Top 15 Quotes About This Is Who I Am
#1. Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe you can learn something from it.
Jeannette Walls
#2. Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that's fine because that's public domain. I know exactly what I'm doing when I post something on Twitter; in a way, it's saying, 'This is who I am, and I don't have anything to hide.'
Samuel Barnett
#3. You don't make a decision about being a writer. There was a point, aged 21, when it became clear that this is who I am. The choice is how good you are going to be at it and how hard you are going to work.
Philipp Meyer
#4. I do what I have to do to survive because that's all I know. I don't make excuses, I own it. This is me, this is who I am, this is my life. It shames me but not enough to stop.
Karina Halle
#5. Each and every one of them had the courage to say, This is who I am even if you'll crucify me for it.
Cheryl Strayed
#6. I've always been this way. This is who I am. Take it or leave it. You'll either hate me or you'll love me. I have a strong personality which isn't necessarily good or bad. I really don't mind what people in Oklahoma who I don't know think of me. I really only care about the people in my life.
Heidi Montag
#7. Once I looked in the mirror and decided this is who I am, and I'm not scared of who I am, and I'm not scared that I can't be like you, and I'm good with just doing me, that's when I found myself, as a man.
Kendrick Lamar
#8. For your information, I'm staying like this, and everyone else can just get used to it! If people don't like me the way I am, well TOUGH BEANS! It's a free country! I don't need anyone's permission to be the way I want! This is who I am - Take it or leave it!
Bill Watterson
#9. Love it or hate it, this is me, this is who I am!
Nicki Minaj
#10. It is his absence that is part of me and has been for years. This is who I am, perhaps who we all are, keepers of the absent and the dead. It is the blessing and burden of being alive.
Camilla Gibb
#11. I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
Abby Wambach
#12. Food to me, in one word, is 'creativity' or 'expression.' It's simply, 'This is who I am at this point in time, and this is what I want to cook for you.'
Graham Elliot
#13. The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.
Geri Halliwell
#14. Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together.
David Guterson
#15. I Know not everyone will like me, but this is who I am So if you don't like it, Tough!
Britney Spears
#16. Reach out, share your truth, tell someone, "This is who I am. This is what I stand for. Hold me to it." Often, we'll do far more for another than we will do for ourselves.
Kamal Ravikant
#17. I think I've been incredibly raw my whole career. A lot of people spend a lot of time trying to look cool and spend time being guarded and putting up walls. I just never had the time. It seems more honest to say, 'Hey, this is who I am.'
Ryan Adams
#18. There were different moments where I was like, "Okay, this is who I am today." But, when I'm kept on my toes, I'm having the best time of my life.
Julie Gonzalo
#19. I don't know any other way. Anastasia. This is who I am.
E.L. James
#20. What is it with you and time capsules?"
"I like the idea of a permanent record," he explains. "Something to say, This Is Who I Am, even when I'm not that person anymore...
Harriet Reuter Hapgood
#21. It took a while to grow the confidence to say, 'This is who I am, take it or leave it.'
Coco Rocha
#22. Why do you have to take every good thing we try to give you and break it into pieces?" Nico said. "You let them turn you into this ... "
"This is who I am," Clancy snapped. "I won't let them change me. I won't let them touch me. Not again.
Alexandra Bracken
#23. You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This is me, this is what I stand for, this is what you get when you read me. I'm doing the best I can - buy me or not - but this is who I am as a writer.
David Morrell
#24. But I have long loved the written word, and come to see in it the power of the sleeping lion. This is my name. This is who I am. This is how I got here. In the absence of an audience, I will write down my story so that it waits like a restful beast with lungs breathing and heart beating.
Lawrence Hill
#25. Sweet and savory, it was the honey of our existence, DNA with the message: This is who I am.
Atom Yang
#26. I'm a picture without a frame. A poem without a rhyme. A car with three wheels. A sun without fire. I am a gun without bullets. I am the truth without someone to hear it. I am a feeling without someone to feel it. This is who I am. A mess without you. Something beautiful with you.
Pleasefindthis
#27. Women do well in their thirties. They put their bags down and say, 'This is who I am - like it or lump it.' There is a more relaxed quality, which I like.
Kelly Reilly
#28. This is who I am. Accept it or not. The tattoos won't wash off, the earrings will never change. I am who I am and nothing more. I am loyal to a chosen few, I always keep my word and I'll protect you with my life.
