A Quote by Edna O'Brien
...people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too, only more so.
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
I went from really hating my body, to disliking it, to accepting it but not exactly liking it, then accepting it and liking it, and now I love it.
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Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the one you are with; you are not liking the person you have become.
What is important for me is that people are liking my movies, I am liking my work, for which I am very happy.
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