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More generally, my obsessiveness about books, songs, and films was a beard on growing up, which I didn't want to catch myself doing.
"But I catch myself doing it now, so I will stop and try a different, more healthy approach," asking questions that draw out her own thoughts and solutions.
I catch myself doing it; so keen to maintain rapport and show empathy by maintaining eye contact, I sneak what chances I can to glance at exposed parts of the body, particularly the wrists and the upper arms.
My obsessiveness about books, songs and films was a beard on growing up, which I didn't want to catch myself doing… Writer considers his own prose as a magpie's, a welter of borrowings… there's a death wish in reducing life to watching one's twitch on the alphabet….
When I am in England I am not in the least embarrassed if I walk around the house with my shoes on, but when I catch myself doing it in a Swedish house I squirm, because there I learned to take them off at the door.
Whether such trade-offs as each offers are welcome to you is a personal decision — but it's unwise to write off a category altogether (as I catch myself doing with Twitter).
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I've caught myself doing that in practice".
I caught myself doing it, caught myself thinking of something clever to say, making up something clever to tell myself so that I could slip away.
(I'll admit that I've caught myself doing this at times).
I've caught myself doing that very same thing.
I've caught myself doing this again lately, which I've done every four years for what seems like an eternity now.
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