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I love to lose myself in other men's minds. -- Charles Lamb
I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage. -- Ken Livingstone
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work. -- David Mitchell
I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself. -- Alice Sebold
The closest I've come to knowing myself is in losing myself. That's why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it. -- Kris Kristofferson
I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me. -- Richard Powers
If I even lose my glasses or make a mistake. I become really disappointed in myself. -- Kenny G
I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them. -- Orson Welles
That's all I want, to keep losing myself. -- Andrew Garfield
I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing. -- Roger Waters
I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself. -- Elizabeth Berkley
Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself. -- Julia Stiles
I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession. -- Marissa Mayer
Win or lose, I'll feel good about myself. That's what is important. -- Mary Docter
I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels. -- Heather Donahue
I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day. -- Grace Jones
If I'm slimmer, I feel better about myself, but I don't lose weight for anybody else or for a magazine. -- Lucy Davis
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself. -- Raoul Vaneigem
If I start mining for opinions on hundreds of websites that have fan forums, I'll be totally distorted in my view of myself. I'll lose myself in all that. -- Geddy Lee
Let me go on sleeping and I will lose myself in palaces of sand, and all the fantasies that I've been keeping will make the empty hours easier to stand. -- Billy Joel
I find DIY really therapeutic. I lose myself in it, because you can concentrate on the task and not think about all the other stuff going on in your life. -- Andrea McLean
I like music,' she said slowly, 'because when I hear it, I...I lose myself within myself if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once. -- Sarah J. Maas
I can lose myself in the Universe. -- Myleene Klass
I did not lose myself all at once. -- Amy Tan
I'd rather lose myself in passion than lose my passion. -- Jacques Mayol
Listen.I will lose myselfif it means I can find you. -- Alaska Gold
I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself. -- Joseph Monninger
Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself. -- William Shakespeare
I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me. -- Charles Lamb
I long to escape the prison of my ego and lose myself in You. -- Rumi
I need nothing but God, and to lose myself in the heart of God. -- Margaret Mary Alacoque
I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience. -- Steven Spielberg
I could lose myself forever in that dark hair and those sweet love handles. -- Vera Brosgol
I love to lose myself in a mystery to pursue my reason to an O altitudo. -- Thomas Browne
Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't want to lose my name because that's how I know myself. There is a legacy here. -- Moon Unit Zappa
I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me. -- Robert Smith
I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else. -- Kevin Bacon
I like to be human and not lose myself in becoming a mannequin, which people in showbiz are accused of. -- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself. -- Jane Seymour
Every time I drift away I lose myself in you. And now I see I can be me in every thing I do. -- Michelle Branch
I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing. -- Roxane Gay
I think before I act---and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do. -- John Christopher
If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself-or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself. -- Oprah Winfrey
He's complicated and complex, a labyrinth I want to lose myself in. He's my fighter, and I really want to fight to be with him. -- Katy Evans
I love going to rock concerts, I love to lose myself in that vast wave of rhythm and body heat and get on the same vibe. -- Elizabeth Taylor
It is what I was born for - to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world - to instruct myself over and over... -- Mary Oliver
The closest Ive come to knowing myself is in losing myself. Thats why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it. -- Kris Kristofferson
Give me a literary love that doesn't need words, that flows like silent water and speaks to the bone. There I lose myself in the fantasy. -- Julie Harvey Delcourt
I decided I needed something that I could feel as passionate about as acting, and something in which I could completely lose myself. I started painting, and I'm still doing it. -- Michelle Pfeiffer
I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water. -- Amy Tan
I would totally lose myself in the music and be a gypsy. I would go wherever I wanted to in my head - wherever the music took me. My body followed. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I learned to look up suddenly from a hatch or feeding frenzy and find myself momentarily removed from solid earth. I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself -- Joseph Monninger
I'm afraid I'll lose myself in you, Gideon. I'm scared I'll lose the part of me I worked so hard to get back." "I'd never let that happen." he promised fiercely. Chapter 8, pg 140 -- Sylvia Day
I tend to lose myself in the moment. I'm not very good at holding back. I don't know how to do this without feeling everything. My emotions are the tool I use to perform. -- Florence Welch
After filming, I cant wait to shake off all that 50s primness. Ill go out to a gig and dance ridiculously. I love to lose myself in music. Just letting go - its dead important. -- Jessica Raine
As long as there are a few people there, I can lose myself, which is the ultimate goal. And that's happening more and more; the non-musical world is becoming less and less interesting to me. -- Cass McCombs
After filming, I can't wait to shake off all that '50s primness. I'll go out to a gig and dance ridiculously. I love to lose myself in music. Just letting go - it's dead important. -- Jessica Raine
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But once in a while . . . I don't know. I feel so close, Rose. So close to the edge. Like if I allow myself one small misstep, I'll plunge away and never come back. It's like I'll lose myself. -- Richelle Mead
