Quotes About Individuality

A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are.

People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.

It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.

They say that a director always makes the same film. I try to make, as François Truffaut said, the next film in opposition to the one that came before. I'm not sure if I succeed. To put it another way, I agree with the auteur theory, but I don't consider myself an auteur. I'm more of an artisan, a craftsman.

I feel completely alone - it's like melting, I am the structure, and I am also Alain Robert.

Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.

I wish I could jump like that," he thought. "Some can and some can't. That's how it is.

The man who follows the crowd will get no farther than the crowd. A man who walks alone is likely to get places no one has ever been before.

A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot." [ Baffled at a Bookcase ( London Review of Books , Vol. 33 No. 15, 28 July 2011)]

Be who you like as long as you mean it.

Here my advice to young gay person or actor its to be yourself and not to be pressured into what other people want you to be

For yes, being a woman, even one with a penis and for the purposes of drama, really made me feel that women have been coerced into a way of presenting themselves that is basically a form of bondage. Their shoes, their skirts, even their nails seem designed to stop them from being able to escape whilst at the same time drawing attention to their sexual and secondary sexual characteristics.

I have come to realise that no one sees the world quite the way you do. Even with a great deal of shared experience there is always a shift of a few degrees in perspective, and no one's pain is ever the same as yours.

I looked up at the rack of magazines on the wall. There was a handsome man on the cover of one, smartly dressed in a shiny grey suit, striking a dynamic pose. It was an appealing image, but I didn't want to be like him, I didn't want a change of life. I've never not wanted to be me.

She finally managed to free her fingers from his. "I know how to run without you holding my hand!

If poetry is a circus, then the Big Tent we're under has to have room for a lot of different freak shows.

The peer feedback she gives them is, Look in the mirror. I've got to tell you, you are not what Hitler meant by a master race.

We made ourselves more acceptable to others in a variety of ways. Perhaps you learned that you could win approval by becoming more sensitive than the other boys. Maybe you learned that you could win approval by displaying a creativity that the other boys refused to show, or you learned to win approval by excelling at everything you did.

Como el señor Keats, el poeta, convertiría el vagar sola y pálida en virtud. Tendría que hacerse alguien, y no la esposa de alguien

Y había decidido que Persia, la misteriosa y exótica Persia, era el sitio donde se convertiría en alguien, donde haría que la sociedad valorará su diferencia y no la excluyera por ella

Every person should be free to read whatever they want, whenever they want, and not have to explain to anyone else why we like it, or why we think it's valuable. I hope you all get a chance to read my books someday.

Civilization is the encouragement of differences. — Mahatma Gandhi

All families are silly in their own way.

Ricky clearly never hurried, he was his own lazy happening.