Who I Am Quotes - Page 22

• There's a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There's quite a big discrepancy sometimes between those things.

  Martin Freeman

  Thinking, Play, Differences

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• I'm naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I'm lax about my career. None of my work defines who I am.

  Catherine Tate

  Thinking, Careers, Lazy

  "Catherine the Great" by Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2006.

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• I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.

  Matt Bomer

  Growing Up, Artist, Past

  "Matt Bomer Tells the Personal Story Behind His Heartbreaking ‘Normal Heart’ Performance". Interview with Kevin Fallon, www.thedailybeast.com. May 21, 2014.

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• People are always talking about freedom.  Freedom to live a certain way, without being kicked around.  Course the more you live a certain way, the less it feel like freedom.  Me, uhm, I can change during the course of a day.  I wake and I'm one person, when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.  I don't know who I am most of the time.

  Richard Gere

  Sleep, Talking, People

  "Fictional character: Billy". "I'm Not There", www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• I wouldnt change anything because the mistakes and the hurt are as important as all the great fights. They made me who I am today.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Hurt, Mistake, Fighting

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Jun 03, 2014

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• I'm not gonna apologize for who I am and what I've gone through.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Gone, Apologizing

  "LeAnn Rimes accepts tabloid fascination, for now". Interview with Alicia Rancilio, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. October 6, 2011.

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• I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's who I am. And a part of what I know is there's a decency to people who tried to make a living in the kind of world that was around us and also the Skid Row area of the Bowery; it impressed me.

  Martin Scorsese

  New York, Italian, America

  "Martin Scorsese Defends 'The Wolf of Wall Street': 'The Devil Comes With a Smile' (Q&A)". Interview with Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 31, 2013.

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• Language both reflects and shapes society. Culture shapes language and then language shapes culture. Little wonder that the words we use to talk to each other, and about each other, are the most important words in our language: they tell us who I am, they tell us who you are, they tell us who 'they' are.

  Rosalie Maggio

  Important, Culture, Use

  Rosalie Maggio, The Women's Media Center (2015). “Unspinning the Spin: The Women's Media Center Guide to Fair and Accurate Language”, p.12, Open Road Media

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  Nobody really knows who I am, where I came from, what's in my heart, why I believe in the things I believe, what I see behind the scenes and they don't see.

  Hope Solo

  Believe, Heart, Behind The Scenes

  "Gobby, but without a Wookiee sidekick". www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.

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• I think it's sexy when someone makes a statement that says, 'This is who I am. This is what I think is sexy.'

  Carmen Electra

  Sexy, Thinking, Statements

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• Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.

  Arthur Godfrey

  Writing, Years, Play

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• This is who I am. Not everybody has to like it.

  Lisa Kudrow

  Communication, Nonviolent Communication

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• I'm more in that Rafa Nadal high-energy high-octane mold out there. I wear that emotion on the court. That's how I play my best tennis. People either like that or not. And I can't change that: that's who I am on a tennis court.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Play, People, Tennis

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Do you even know who I am? Seriously, tell me, because I don't.

  Gary Busey

  Knows

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• I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.

  Randy Houser

  Years, Bars, Saws

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• For those of you who don't know who I am, I played Natalie on The Facts of Life.

  Reno Collier

  Facts, Facts Of Life, Knows

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• For me, I wanted somebody that got me musically, that understood that I'm an artist and this is who I am. I'm not going to be like another artist on your label, probably - hopefully. I found all those things with the Broken Bow group.

  Joe Nichols

  Artist, Broken, Groups

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• Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.

  Octavia Butler

  Brain

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago”, p.98, Open Road Media

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• The past moves me and with me, although I remove myself from it. Its light often shines on this night traveler: and when it does, I scribble it down. Whatever pleasure is in it I need pass on. That's happiness. That is who I am.

  Virginia Hamilton

  Moving, Past, Night

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• I'm a novelist, I'm not an activist. I'm not a non-fiction writer, I'm not a journalist. I'm not a foodie, I'm not even really an animal person, or an environmentalist. I did the best I could with this, but it's not who I am.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Novelists, Fiction

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. November 17, 2009.

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• I never stay with people and I never look people up when I travel. I depend more on just chance meetings. The advantage is that people don't know who I am. I meet people casually and they're not doing me a big favor because I'm going to write something.

  Paul Theroux

  Writing, People, Looks

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I've spent my whole life trying to find out who I am, so I could express that through the music.

  Neil Diamond

  Trying, Whole Life, Whole

  "Neil Diamond Cuts Up". Interview with Richard Natale, articles.latimes.com. February 10, 2001.

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• My line is probably a little more conservative than some of my compatriots in the business. But again, I think it's all - like, it just - it comes down to me knowing who I am and knowing how I want to be seen in the world, how I want to discuss things.

  John Legend

  Thinking, Knowing, World

  "John Legend On Marriage, Music And 'Genius' Kanye West". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 31, 2013.

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• People see me as pretty low key in a lot of ways. And for me, like, even choosing to be John Legend and to be who I am as a star, as an artist, it's a risk 'cause I - you know, I graduated from college and worked as a management consultant, and I could have had this very kind of buttoned-up life and worn suits to work every day.

  John Legend

  Stars, Artist, College

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There are some people who know who I am but there are a lot of people that have no idea who I am - which is not to say that that's a bad thing.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Ideas, People, Knows

  "Jim Gaffigan Reveals Why He Did the $5 Download and the Risks That Came With It (Q&A)". Interview with Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 12, 2012.

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