Quotes About Identity

In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.

In her verse, she says: 'It's me and Karol G, and we let the rats talk.' I died, I revived, I died and revived again until I understood Nicki Minaj had said my name in her verse.

In expressing so completely his own type, Mr. Yeats presents us with the case for integrity. If we can express eventually our own scholastic mentality in verse, I believe that our art will lead us not towards, but away from, English art.

But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.

Tra-la-las and doo-be-do's became a Neil Sedaka trademark. I was the king of the tra-la-las and doo-be-do's in the '50s and '60s. But then when I re-recorded 'Breaking Up,' I started with a verse instead of the doo-be-do's!

There was a lot of other people that had their own song or their name in a verse in high school. I was just like, 'To stamp my high school career, I gotta get my name in a song.'

I'm so proud to be an Asian and just knowing that if we think of something, we're gonna have the opportunity to be the best version of ourselves and be the best.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

As a stylist, my goal is to help people be the best version of themselves.

Don't try to be me. No one but me can be me. But you can be you. Look inside yourself and get to know who the real you is. And then be that person. The best version of you.

It's exhausting trying to impress someone and be a version of yourself that might be attractive to them.

I think I've claimed the right to be any version of me that I want to be.

I guess people feel like they kind of know me. The game developer me, or the Twitter persona, that's Notch. It's a censored version. The real me is Markus.

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.

Without God, for me, I'm not the best version of myself.

When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are.

Even though I'm a hairdresser and I love doing hair, I feel like I don't look like a groomer. When I think of how a groomer would look in relation to the first version of 'Queer Eye,' I feel like I don't fit in that box.

I am fine with 'Puppy Love.' I hated it for a while. But I still sing it. I have a country version, a sexy version and a cheesy nightclub version. I am trying to infuse it with maturity. I will never escape that song. I will always be Mr. 'Puppy Love.'

You get the older version of women that you've played before.

If I speak my version of Spanish in Spain, they laugh. Same with Mexico. It's an alien world to me.

My image has swallowed me up! I've given so much out to this projected version of myself, but now I have to live up to this character that I don't even associate half the time.

George Benson's 'This Masquerade' is my favorite version of Leon Russell's blue gem.

My mother was born in Burma, but my grandfather on her side was Indian-Spanish. So I have this quite exotic mix, which is reflected in my earliest memories, in our Wiltshire country kitchen, of gran, and aunts, cooking spicy stewy, casseroley curries, a version of Indian food with a Burmese twist.