Drawing is the only thing I've found in which I can lose myself completely. I love it. It started as something that relaxed me, but now it's a struggle because I'm pushing myself. The day-to-day sketching is fraught. -- Peter Capaldi
This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads leading to nowhere; but, I found myself instead. -Magic in the Backyard (excerpt from American Honey) -- Kellie Elmore
When I perform, I lose myself. I'm in total control of that stage. I don't think about anything. I know what I want to do from the moment I step out there and I love every minute of it. -- Michael Jackson
The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
I don't want to be the person who gasps in fear whenever she hears the sound of a doorbell or a phone. I just want to lose myself in these hills, in the river winding west to the city of bridges. -- Mira Bartok
Somehow I could lose myself in the ocean the same way I could lose myself in a good book. Maybe it was because both involved suspension--a suspension of weight, a suspension of disbelief--a willingness to surrender to something greater than oneself." -- Eve Marie Mont
I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I lose myself in my performances so I wouldn't say that I ever act on stage. I don't find it to be an acting drill for me. I just find it to be something very real that comes from a very gut-driven, honest place. -- Christina Aguilera
I can completely lose myself into just absolutely satisfying things - a really amazing cheeseburger, a pizza, good fries, a beer. I enjoy being comfortable and eating whatever the hell I like. It's a big thing for me, just having the freedom to be able to do that. -- Channing Tatum
I tried to lose myself in school and friends as best as I was able, trying to put Dorian's world out of my mind. But that was pretty much impossible with Clarrisa's constant, homicidally cheerful presence, which was, I supposed, something like making friends with a live grenade. -- V.M. Black
I just want to continue to grow, as an actor, and dig. Hopefully, one day, I'll lose myself in a role. My only worry about that is that I just want to be able to come back home. I don't want to get lost forever. That scares me. -- Jill Scott
Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in equal measure. I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself, and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing. -- Roxane Gay
I am staring into eyes so dark and compelling that I feel as if I could easily lose myself within them. He moves me slightly away from his body but doesn't let go. Energy, just like in the forest a few nights ago, ebbs and flows betwen us. -- Jennifer Sucevic
Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself. -- John Milton
I don't want to lose myself in football and that's what a coach has to do to be successful. -- Dennis Bergkamp
Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words. -- Sarah Dessen
I like to watch MTV for escapist pleasure, but when I saw Snooki, I saw my twin. I couldn't lose myself in the show anymore because there I was. -- Anne Hathaway
I blame myself every night we lose. -- Johnny Damon
I'd like to lose interest in myself ... -- Don DeLillo
Well there's nothing to lose And there's nothing to prove I'll be dancing with myself. -- Billy Idol
I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more. -- Theodore Roethke
How can you lose something you never had, I tell myself when I'm feeling sad. -- Elvis Presley
I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past. -- Walt Disney
The only way I can lose my mind in bed is to destroy myself in a fantasy. -- Patti Smith
You will have to grow up to her quickly, I thought, surprising myself, or you will lose her. -- Anne Rivers Siddons
I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate...and I drink Champagne when I lose, to console myself. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I knew what I took upon myself and I was prepared to lose my life by so doing. -- Hans Scholl
I find myself going out on the road to get my confidence back, because I lose it at home. -- Lionel Richie
When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself. -- Paulo Coelho
For me, there is only one means of ensuring that I do not lose respect for myself: constant criticism. -- Christian Morgenstern
I thought to myself, Join the army. It's free. So I figured while I'm here I'll lose a few pounds. -- John Candy
I go out on the road for much longer than I probably should and lose more of myself than I should. -- Sarah McLachlan
When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested. -- Richard Marx
I could feel myself begin to recede, to tip and lose balance, slide toward the deeper darkness that had crept from outside -- Bryan Mealer
Even when I lose faith in myself there is something in me that speaks through and says I am not finished yet. -- T.I.
If you have a dishonest moment, you're going to lose the audience. So I had to not only light myself in the scenes... -- Ryan Reynolds
I've always tried to tell myself that the work itself is the thing, that win, lose, or draw, the work is really what counts. -- Julius Erving
Showing myself nude from behind doesn't pose any problems, but from the front that's another story. I don't want to lose all my fans! -- Jean-Claude Van Damme
I really, really wanted to lose awareness of the here and now. The best way for me to do that was bury myself in a book. -- Charlaine Harris
When the game is over I just want to look at myself in the mirror, win or lose, and know I gave it everything I had. -- Joe Montana
I took desperate measures to lose weight and did terrible things to myself. I went from diet pills to thirty laxatives a day to throwing up. -- Richard Simmons
Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' is my go-to song to pump myself up if I'm having a tough time or if I get really nervous right before a speech. -- Sara Blakely
I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself. -- Franz Grillparzer
I suppose I didn't cry in all the cancer crap stuff because I felt I couldn't lose the battle, and part of the battle was holding myself together. -- Sam Taylor-Wood
Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick? -- Stephen Fry
I never want to lose my Canadian-ness...and when I say Canadian-ness, I mean down-to-earth. I like being able to not take myself seriously and to not feel entitled. -- Cobie Smulders

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