Quotes About Individuality

I didn't start to collect records and listen to guitar players properly until I went to art school, when I'd already been playing for five years. So my style was already formed, and that's why I think it's so unique.

The thing about awards is that a lot of those moments are about the whole world telling you that you deserve it and rah, rah, rah. I'm very appreciative of that, but I love experiencing stuff by myself. Because it feels different. You know the truth, and you can hear what the voice in your head is saying properly.

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and eat sandwiches in the same canteen, if I can possibly help it, as I don't think I'd be very good at it.

Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.

I've always liked my clothes, even before I could properly afford them. Clothes for me were never a cloak, a cover. They were how I chose to express myself.

Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.

I just watched a James Brown video of him singing 'I Feel Good,' and then I kind of just copied off his moves. But I couldn't do them properly, so they turned into my own moves.

I like really, properly detailed, described characters.

Of course, who you are and what's inside your head is more important than how you look, but that isn't going to be nurtured properly if you don't feel comfortable in your own skin.

I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

Conor is not emulating me. He has to be his own man and learn his trade from the start. He will fight in the amateurs and then, if it works, the pros.

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.

As you get older, you realize you're only the protagonist in your own story and a blip in someone else's life.

In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays.

It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context.

I think women have every right to feel like they're the protagonists in their own stories.

I love a kind of shambling outsider protagonist who always feels like they're 'other.'

Oftentimes in films, the female character, if she's not the protagonist - and often, even if she is - feels like an imitation of what a woman is.

My thing is whether my film is small, I am still playing the protagonist.

My idea of freedom is that we should protect the rights of people to believe what their conscience dictates, but fight equally hard to protect people from having the beliefs of others imposed upon them.

Your voice matters, so protect it.

My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have between people on the planet is so important.