot more; barring all these, how the team works towards the outcome matters.
- R. Madhavan
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Doing a TV show where it's a very relentless schedule, it does democratise you in a brilliant way. It does chip away at the old ego and you do realise that you're only really ever as good as the words that you're saying, the people you're talking to, or more importantly, listening to.
- Tom Burke
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Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.
- Geoffrey Rush
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We are all idealists in that we are ever discontented with the present state of the Ego and the World.
- Ameen Rihani
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Giving in to your ego is one of the oldest stories in the showbiz book. But so is figuring out how to stay vivid.
- Margo Jefferson
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Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.
- Tom Robbins
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If you're 100% yourself, then you're going to be different no matter what. I have this self-honesty approach as opposed to an ego that a lot of musicians put up. I can be myself, and that's just enough to stand out.
- Shamir
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I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing.
- Steve Perry
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Ego is hilarious - especially the vanity of a comedian. As soon as you see one start worrying about how cool he is or about how many stadiums he can fill, he stops being funny.
- Ricky Gervais
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When bands got really big and sold a lot of records back in the day and did really well on the road, everyone developed a certain ego. And there's a certain entitlement that comes with that. And it stops people from communicating the way you used to communicate when you were in a band together and it was all for one, one for all.
- Scott Weiland
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My message to the world is to surrender your ego: try not to think that you are not as fortunate as some people or inferior or not as good as someone else.
- Manal al-Sharif
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Gnarls Barkley is an alter ego and something like an out of body experience.
- CeeLo Green
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It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
- Walter Russell Mead
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With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.
- Glenn Close
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All of us use crutches of popularity amongst friends, society, social media for self-importance. People go to any extent to feed their ego, even if that means to show someone down, self-destruction or to kill someone.
- Shweta Basu Prasad
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You have to make sure you have a relatable emotion through the movie. You have to check your ego and go into a territory and recognize that nobody knows you. You go back again and again, and by the third time, you are a star.
- James Lassiter
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Pride or ego is not important to me. What is more important is common sense, the welfare of the company, and the objective reality that we need to be cautious during difficult times. One should not make decisions based on emotions or ego.
- Henry Sy
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I fed my ego, but not my soul.
- Yakov Smirnoff
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Planned Parenthood is being mentioned by the Republican Party more than ISIS. I think Trump is insane. I don't think you could have a normal conversation or even convince him. I think the ego is just about Trump. It's not about the issues at all.
- Marilyn Minter
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I think I have let ego get in the way sometimes - the pendulum swung pretty strongly. I was maybe a little overconfident at one point in my time, and then I went way the other way and thought I wasn't capable of anything.
- Stephanie McMahon
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What I hate is that not many people admit to having a big ego, but you have to - and there's nothing wrong with it.
- Marina and the Diamonds
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As a director, you're a bit of a dictator. But I feel that you're a better director if you're open to other people's ideas. It means that it's tougher: you have to be in a choosing process; you have to put the ego aside. As long as everybody's aiming in the same direction... I'm open to my main partners in the film crew.
- Denis Villeneuve
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If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.
- Lewis Black
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My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.
- Randy Jackson
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The downfall of any leader in a sport's team is when he gets carried away with his own ego.
- Toto Wolff
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Maybe, as a Chinese woman, I was never told I would be a filmmaker, so I didn't have the ego set up.
- Chloe Zhao
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We actors have a big problem. We have a lot of insecurity and we are fragile. We surround ourselves with people who praise our ego and lie to us... till that moment you realise that these people are not helping you get ahead.
- Amala Paul
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Anyone can become a game show host. It simply requires a giant, narcissistic ego and an inability to do anything else. The closest thing to school I did was looking in the mirror one hundred times a day and repeating, 'People should listen to you talk.'
- Kurt Braunohler
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Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of arrogance to be able to play well and to push yourself and trick yourself into thinking you're better than you really are.
- David Cone
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Misconception Number 1, the public always thought, 'Reggie has a massive ego; he's narcissistic, he's cocky, he needs everyone to look at him all the time,' because that's what the media told them. Wrong. I could handle the attention. I didn't let the attention affect my performance. But I never needed the attention.
- Reggie Jackson
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A man's car is like an extension of their ego and their manhood.
- Shakira
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When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.
- Billy Ocean
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I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.
- Hugh Downs
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Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value, but psychologists say it is a fantasy based on ruling-class ego and guilt.
- Gloria Steinem
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I'm tired of people disturbing the peace, getting on the radio and sounding a hot mess. If I can tell what the note really is, why let them go to the note they think it is? I've got that mama vibe. I don't look at it with an ego.
- Betty Wright
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I definitely have an alter ego that can come out and get me out of situations where I'm having social anxiety. I can take a deep breath and create a bubble so I can perform in some way.
- Lindy Booth
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There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'
- Samira Wiley
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Parents are destined to sin against their kids; it's inevitable. As is narcissism and the human condition. Everyone has their ego and their ambitions. Life happens in between.
- Alice Ripley
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To build an empire - or win seven Tour de Frances in a row - you must have a Lone Star-size ego and a dash of megalomania.
- Stephen Rodrick
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I just recently joined Twitter. It's very positive - I love all the accolades. If my ego is hurting, I can just open my Twitter account and see 'Oh, I love you! I love the show!' and it's great. I'm trying to find the balance between trying to be funny, being honest and just being a promoter as the guy on 'Royal Pains.'
- Mark Feuerstein
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
- Barbra Streisand
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Hollywood is so governed by the ego, and I never wanted to fall into that trap.
- Kimberly Elise
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Ego, id, and superego are terms familiar to all, but for many years, Freud's psychoanalytic theory has thrived in English departments around the country as a tool for interpreting literary texts but has rarely, if ever, been discussed in science departments.
