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“My agent pointed out one day that I had been quoted by a columnist in some American newspaper, and he noted with some glee that they simply identified me by name without reminding people who I was, apparently in the clear expectation that their readers would know who I am.”

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“Charisma, that's my strong point. My personality was always good, but with music I had to grow into it. I grew into who I am now.”

Strong Grows Grew Personality Who I Am Charisma

Author:Schoolboy Q

“As I have continued to make music and progress as an artist, I think I am steadily getting better at expanding my lyrical content and defining who I am as an artist.”

Thinking Artist Progress Who I Am Get Better Expanding Defining Lyrical

Author:Mike Stud

“The only reason we write - well, the only reason why I write; maybe I shouldn't generalize - is so that I can find out something about myself. Writers have this narcissistic obsession about how we got to be who we are. I have to understand my ancestors - my father, his mother and her mother - to understand who I am. It all leads back to the narcissistic pleasure of discovering yourself.”

Writing Wells I Can Reason Mother Father Pleasure Who I Am Obsession Reason Why Who We Are Ancestor Discovering Narcissistic Discovering Yourself

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“I don't have to perform to stay in the public eye anymore. I really don't. I am who I am and what I do on musical stage these days really makes no difference at all. I already have all the momentum there. I am only doing it because I love to do it.”

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Author:Neil Young

“I don't write the same book over and over - I think if I did that, I would stop writing. I couldn't write a series with the same character, and I couldn't write a romance novel over and over again that takes place at a different beach every year. That's not who I am.”

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Author:Jodi Picoult

“Hoodie was just a nickname I had growing up and I just wanted to have a name that would stick in peoples' minds and be a little bit funny and representative of who I am.”

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Author:Hoodie Allen

“My goal is to let people see who I am as a person, not just a basketball player. Many people see athletes in a certain way - flat and one dimensional. I want to change that view.”

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Author:Blake Griffin

“When I got a record deal I said, 'I'm only wearing jeans. I'm not wearing frilly dresses.' Dancing around in sequins is just not who I am. I wanted to be heard, not seen.”

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Author:Miranda Lambert

“To hear an artist be transparent is one of the greatest things they could ever do for their fans. I love that, when I see my fans on the road we have real conversations and it's not even that I do it as some big ploy to have album sales. I do it because it's important for them to understand who I am. So, whatever backlash comes along with me being transparent, there's nothing I can do about it.”

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Author:Sevyn Streeter

“There is more in a human life than our theories of it allow. Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path. You may remember this "something" as a signal moment in childhood when an urge out of nowhere, a fascination, a peculiar turn of events struck like an annunciation: This is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.”

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Author:James Hillman

“I can honestly tell you that without God I would not be who I am today. He has done such an amazing work in my life and I want everyone to have the same freedom.”

Want I Can Done Today Honestly Who I Am Without God Amazing Work

Author:Joyce Meyer

“If I point to anything that makes me who I am, it's that I have a whole lot of common sense. I've got a good mind and a good ability to read people and situations.”

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Author:Michelle Obama

“I just realized that I'm just going to be who I am. I don't need to adjust how I look for anyone or even for myself. Even if I have a pimple, I'm not going to cover it up with makeup.”

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Author:Charlyne Yi

“I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day - from fall, to winter, to spring. I went from football to basketball to track and it started all over again. I loved all of it. I just loved being an athlete and all that it entailed. It really accounts for who I am.”

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Author:Terry Crews

“I really don't have no regrets. I think that where I am in the stage of my career and in my life made me who I am today.”

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Author:Kurupt

“You have to evolve and change but you're always gonna get that street edge out of my music regardless. That's who I am. That's in me and that ain't gon' never go away.”

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Author:Freddie Gibbs

“I am 100% there when I'm doing what I'm doing when I'm onstage and recording. I don't ever want to look back at any moment and say to myself that I felt uncomfortable with who I am.”

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Author:Nneka

“I never liked to be pigeon-holed and I never liked people to think that they know who I am. I like to keep people guessing.”

People Thinking Knows Who I Am Guessing Pigeons

Author:A. J. Cook

“I feel like a big thing is faith - to never lose my faith and to always stay true to who I am and to never be afraid to show who I am. I think the biggest thing is: Don't ever hide anything.”

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Author:Bailee Madison

“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.”

Whole Taken Identity Who I Am Injured Cycling Away From You

Author:Magnus Backstedt

“I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious personal opinion, so I'm motivated by many many things and, certainly, not by the need or desire to satisfy other people's ideas of who I am.”

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Author:Ken Hensley

“I wish I could be someone that is more in the moment. There's a benefit to being who I am because I get things done, but I probably don't need to be in my own head all the time because it's intense in there.”

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Author:Steve Grand

“I'm here today because of LSD. LSD gave me the confidence to be who I am today. Completely.”

Today Who I Am Lsd

Author:John Waters

“People don't know who I am, and that's not a bad thing at all from my end.”

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Author:Ben Mendelsohn

“At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.”

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Author:Taraji P. Henson

“The only thing that you can do is do jobs and see if people respond to that. I'm always holding onto the fact that I don't really know who I am. Hopefully I won't compartmentalize myself because of that, because I'm completely ignorant of the whole.”

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Author:Robert Pattinson

“I think my parents gave me a unique name and I have created this unique lifestyle that makes me who I am; it's a cool way of living.”

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Author:Urijah Faber

“I hate to lose but having the belt doesn't define who I am. It's how I live my life and what I put into things is what defines me.”

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Author:Urijah Faber

“As a woman of color you have little more permission to go deeper and question things because your identity, in a way, is a shield. But if you come at it from a minority status, my person, who I am, softens the blow of whatever it is that I'm saying, because I am that.”

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Author:Margaret Cho

“I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.”

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Author:Paul Auster

“I used to think that one day I'd be able to resolve the different drives I have in different directions, the tensions between the different people I am. Now I realize that is who I am. I do feel I'm getting closer to the song in my head. I wasn't looking for grace. But luckily grace was looking for me.”

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Author:Edward de Bono

“I had no interest in drinking in moderation. And I still don't. Just because all that time's passed doesn't mean maybe it was just a phase. That's you know, that's who I am.”

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Author:Mat Hoffman

“I'm reminded of who I am, who I was, and who I'm supposed to be.”

Who I Am Supposed To Be

Author:Chris Evans

“When there's trouble I don't like running, but I'm afraid I got more in common with who I was, than who I am becoming”

Running Common Trouble Becoming Who I Am

Author:David Berman

“I am who I am because of Dave Matthews Band”

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Author:John Mayer

“When things are not working for us, instead of fighting and struggling, we need to say, "What's happening here? How am I not being true to who I am? What is pulling me away from my purpose?"”

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Author:June Singer

“Dating has taught me what I want and don't want, who I am, and who I want to be.”

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Author:Jennifer Love Hewitt

“I'm pretty happy with who I am. I like myself and what I'm doing. I don't need to be the world's greatest director or the most famous -- or the richest. I don't need to make a whole lot of great films. I can do my job and I can do it pretty well. This is the realization I've come to, later in life. It's called growing up.”

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Author:John Carpenter

“If the Loki in 'Thor' was about a spiritual confusion - 'Who am I? How do I belong in this world?' - the Loki in 'Avengers' is, 'I know exactly who I am, and I'm going to make this world belong to me.'”

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Author:Tom Hiddleston

“Who I am in Christ is amazing. Who Christ is in me is the real story. It is beyond amazing.”

Real Stories Christ Who I Am Real Story

Author:Bill Johnson

“I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.”

Pleasure Rewards Who I Am Occupation

Author:Richard Powers

“I don't really know who I am as an actor: the best thing would be to experiment with it for the next 30 years and never really find out.”

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Author:Ben Barnes

“I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives. And I can go anywhere. No one knows who I am.”

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Author:Jason Isaacs

“I can't go against my nature because I am what I am. I don't try to be anyone different to who I am.”

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Author:Brian McDermott

“I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' And I have to say, it was the single biggest step I took toward emotional well-being, to stop feeling like I had to hide who I am.”

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Author:Alan Ball

“I deal with certain things in my work because of who I am. I make work in order to make people think.”

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Author:Steve McQueen

“I know who I am, how I was. I don't want to know how I will be because nobody knows that.”

Knows Want Know How Who I Am Nobody Knows

Author:Catherine Deneuve

“When I stay focused and honest about who I am and the image that I hope to portray, then I won't find myself stranded in unfamiliar territory chasing money or popularity. If the work that you do is quality, then you'll be rewarded. It's also good to stretch musically within the realm of your ability, but not if it compromises your integrity.”

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Author:Oleta Adams

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