Quotes About Identity

What I have learned in my life and work is that the more I am able to be myself, the more it enables other people to be themselves.

Turks have a dismissive phrase: he works like a clerk. I have turned this insult around: I am proud to say that I work like a clerk.

There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well.

I don't want to discount the beautiful work that the fashion houses do, but somehow, just focusing on what you're wearing feels reductive.

I can work inside the boundaries of Erika Murphy, or whoever the character is. It's fun to create somebody that's not you, that doesn't exist.

I'm taking time to figure out where I want to go and what I want to do next. In this line of work, you become so defined by your job.

Culturally, it is commonplace for African women to work.

What was transformative was being at the inauguration, reading my poem, and realizing that the quest for home and identity had always been part of my work, but that I'd been home all along.

First of all, if you're setting up a new company, you want to try to find a brand that can work on a global basis.

Sometimes I wonder why the corporate world is seen as a god choice for those of us that will never rise above clerical work and general administration.

The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.

I'm a man without a corporation.

If you miss someone too much you turn into them... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church.

People don't understand what term "selling out" means. To me selling out means if I were to stop doing this and go work for McDonald's then I would sell out.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

[My work] is a love song to our mongrel selves.

Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.

I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy.

I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.

When I got to Hollywood, at first I couldn't get a lot of jobs. So I grew a beard and look like a really bad Arab, and I started to get a lot of work because that's what they want.

I hated my work. It never seemed to me to be what I should be doing.

We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me.

Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves.