Who I Am Quotes - Page 28

• I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut out of the same cloth. That's who I am; that's who I write about.

  August Wilson

  Art, Writing, Cutting

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• There's no reason why you can't say "August Wilson, playwright" even though all of my work, every single play, is about black Americans, about black American culture, about the black experience in America. I write about the black experience of men, or I write about black folks. That's who I am. In the same manner that Chekhov wrote about the Russians, I write about blacks. I couldn't do anything else. I wouldn't do anything else.

  August Wilson

  Writing, Men, August

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• In general, the few directors that I've worked with that I really respect have taught me a lot about who I am and they've opened me up as an actor. I want to take some of that to apply it to when I'm directing actors.

  Dave Franco

  Directors, Actors, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What I realized with Funny or Die is that I could take it into my own hands. On a much smaller scale, I think these videos are an accurate representation of who I am. As weird as they may be, I'm at least proud of them, and it showed that I do have a slightly different voice. I can't tell you how often people bring up these videos in interviews, and I'm so happy to talk about them because we created them from the ground up.

  Dave Franco

  Thinking, Hands, Voice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm grateful to have gone through so many different seasons of life because without those years of searching, I'd still have no idea who I am and what Andrew Ripp really has to say.

  Andrew Ripp

  Grateful, Years, Ideas

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• I've just decided that I have to continue to live my life and do what I do. Hopefully, people love me because of who I am, not who I pretend to be.

  Ashley Greene

  People, Living My Life, Hopefully

  Interview with Michael Sheen, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

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• It's funny because being comedic and happy and lighthearted is who I am as a person, so they're easier emotions for me to connect with. The challenge is accessing pain, angst, depression. . . It's more exciting because it gives me somewhere to go and allows me to tap into a part of myself that everyone can relate to.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Pain, Giving, Challenges

  "Behind-the-Scenes with Lindsay Lohan". Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2009.

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• Great actors who I want to work with-have such a misconception of who I am because of all the things that get said about me.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Actors, Want, Said

  Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2009.

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• There was a period where I dressed sort of like a mechanic and I looked really schlumpy, and I thought, "This is not who I am. This is not who I want to be." It was a very important moment for me - to not hide.

  Jeanine Tesori

  Important, Want, Moments

  "Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015.

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• I have never seen myself as leading for others. What's important is that I know who I am. Not completely. But I'm coming around third base.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Important, Thirds, Knows

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• When I was banned for nine months I had an opportunity to focus on something else and I needed to focus on something else. It's who I am. I admire Miles Davis and Chet Baker a lot and I like this instrument, so I tried and I learned and practised for two months. But I stopped after that.

  Eric Cantona

  Opportunity, Two, Focus

  "Looking For Eric - Eric Cantona interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• For me now, I feel that climbing is a part of who I am. It's my way of life. It's my way of expressing myself. My way of being in the world. In the past, I questioned it a lot. Now it's obvious. This is who I am. This is what I do.

  Chris Sharma

  Past, Climbing, World

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• Coming up with lectures is a huge amount of work. I was willing to do one lecture for Gresham because I was honored to have been invited, but to create lectures for a class would probably require that I shut down everything else and concentrate on lectures for a couple of years. Then there would be many, many other skills that I'd have to learn, such as how to sit through a faculty meeting, how to deal with students, etc. It is really not in the cards for me. It's not who I am or what I do. I'm a novelist.

  Neal Stephenson

  Couple, Years, Class

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I believe framing reality is one of the only ways we can ever be sure it actually exists. In that regard, I feel as though I'm still learning who I am as an artist.

  Sturgill Simpson

  Believe, Artist, Reality

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There's always sacrifices. My family don't generally say that they're related to me - my sister doesn't say she's my sister - because they don' t want to be judged or lauded based on who I am.

  Lucy Liu

  Sacrifice, Want, My Family

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• I wrote the book not to prove people wrong but just to get the insight on who I am as a person.

  Terrell Owens

  Book, People, Insight

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• I didn't want to write unless I could say, and think for myself. I looked to peers that I not only respected but those that supported that. I finished becoming who I am today by sticking up for myself as a voice, but that is in part thanks to the huge role the good guys I chose to work with played in my professional development. Some really terrific human beings who loved horror welcomed me with open arms.

  Karen Walton

  Writing, Thinking, Voice

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I bring the experiences of women. As a daughter, as a mother, as a wife, as a sister. That is who I am. Those experiences are part of me. And it is part of our American journey that we have moved through so much of what used to hold people back because of gender, because of race.

  Hillary Clinton

  Daughter, Mother, Journey

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• In an unhealthy way, I found a lot of validity in having always been a very good athlete, a very good baseball player, and I've since grown out of that place into a different perspective and learned how to live differently, thankfully, where baseball is certainly something that's very important to me. It's not who I am, though. It's just what I do.

  R.A. Dickey

  Baseball, Athlete, Player

  "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29, 2012.

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• Films don't decide my whole life. They are just a part of who I am. What I do in my personal life should be of no concern to the filmmakers or the fans.

  Kareena Kapoor

  Fans, Film, Should

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• It is true to say that for me sanctity consists in being myself and for you sanctity consists of being yourself and that, in the last analysis, your sanctity will never be mine and mine will never be yours, except in the communism of charity and grace. For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

  Thomas Merton

  Being Yourself, Mean, Grace

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• Celebrate me for who I am, dislike me for what I ain't (...) put me up on a pedestal or drag me down in the dirt (...) this is who I am, you can like ir or not, you can love me or leave me cuz I'm never gonna stop

  Madonna Ciccone

  Dislike Me, Pedestal, Irs

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• I don’t think it’s important who I am. I really like playing music, but I don’t really want to be anything in particular.

  Elliott Smith

  Thinking, Important, Playing Music

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• I am an actor. I am an artist. I am a daughter. I am a sister. I am a partner. I have a past that some people may not agree with, but it does not define who I am.

  Sasha Grey

  Daughter, Artist, Past

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• A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.

  Kareena Kapoor

  Heart, Men, Guy

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

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