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• I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific. Universality, I think, emerges from truthful identity of what is.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

  Lorraine Hansberry (2012). “Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?”, p.6, Vintage

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• Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

  Ayn Rand

  Consciousness, Identification, Existence

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.172, Penguin

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• I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.

  Roseanne Barr

  Stress, Childhood, Resilience

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• I do believe that half a dozen commonplace attorneys could so mystify and misconstrue the Ten Commandments, and so confuse Moses' surroundings on Mount Sinai, that the great law-giver, if he returned to this planet, would doubt his own identity, abjure every one of his deliverances, yea, even commend the very sins he so clearly forbade his people.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Believe, Law, People

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• Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character.

  Mary McCarthy

  Sex, Character, Space

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The humanist in the bathtub”

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• Identity is a very difficult thing in the theatre. As an actor said to me one day, 'What are we doing today?' when we were doing a workshop. And I said, 'Oh, just be yourself'. And he said to me, 'I don't know who that is, I'm an actor'. And I begin to realise in fact that we seek identity because we're told we should have one, but I wonder whether it's necessary.

  George Ogilvie

  Being Yourself, Should Have, Theatre

  "Epiphanies: George Ogilvie, Director and Pilgrim". "The Spirit of Things" with Rachael Kohn, www.abc.net.au. December 03, 2006.

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• The arts are part of a nation's identity, they are part of a nation's soul and when we look at a country from the eyes of people overseas they are part of a nations branding in the world as it were.

  George Brandis

  Country, Art, Eye

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.I want an Australian vision of arts policy that is expansive, is embracing, is not narrow, is not parochial. For example, that Australians can do Shakespeare just as well as Englishmen can because we, like every civilised nation, partake of the great canonical works. It's not about Australian nationalism; it's about our identity as a culturally ambitious, culturally sophisticated nation.

  George Brandis

  Art, Vision, Ambitious

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• American films are the best films. This is a fact. Cinema is - along with Jazz - the great American art form. And cinema in a very real sense created the American identity that has been exported around the world.

  Ben Dreyfuss

  Art, Real, Cinema

  "We Love America, and You Should, Too". James West and Ben Dreyfuss conversation, www.motherjones.com. July 3, 2015.

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• My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.

  Jane Fonda

  Successful, Men, Long

  "Jane Fonda on Men, Power and Plastic Surgery". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2007.

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• The desire to work with Burrows-Charles was really to change NBC's identity, to say, "We want to be in the sophisticated-adult-comedy business."

  Amy Poehler

  Nbc, Desire, Adults

  Source: www.gq.com

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• The only thing that frees you from the need to pretend in order to make people believe you are something when you are actually not is the gospel because the gospel tells you that identity, my meaning, my security, and all of those things are in Christ.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Believe, Order, People

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• You do need some successes as a young person. They don't inflate the ego necessarily, they just give you identity and ego structure. But, don't construct your life around creating those. Or you will become narcissistic and ego-centric. That won't get you anywhere.

  Richard Rohr

  Creating, Giving, Ego

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• I think, for some artists, the fear of taking on a political identity stems from not wanting to be pigeonholed as political actor or a political musician. It becomes this thing where somehow your art can no longer exist on its own and be multifaceted.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Art, Thinking, Political

  Interview with Eddie Vedder, www.believermag.com. June, 2004.

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• National identity is a motion. It's something you're inside, you don't get what's happening, you can't see it from above. And that's where you have to write. You can't see what's happening now or what's going to happen, so you just dive into it and write.

  Karl Ove Knausgard

  Writing, Happens, Happenings

  ""Something that's not yourself." - An Interview with Karl Ove Knausgård". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. September 18, 2013.

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• Being Nigerian is a strong part of my identity. Being American is a strong part of my identity. And there are important parts of who I am that really have nothing to do with my national connection.

  Teju Cole

  Strong, Who I Am, Important

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him. I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

  Carson McCullers

  Loneliness, Independent, Weather

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• it matters infinitely less what we do than what we are.

  Harriet Martineau

  Matter

  Harriet Martineau (1849). “Life in the sick-room. Essays. By an invalid [i.e. H. Martineau] ... Third edition”, p.138

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• Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Loss, Echoes, Affirmation

  Mary Catherine Bateson (2007). “Composing a Life”, p.180, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Who you are depends on who you meet.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Self, Depends, Who You Are

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2006). “Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World”, p.88, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.

  Margaret Halsey

  Daughter, Pharaohs, Way

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• As a Black lesbian feminist comfortable with the many different ingredients of my identity, and a woman committed to racial and sexual freedom from oppression, I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self. But this is a destructive and fragmenting way to live.

  Audre Lorde

  Meaningful, Acceptance, Self

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• I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.

  Audre Lorde

  Mother, Warrior, Feminist

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• Like the Pentagon, our social science often reduces all phenomena to dollars and body counts. Sexuality, family unity, kinship, masculine solidarity, maternity, motivation, nurturing, all the rituals of personal identity and development, all the bonds of community, seem "sexist," "superstitious," "mystical," "inefficient," "discriminatory." And, of course, they are -- and they are also indispensable to a civilized society.

  George Gilder

  Motivation, Community, Maternity

  George F. Gilder (1973). “Sexual Suicide”, [New York] : Quadrangle

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• I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Losing, Hermits

  Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches”, p.15, Library of Alexandria

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