A Quote by Sally Rooney

I try not to let myself get too wrapped up in the image of whatever my books have become in the outside world.

Sally Rooney

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Sally Rooney
Irish - Author
Born: 1991

I feel like too many guys get wrapped up in this image that a quarterback is supposed to have, and I've never bought into that.

Brock Osweiler

When I get on the World Cup tour, I'm kind of disconnected from the world. I just kind of get wrapped up in my world and wrapped up in trying to ski fast every day, and I forget about everything else.

Lindsey Vonn

I'm very good in math, and I'm a logical thinker. I don't get wrapped up in things or even wrapped up in myself.

Alan C. Greenberg

At times during hockey, I know myself, you get so wrapped up in it, you squeeze your stick a little too much, all those things, or you're too focused.

Jarome Iginla

'Downton Abbey' has become this huge thing, and I really enjoy the success of it, but I sometimes find myself on the outside looking in, which is sort of a healthy way to look at it so you don't get too caught up in it.

Michelle Dockery

When you get frustrated you try to do too much, you try to make stuff up that's not there, and you play outside yourself.

Matt Hasselbeck

I try to stay fit and eat healthily, but I am not anxious to starve myself and become unnaturally thin. I don't find that look attractive on women and I don't want to become part of that trend. It's unhealthy and it puts too much pressure on women in general who are being fed this image of the ideal, which it is not.

Scarlett Johansson

Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?

Douglas Adams

As long as I'm living, I'm always going to try and become and get to whatever is next. Even when I become this one thing, when I get there, I'm going to try and become something else. As human beings, as long as we're alive, we're forever becoming.

Stacy Barthe

The more and more I step back and look at myself from my own personal perspective - which is what I try to do, to get outside of myself and look at it - there aren't too many things that I don't think I am. I like to party 'n' bullshit, entertain, be the center of attention, and pour champagne on naked girls. I like to do that too.

Keith Stanfield

My mum used to tell me to never boil my cabbages twice, and I think it's artistically valid. While I do find myself on similar themes in my books, I try not to repeat myself, and that's something which is all too easy to do in series books.

Geraldine McCaughrean

During events like the World Cup and the Olympics, I tend to get really wrapped up in my own experience to stay focused, but it's like a bubble. I don't see much outside my own perspective.

Abby Wambach

I was fortunate to not get wrapped up too hard in anything that was too dangerous.

Robert Trujillo

I try to get myself up and moving as early as possible. Optimum is to be on the treadmill while it is still dark outside.

Henry Rollins

Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you set up to keep the outside world at a distance, if they area dream into which you sink as if into a drug, or bridges you cast toward the outside, toward the world that interests you so much that you want to multiply and extend its dimensions through books.