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Generally speaking, the women that join the show are not self-absorbed, catty, horrible people. They’re birds in gilded cages. They go in there with the right intention, but then you get sucked into this system of what the viewers want, these women are part of a machine that has awarded them and fed them for outrageous behavior. It’s a career. It’s their check. And they do n’t have other jobs outside of it. And so you become a product of the environment of what the fan is looking for. – Heather Thomson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Im working at a higher frequency than I was when I was just kind of winging it, theres a lot more thought put into my work now, so I do believe that Im in a better place and I like that Ive grown up a lot. Im not a self-absorbed lunatic anymore. – Chelsea Handler	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I take a character who in a million years would never think she'd be the main character in a movie... but here I make her front and center. I think that's her emotional journey, as she goes from being like an afterthought in the school to being the main character -- like, really owning it in her life, i think that's probably true for a lot of us... we might think about ourselves a lot and we're self-absorbed, but we don't always see ourselves as the main characters in our life. – Alice Wu	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We are surrounded by people who are so selfish and so self-absorbed, not voting for Hillary is a sure win for Donald Trump. – Melissa Robbins	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
She's a fun person to play ... Even the big head is great ... And it's liberating to play somebody who is so direct and so fantastically self-absorbed and narcissistic, the downside is the shouting and ... how long it takes to get ready, and two bald caps. – Bonham Carter	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We understand that what happened had its roots in an organization that was too hierarchical and too self-absorbed to be able to act properly on the disturbing stories individuals had heard. – Stuart Hall	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Despite what one self-absorbed, heartless killer tried to do, in the end we won, in the end we wound up with the most points. We have the most self-worth. Game over. – Amee Gharbi	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed. – Leo Rosten	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed. – Leo C. Rosten	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Generally speaking, the women that join the show are not self-absorbed, catty, horrible people. They’re birds in gilded cages. They go in there with the right intention, but then you get sucked into this system of what the viewers want, these women are part of a machine that has awarded them and fed them for outrageous behavior. It’s a career. It’s their check. And they do n’t have other jobs outside of it. And so you become a product of the environment of what the fan is looking for.

– Heather Thomson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Im working at a higher frequency than I was when I was just kind of winging it, theres a lot more thought put into my work now, so I do believe that Im in a better place and I like that Ive grown up a lot. Im not a self-absorbed lunatic anymore.

– Chelsea Handler

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I take a character who in a million years would never think she'd be the main character in a movie... but here I make her front and center. I think that's her emotional journey, as she goes from being like an afterthought in the school to being the main character -- like, really owning it in her life, i think that's probably true for a lot of us... we might think about ourselves a lot and we're self-absorbed, but we don't always see ourselves as the main characters in our life.

– Alice Wu

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We are surrounded by people who are so selfish and so self-absorbed, not voting for Hillary is a sure win for Donald Trump.

– Melissa Robbins

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

She's a fun person to play ... Even the big head is great ... And it's liberating to play somebody who is so direct and so fantastically self-absorbed and narcissistic, the downside is the shouting and ... how long it takes to get ready, and two bald caps.

– Bonham Carter

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We understand that what happened had its roots in an organization that was too hierarchical and too self-absorbed to be able to act properly on the disturbing stories individuals had heard.

– Stuart Hall

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Despite what one self-absorbed, heartless killer tried to do, in the end we won, in the end we wound up with the most points. We have the most self-worth. Game over.

– Amee Gharbi

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

– Leo Rosten

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

– Leo C. Rosten

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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