- Siri Hustvedt
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Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.
- Marc Maron
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As a busker, one thing that does not work is self-consciousness. A busker needs to be working. A busker needs to shed all ego and get down to work. Play your songs, play them well, earn your money, and don't get in people's way.
- Glen Hansard
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I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.
- Josh Brolin
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
- Karen Armstrong
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Tina Snow' was more turnt up than anything I ever dropped, it's my alter ego.
- Megan Thee Stallion
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This Romeo character is something I decided to create, like my alter ego. So the name Romeo was invented from the original Romeo and Juliet. I wanted to show people I'm like a modern Romeo.
- Romeo Santos
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I mean, don't get me wrong, being ref is a very tough job - managing 10 of the best athletes in the world. At the same time, I think there is way too much ego from their standpoint.
- Matt Barnes
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People sense when you're pretending, when you're worried about your own ego.
- Sydney Pollack
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I would take one of 15 half-million-dollar cars I owned and go to the mall and spend that much money. Stupid, stupid stuff. It's like it didn't make a difference. They were ego investments. I would have been great with three or four cars. I didn't need a 117-foot boat.
- Scott Storch
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All my ego wants is to be sitting by a lake in Italy. It doesn't want to be backstage, warming up.
- Chet Faker
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J. Tillman was kind of an alter ego. There was a lot I didn't want people to know about my real life. With Father John Misty, I leave everything in: so much so that I lose sleep before these albums come out because there is always a line or two in there where I'm just like, 'This is not going to go down very well.'
- Josh Tillman
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I have a gigantic ego and need to be at the top of the pile and be doing amazingly well; also, at the same time, I'm just pleased to be anywhere.
- Robbie Williams
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The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
- Muhammad Iqbal
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Beethoven's reputation is based entirely on gossip. The middle Beethoven represents a supreme example of a composer on an ego trip.
- Glenn Gould
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Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.
- John Bradshaw
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It's very exciting to take magic into a new direction, whereas a lot of times magic comes from a place of sort of ego, like, 'Look what I can do that you can't do.' It kind of comes across that way a lot, and you're always trying to challenge the magician; you're always trying to figure out how the magician is doing it.
- Michael Carbonaro
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Comedians... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious.
- Sharon Horgan
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I came to believe that my true identity goes beyond the outer roles I play. It transcends the ego. I came to understand that there is an Authentic 'I' within - an 'I Am,' or divine spark within the soul.
- Sue Monk Kidd
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Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.
- Bonnie Jo Campbell
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I don't like my ego stroked too much.
- Victoria Azarenka
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My ego is one thing. Of course I want people to like what I do. Of course. There's no doubt. You wouldn't do it. But I think what people don't fully know is how responsible you feel for so many entities. So many hardworking people who've collaborated.
- Debra Granik
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If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
- Ramana Maharshi
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It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.
- Eberhard Weber
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Oh, there's so much ego with men; in their head, they can't possibly think about Tesco's when they are doing Othello. Er, why not? They want to think that they are such geniuses they can't muddy their day with domesticity, and I've got no truck with it whatsoever.
- Lesley Manville
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I'm not over-enamored of complicated books, and wonder if it's more for the author's ego than anything else?
- Eric Hill
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When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.
- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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In 'A Bone in the Throat,' he describes his protagonist and alter ego, the cook Tommy Pagano, as 'darker, and not as tall as the chef, his hair stood up straight and spiky like a young Trotsky's.' He describes Little Italy with such verve, such flavor, that it is impossible not to smell the streets or taste the food.
- Sarah Weinman
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I think you see more of like, the party side of me, which I call Snooki, it's kind of my alter ego.
- Nicole Polizzi
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I think it's important to talk to your inner thing. The purpose is to go over the decisions that will affect my life and others. I pray that I don't make my decisions based on ego.
- Glen Taylor
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.
- Karen Armstrong
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At times I've got a really big ego. But I'll tell you the best thing about me. I'm some guy's dad; I'm some little gal's dad. When I die, if they say I was Annie's husband and Zachary John and Anna Kate's father, boy, that's enough for me to be remembered by. That's more than enough.
- John Denver
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I always wanted to have sort of an alter ego.
- Finn Balor
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It's good to have a healthy ego because that pushes you to succeed. But when you cross a line, and your views are not balanced, that's when you get into trouble.
- Judy Smith
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I was a shy kid growing up, and I liked the idea of playing under this alter ego: like, I could be Ziggy Stardust, but I also knew I could never be Ziggy Stardust.
- John Gourley
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I think I'm great. I mean, I might as well come out and say it. Like most people, I have an ego and I'm in show business, so you have to have kind of a healthy, conflagrated ego to a degree. On the other hand, I'm consumed, like a lot of people, with self-doubt and loathing and guilt.
- Loudon Wainwright III
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I have Kanye's ego to some extent.
- Lil Dicky
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My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.
- Meek Mill
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I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it.
- Valerie Harper
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When I was 22 years old, and I first got to Nashville, women or girls were objects. It was a conquest. My emptiness inside and the external manifestation of my ego was to somehow conquer women.
- Rodney Crowell
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Fighting in the ring or cage is very much different from fighting in the street. Fighting in the street is very much fueled by anger, pride, and male dominance and ego.
- Joel Edgerton
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Sometimes I wish I was one of those artists like David Bowie. They're not putting their private lives out there; it's about show and entertainment. But an alter ego is very dangerous for me. Because I am the guy who will become lost in that.
- John Grant
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I've never really minded being Mrs. Robbie Williams because my ego is relatively small, but it is really nice now that people know there is something else there besides that.
- Ayda Field
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