Quotes About Identity

Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.

I remember, in middle school, I went to four different schools. That was a rough patch. But it's also what shaped me as a person.

I'm that person at school who always had a cold and an eye patch and asthma.

I was named after my paternal grandmother, my dadi. She died before I was born, which is why my parents named me Amy.

I'm not saying I'm a family guy, but maybe that's what people see in me: some kind of paternal quality.

It was always a goal of mine to go back to Cuba, where my paternal lineage comes from.

I don't really go down one path. I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist, or a Catholic or a Christian or a Muslim, or Jewish. I couldn't put myself into any organized faith.

I have come to an odd belief, which is that we don't make decisions so much as the decisions make us. The goal of a decision isn't just to find the path forward, but to become someone entirely different than who we might have been as a function of the path we take.

Country taught me how to sing, it put me on a path. But I was never going to be locked into a formula. I don't want to be considered a current country artist.

I mean I am not Hilary Duff. Like I have my own path that I'm going to go on.

The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have; I want my own path, my own sound, my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom, they want good business.

Look, nobody is ever exactly the same as anybody else. You're handed the cards you are for a particular reason, so you follow that path and see where it takes you.

I write for women because it's the only way I can use what I've experienced. It's good that people like what I write, but I don't want to go down the feminist path.

I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes.

I'm always a little passive and can come across as being pathetic.

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.

There have been a few times when I've read a script and it's really cool but the girl character's just kind of pathetic. It's not going to do me any favours just being 'the girl' in a cool movie.

There is an element in which anxiety co-represents with aspects of my personality I wouldn't want to give up. It allows you to have foresight. I may not be as empathetic. It's hard to figure out the difference between pathology and personality.

A noun is not a name you give something. It is something you watch becoming itself, and you have to have the patience to find out what it is.

I always wanted to play a mental patient. I was fascinated with playing crazy people in college, and I don't know if I ever quite perfected it.

Sexuality can be difficult to articulate, and we have to be patient and compassionate.

Sometimes the Knicks just need to be the Knicks. And not the New York Knicks. What I mean by that is that they're New York's team and everybody is going to be focused on that. But they should learn to pace themselves, set goals and be patient with what they're doing.

It took me a long time to be able to say I was a cancer patient. Then, for a long time, I was only that: A cancer patient.