Quotes About Self-discovery

It's taken me a long time to appreciate that my intelligence is greater than what I was told and that I am very creative, and I see in pictures.

For a while after the rape, I was afraid of my own sexuality, because I got raped right about the time when I started developing physically.

What are you, child, that you need time to learn about yourself?

Examine everything that you've been taught, not simply what you've been taught in school, but the images that have been held up to you since the time of your birth.

After spending some time with my soul mate I have come to the conclusion that I may have something wrong with my soul

The main downside was that it [fame] happened so quickly and I didn't have time to establish what kind of person I wanted to be.

You have to get to know your voice and its strengths and play on those. It took me quite a long time.

A man who has to go to the village to get the news hasn't heard from himself in a long time.

Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there.

The interesting thing about doing press is that I learn what the album is about - I now know, a year later, looking back, what was on my mind at the time.

There's just an enormous vast universe of possible intrigue out there and why not pay attention to it? Because then you're not burdened with trying to find that meaning in yourself all the time.

Things that I'm afraid to do are always about being afraid of being exposed. Every time, that's what it's always about.

You can't shape me anymore. I am the uncontrolled element, the random act. I am forward movement in time. You think you can see me? Then tell me, who am I? You don't know.

Writing an autobiography, usually thought of as a looking back, can just as well be a looking across or through, with the passing of time giving an X-ray quality to the eye.

I had a hard time in middle school. I was never really quite me until I was 16 or 17, and things like bullying didn't matter anymore.

I lost my way for a long time.

Maybe I'll have something out by Christmas, maybe not. I don't know, I'm really trying to take my time and do what feels right. (about the next step in her music career)

It's time for you to know who you are

I was a very good girl for a long time, that's what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to be outrageous, to be sad, to be angry, to be all these different things.

I thought that I wasn't an essayist because I just didn't see myself in a lot of the essays that were popular at the time. That's why I joined the poetry program in grad school.

As frustrating as my time in grad school felt, it also helped tremendously because it challenged me to figure out what it was I thought I wanted.

The unfolding code of what you really are occurs every time you go to sleep.

It can take a long time for some people to find out how to ground themselves, and film sets are an odd atmosphere to do it in - especially if, like me, you finished school early.

I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you.