Identity Quotes - Page 31

• What happens in a play is determined to a certain extent by what I thought might be interesting to have happen before I invented the characters, before they started taking over what happened, because they are three-dimensional individuals, and I cannot tell them what to do. Once I give them their identity and their nature, they start writing the play.

  Edward Albee

  Writing, Character, Play

  Interview with Linda Leseman, www.believermag.com. September, 2013.

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• If Turkey become a member of the EU, of course Turks would lose a part of this identity, just as Europe would lose a part of its own. It would also be a different Europe then. Accepting Turkey into the EU is an ambitious political endeavor of historical proportions. Europe would become a strong, multi-religious unit.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Religious, Strong, Europe

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• I would tell new artists to be themselves. Show your talents first, have your own identity, don't try to be Lady Saw. If you're coming out to be like me, once you get in, return back to yourself, that's the only way you'll be happy. Don't come in trying to be me and then disrespect me.

  Lady Saw

  Artist, Return Back, Disrespect

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• There is no "era" of simple, focused, concept-driven identity design. There is only design that grows out of understanding audiences for specific problems, and that evolves from an idea. This is an approach that does not depend on any specific time period or its technology.

  Ivan Chermayeff

  Technology, Simple, Ideas

  Source: www.printmag.com

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• She's 80 my nan, what do you want for your birthday? "SHREDDER!! GET ME A SHREDDER!!", what do you want a shredder for? "IDENTITY THEFT!!".

  Russell Howard

  Funny, Humor, Want

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• My intention is not to repudiate an African American identity but perhaps to resist how labels take hold, or to make it as slow a process as possible. That's more my sense of it.

  Mark McMorris

  African American, Labels, Intention

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Production of identity is a resistance element, an aggressive element. Both a refusal and an affirmation and an assertion, and certainly, we in Jamaica were talking about black art. And the idea that there is a role for art in the civil rights revolution and in the successor to the civil rights revolution.

  Mark McMorris

  Art, Ideas, Rights

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• All third world literature is about nation, that identity is the fundamental literary problem in the third world. The writer's identity is insecure because the nation's identity is not secure. The nation doesn't provide the third world writer with a secure identity, because the nation is colonized, it's oppressed, it's part of somebody else's empire.

  Mark McMorris

  Insecure, Empires, World Literature

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• The nation as the horizon of an identity that you want to come into being as a fundamental absence of something that is compromised, something that needs to be rescued or made - these matters preoccupy the third world writer. It is seductive for a Marxist understanding of literary practice and production in the sense that it says that material culture determines literary output.

  Mark McMorris

  Practice, Seductive, Understanding

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Writing a novel, I am making is an object that has a life and identity of its own, apart from me.

  Jay Neugeboren

  Writing, Novel, Objects

  Source: www.jewishbookcouncil.org

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• It is terribly important to maintain a national identity in a way that it probably wasn't before.

  Robert Dessaix

  Important, Way, National Identity

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• With motocross I've found that passion becomes your identity and that identity breaks all barriers.

  Travis Pastrana

  Passion, Break, Motocross

  Source: dirtaction.com.au

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• I believe that the source of your inspiration is very important. I sometimes see this problem with photographers, even very good ones, who have drawn too much inspiration from photography and who, over time, have a problem forming their own identity.

  Peter Lindbergh

  Photography, Inspiration, Believe

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• It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Running, India

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• New York is one of those places people tend to derive a sense of identity from - as if, were to you to remove them from the City, they'd turn limp and colorless.

  Cate Marvin

  New York, Cities, People

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• I find the elitism and blatant provincialism of many (Manhattan-based) New Yorkers unattractive. Just as place can be an identity crutch that helps a person feel individual, place can be a crutch in poetry.

  Cate Marvin

  Manhattan, Unattractive, Helping

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• The way to respect all the people I love is to eat the music, have it in my blood and bones, and try to explore it in as much different ways as possible to create my own identity.

  Hiromi

  Love Is, Blood, People

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• Ever since I started acting, I've always spoken to our people about identity. I've spoken to kids, telling them: "Where do I get my strength to push through the barriers to get me where I'm at today? It's my culture and my traditions, you know?

  Adam Beach

  Kids, People, Acting

  Source: liseking.wordpress.com

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• The phrase "corporate identity design" seems to be a bit exclusive it sometimes frightens the smaller client who can't relate because they don't consider themselves "corporate."

  Jeff Fisher

  Design, Phrases, Clients

  Source: justcreative.com

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• Really successful designs can be created without software produced "special effects." Identities do not NEED bevels, gradations, 3-D imagery, Web 2.Oh-Oh and other oh so "special" treatments to be great design solutions for clients.

  Jeff Fisher

  Successful, Design, Special

  Source: justcreative.com

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• When I watch animals, I realize I am watching individual with lives that matter, to them. It isn't just another chicken or another mouse. She is that particular hen, autonomous and unique. He is that particular mouse with a unique life and social identity.

  Jonathan Balcombe

  Animal, Unique, Hens

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• Cycling is part of me, it's who I am. When you get injured, your whole identity is taken away from you, you're no longer yourself.

  Magnus Backstedt

  Taken, Cycling, Who I Am

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I think it's good if a man gives a woman some time to herself because I think we all need that and we can all benefit from that. It doesn't imply a rejection of the other person, just a sense that because we do have our separate identities, sometimes you have to be less involved in another person's life or need to have that other person be less involved in your life.

  Jack Nicholson

  Men, Thinking, Giving

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• Families have a citizenship which is divine. The identity card they have is given to them by God. So that within the heart of the family, truth, goodness and beauty may truly grow.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Cards, May

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I love ebola jokes. When done in the right way, maybe it gets people to learn about ebola, to learn about the stigmas behind the identities held by Africans and so on.

  Trevor Noah

  Ebola, People, Done

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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