Who I Am Quotes - Page 38

• I've always risen to the challenge and faced adversity; it's just a part of who I am.

  Erik Rutan

  Adversity, Challenges, Risen

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I didn't go and quit anything. I remained who I am, so I don't know if anybody wants to criticize. I'm still me.

  Reginald Arvizu

  Want, Quitting, Criticize

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• One person actually asked me to marry them! Overall all they have a great respect for me and they know who I am and I am very open about it. In Los Angeles, we actually had two screenings because so many people showed up!

  Tommy Wiseau

  Two, People, Los Angeles

  "The Room. Worst movie ever made?". Tribute Interview, www.tribute.ca. April 18, 2011.

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• I couldn't imagine someone playing me or writing a book about who I am. Although I let people write articles and try and express who I am, and it blows up wildly in my face.

  Jonah Hill

  Book, Writing, Blow

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

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• My assumption is I'm not going to be recognized. But when I am, I'm like, "Dang, you know who I am?" I always think I look so different.

  Danai Gurira

  Thinking, Different, Looks

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• I want you to know who I am: what the streets taste like, feel like, smell like. What the cops talk like, walk like, think like. What crackheads do - I wanted you to smell it, feel it. It was important to me that I told the story that way because I thought that it wouldn't be told if I didn't tell it.

  Nas

  Thinking, Smell, Important

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• For me, music is in no way ornamental or decorative, it's constitutive of who I am.

  Cornel West

  Way, Music Is

  "Cornel West, 'Living And Loving Out Loud'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 29, 2009.

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• Everyone's going to have a better time if I'm not confused on stage about who I am.

  Martina Sorbara

  Confused, Stage, Ifs

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I don't photograph anyone if I can't meet with them first because if I don't do that, then they're just going to the dentist and they're filled with fear. They don't know who I am.

  Carol Friedman

  Firsts, Dentist, Photograph

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.

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• I won't let others stoke fear in my heart. I choose to remain true to who I am and where my dreams direct me no matter the hardship I might incur. I remember it always: Fear wins or Freedom wins, and I choose Freedom.

  Brendon Burchard

  Dream, Heart, Winning

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• I grew up in a very religious family, so that was never going to leave me. I just accepted it over the years. Although I'm not religious myself, it is so much a part of me. It's a part of my history, a part of my tradition and my culture, so I don't want to just throw it away and leave it behind, because it's made me who I am today.

  Brendon Urie

  Religious, Years, Culture

  "Interview: Panic! At The Disco's Brendon Urie On His New Album, 'Death Of A Bachelor'". Interview with Pip Williams, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 22, 2016.

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• I try not to be protected. Because I feel like you can become a little bit of a robot. That's not who I am. And I don't want to be monotone. It's important to be yourself, whatever the cost.

  Serena Williams

  Being Yourself, Important, Trying

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• My dad and I had a real meeting of the minds. We loved to talk about music, politics, and art. He loved children. The thing I missed most about my dad when he died was that this person who really gets who I am at the core was gone.

  Rosanne Cash

  Art, Dad, Children

  Interview with Antonino D’Ambrosio, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 21, 2010.

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• I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.

  Ben Harper

  Children, Trying, Want

  "Interview: Ben Harper: Musician. Poet. Environmentalist. Activist. Prophet". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I would rather have 10 people working on a record that are really committed and believe in it and love it, than 50 people who have no idea who I am or what I'm for.

  DJ Shadow

  Believe, Ideas, People

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• Just be open, life is about a constant journey and I'm very spiritual, but I'm also in touch with what's going on around me and who I am, and you have to know yourself. So for me, that's what keeps me going is just being interactive.

  Ledisi

  Spiritual, Journey, Just Being

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• I think it was important for me to introduce myself as an artist for the first time because I'm very proud of my past, it's all a part of my story, but this is who I am now. This was a really important thing to have an hour special that lets them in and kind of meet me for the first time, truthfully.

  Jamie Lynn Spears

  Artist, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• I hope that they learn who I am today and embrace that as well. I think that's the biggest thing of really introducing myself to them. Hopefully that creates a stronger connection with the fans that I already have and hopefully helps me make some new fans.

  Jamie Lynn Spears

  Thinking, Stronger, Connections

  "Jamie Lynn Spears Is All Grown Up and Taking the Country Music Scene by Storm". Interview with Kelsie Gibson, www.popsugar.com. June 23, 2016.

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• I think unscripted variety television may or may not get a bad rap now, but it is a fabulous environment. It is exactly who I am, and there's so much creativity there to express.

  James Pearse Connelly

  Rap, Creativity, Thinking

  "What goes into designing The Biggest Loser's sets, stages, and chill rooms?". Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. June 27, 2016.

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• I just want to create amazing music that speaks and defines who I am. I want it to be based on my life and/or what I am going through at that specific time.

  Heather Headley

  Want, Speak, Amazing Music

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I was a 12 year old kid in Northern Idaho listening to Billie Holiday and Lena Horne and Sarah Vaughan and Nat King Cole. This whole genre of music is a part of who I am.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Kings, Holiday, Kids

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.

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• I had to fight hard for everything. I wanted to get out. I want to take my destiny into my own hands and escape the vicious cycle of retaliatory violence. This struggle has shaped who I am to this day.

  Paul Kagame

  Struggle, Fighting, Destiny

  "We Are Far from Exhausting Our Potential". Interview with Horand Knaup, www.spiegel.de. July 6, 2010.

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• I like to keep things as simple as possible, that's just part of who I am.

  Princess Tatiana of Greece and Denmark

  Simple

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• What I wanted with that Ruthless state of mind,: just to show people who I am as a person and why I do what I do, and why I go as hard as I do go.

  Ace Hood

  People, Mind, States

  Source: djbooth.net

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• Staying true to yourself and trusting your instincts is very important. I've learned this both through creating music, where I've always stayed focused on recording music that is true to who I am and to my fans, and through my recent health struggles, where I knew something more was going on than what I was hearing from different doctors; I had to trust myself and continue to pursue a diagnosis.

  Avril Lavigne

  Struggle, Doctors, Creating

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