Who I Am Quotes - Page 36

• Being in the presence of the "other" seems to show me who I am in a way that is really important to me. I feel radically more comfortable in Laos, say, than I do in Pennsylvania.

  Pam Houston

  Important, Pennsylvania, Laos

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The only really weird part for me was making sense of the person on the TV at the same time as the person who I am friendly with and do something so friend-intimate with as text.

  Erin McKeown

  Friendly, Tvs, Intimate

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I know my sound, and I have to be true to who I am as an artist, even though I want be real cool, and make really cool music.

  Brooke Fraser

  Real, Artist, Sound

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• I've always seen myself for who I am, which is a lot of things.

  Viola Davis

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Just the desire to play a mom, wanting to play someone actually closer to who I am and where I am in my life. People are used to seeing me play the single, hot girl, which has been fun, but at the same time, this role is more akin to my natural proclivities.

  Essence Atkins

  Girl, Mom, Fun

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I run into a lot of kids who are either on R&R, or on their way to Iraq. They all know who I am and are fans, but they're kids! I am yet to meet one that's over 23. Yet they're full-time warriors.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Running, Kids, Warrior

  Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com. 2006.

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• When you do the first season, you're putting your life out there and you're kind of hesitant about it, and then by the time you get around to the second season, you don't care. It's like, "This is who I am - like it, accept it, or don't." There are so many misconceptions that now they can see who I am.

  LaToya Jackson

  Care, Firsts, Kind

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• There are a lot of parts of who I am that no one in the public has ever known, but the older I've gotten, the more I've appreciated my own strange little self and come to terms with that.

  Patricia Arquette

  Self, Littles, Strange

  "Patricia Arquette: On Boyhood, Motherhood, and Womanhood". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• But that would put me on a path that would make me totally divergent from who I am. I don't have to go through the heartache many other people go through, of figuring out what makes them "wealthy." I know what brings me joy.

  Ben Sollee

  Heart, People, Joy

  "Ben Sollee Interview | Activism by cello? On a bike?". Interview with Amanda Taylor, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The reason I make art is because I get to make a choice about who I am, what I do, and what I put out into the world, the footsteps I leave behind. It's a cliché for a reason - we all kind of work our own paths through the woods. There are not a lot of paths through the woods for someone who sings, plays the cello, and wants to tour on a human scale and create change in the world. I'm on my own path. It's pretty awesome.

  Ben Sollee

  Art, Play, Choices

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• I was attached to star in a project that was going to be an unbelievable character piece, to be showcased all over the world. It was everything I had been working toward and had suffered for. I had two months to prep and pretty much bankrupted myself in the process. A week before I was supposed to get on the plane, the whole project fell apart. Not only did it leave me completely broke and out of work, but I felt as if I had been betrayed by acting. Acting is not just something I love but a part of who I am. I was shattered. Thankfully, the love of those around me helped push me forward.

  Jonathan Keltz

  Stars, Character, Two

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• When I meet girls, I pray that they don't know who I am. But I know that's limiting myself quite a lot.

  Douglas Booth

  Girl, Praying, Knows

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I'm just being who I am and expressing myself as everyone else does.

  Erykah Badu

  Doe, Just Being

  Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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• I get that some people just want to do work and keep their lives private. I think for me, it just felt like I needed to be open about who I am. It just felt like the right thing for me to do.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Thinking, People, Want

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• People just - they don't really know me. They see me on "The Simple Life," they think that's really who I am.

  Paris Hilton

  Simple, Thinking, People

  "Paris Hilton: 'I think I am a good role model'". "Today" with Ann Curry, www.today.com. August 17, 2006.

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• Well, it hurts my feelings because the person that I read about sometimes in these gossip magazines is not the person who I am. So I don't want, you know, my fans to think that's how I am.

  Paris Hilton

  Hurt, Thinking, Gossip

  "Paris Hilton: 'I think I am a good role model'". "Today" with Ann Curry, www.today.com. August 17, 2006.

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• I'm comfortable in the way I play and comfortable in who I am.

  Andrew Flintoff

  Play, Way, Comfortable

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Autism's an important part of who I am, but I'm a college professor and an animal scientist first. And I wouldn't want to change 'cause I like the logical way I think.

  Temple Grandin

  College, Thinking, Animal

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

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• I believe that whether one believes in God or not is - it's very central to who I am.

  Susan Jacoby

  Believe, I Believe, Believe In God

  "'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of Secularism And Conversion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 17, 2016.

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• I'm not saying that I think atheists are better than other people. God, no. What I am saying is I do feel that this an integral part of who I am. And it's not something that I could comfortably think of not sharing with the person I loved most in the world.

  Susan Jacoby

  Atheist, Thinking, People

  "'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of Secularism And Conversion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 17, 2016.

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• I put myself on tape and the cool thing was that Martin Scorsese had never heard of me. He had never seen [Everybody Loves Raymond]. I was just an unknown actor to him. I don't want to sound conceited, like he has to know who I am, but that seemed a little odd. He's a film genius. He doesn't watch sitcoms.

  Ray Romano

  Conceited, Sound, Watches

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm at a place in my life where I do finally feel, at least most of the time, that I know who I am and I'm comfortable with the person that I am.

  Aaron Tveit

  Feels, Persons, Knows

  Source: collider.com

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• The only thing I have going on at a personal level is just the way I knew I was gay and I knew what that meant inside me, but the gender aspect of who I am came later.

  Amy Ray

  Gay, Levels, Way

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• My agent came to me with a deal from another publisher and I signed a deal and got the advance with no idea of what I was going to do. I probably procrastinated for almost a year, but we had meetings and I was basically going to spoof "Take Ivy," but then it kind of turned into something else. I wanted it to be a book of all the things that made me who I am, like Brooks Brothers, Hot Wheels, "The Andy Griffith Show" and G.I. Joes. I couldn't sit still and do it, so my agent had to come to my house and force me to do it.

  Mark McNairy

  Brother, Book, Years

  Source: wwd.com

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• I'm not out here on the front lines trying to create clones, or consumers, or worshippers of who I am, and what I do. I'm trying to nurture the idea that you should do your own thing, which is really powerful.

  Mike Vallely

  Powerful, Ideas, Trying

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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