Quotes About Self

Nothing can affect my voice, it's so bad.

People are so scared to really voice who they are. They want to be politically correct. Just scared to see what other people's perceptions are.

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.

I could read music and sing all the right notes at the right time. And over time, I literally found my voice, found a way to make sound.

I didn't have to express myself to anybody; I would just sing. And most of the times, when I initially used to sing, I used to get scared of my own voice.

I fell in love with my voice. I had something inside of me that was like, 'I like this.'

We can change the world if we change ourselves. We just need to get hold of the old patterns of thinking and dealing with things and start listening to our inner voices and trusting our own superpowers.

I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. It's not contrived.

The Brightest Void' gives more than a first taste of 'The Shadow Self;' it is a full album filled with nine songs!

I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.

Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.

If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it'd be a travesty.

I'm bicultural, and everyone sees me as a Latina, but in my head I see myself as both Latina and American.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

I worry about my kids growing up and how the world might hurt them. But at the same time, I absolutely do not worry about them growing up - because they have great values and a great sense of self.

You have to find out who you are aside from what the media say you are. If you've become reliant on them for kind of a sense of self, then you're really screwed.

I like my smart-aleck self.

Everyone has a private self and a public self.

I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name.

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

Having a self, even a simple self, allows you to look into the world and put a mark over what is more important and less important. It's a way of classifying the world in terms of your own needs.

College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development.

I think there's a natural link between the fact that our self is a story that we make up and that we're drawn to stories. It resonates, in a way.

The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self.