Katie McGarry
#29. I may not believe in sin," he said, "but I do feel guilt. We Shadowhunters live by a code, and that code isn't flexible. Honor, fault, penance, those are real to us, and they have nothing to do with religion and everything to do with who we are. This is who I am, Clary," he said desperately.
Cassandra Clare
#30. When you write or sing a song that means something to you, you are saying, 'You know what? This is who I am!'
Miley Cyrus
#31. Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path ... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.
James Hillman
#32. I'm finally ready to own my own power, to say, "This is who I am." If you like it, you like it. And if you don't like it, you don't. So watch out; I'm gonna fly.
Oprah Winfrey
#33. Aren't autobiographies born in a question we ask ourselves: how did I get to this point? Don't we look back over the path and tell ourselves a story? This is how it happened. This is who I am.
Frederick Weisel
#34. It changed. I changed. It's been years since I felt that way. This is who I am. Being a Guardian - being your Guardian - it's important to me
Bethany Frenette
#35. For me, I wanted somebody that got me musically, that understood that I'm an artist and this is who I am. I'm not going to be like another artist on your label, probably - hopefully. I found all those things with the Broken Bow group.
Joe Nichols
#36. Celebrate me for who I am, dislike me for what I ain't ( ... ) put me up on a pedestal or drag me down in the dirt ( ... ) this is who I am, you can like ir or not, you can love me or leave me cuz I'm never gonna stop
Madonna Ciccone
#37. This is who I am. I'm not perfect. I don't want to try to be perfect.
Michael Strahan
#38. I try never to compare myself to other people. I just think this is who I am. You are happier when you think that way.
Jesy Nelson
#39. It's not a light matter to me. I've fought for so long to hold on to what I believe in. People call me weird or disgusting...but this is who I am! This is how I feel most like myself!
Hiro Fujiwara
#40. One could get locked in by the Pulitzer, thinking, 'This is who I am.' Doors open with it, but doors in your mind could close.
Suzan-Lori Parks
#41. I have to live in the truth that this is who I am. That's what I need to focus on.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
#42. This is who I am.
A fighter.
A guardian.
Stronger than the Stormers.
Stronger than Vane.
Beyond all emotion.
I don't give in to fear or pity or love. I'm the one in control.
Shannon Messenger
#43. You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that's OK.
Phil McGraw
#44. It's not like we grew up hanging around in church every day. We'll always stick to what we feel is right for us to do, and I don't think either of us have had a hard time saying, 'This is who I am, and I'm fine with it.'
Josh Dun
#45. When you write a book there are no more pretenses or facades to hide behind. It is very liberating to proclaim "this is who I am.
Jonathan Heatt
#46. I'm in love with God and God's in love with me, this is who I am and this is who I'll be and that settles it. Completely.
Misty Edwards
#47. I'm not a cheerleader. I'm not trying to pretend to be sweet and then come out and be bad. This is who I am.
Willa Ford
#48. I think it's sexy when someone makes a statement that says, 'This is who I am. This is what I think is sexy.'
Carmen Electra
#49. I have no interest in saying "This is who I am! This is what I'm like!"
Jen Kirkman
#50. I think I cry because it always strikes me as sacred, all those people going by. People who decided simply to live their truth, even when doing so wasn't simple. Each and every one of them had the courage to say, This is who I am even if you'll crucify me.
Just like Jesus did.
Cheryl Strayed
#51. For me now, I feel that climbing is a part of who I am. It's my way of life. It's my way of expressing myself. My way of being in the world. In the past, I questioned it a lot. Now it's obvious. This is who I am. This is what I do.
Chris Sharma
#52. I know who we are, and how we got that way. We are writers. We danced with the words, as children, in what became familiar patterns. The words became our friends and our companions, and without even saying it aloud, a thought danced with them: I can do this. This is who I am.
Anna Quindlen
#53. I was fine being in the closet at the beginning of my career because that's what you were supposed to be - until I realized that it didn't serve anybody, and I was left feeling utterly empty. This is who I am, so I've gotta be me.
Billy Porter
#54. Everybody has their story - at some point you have to say, 'This is who I am: Now it's up to me to become what I want to be.'
Monica Seles
#55. For most of my life, I've felt that there must be more to our existence than meets the eye.
This is who I am, and you can't expect me to be someone I'm not.
Steve Jobs
#56. I was wrong. My enemy is not a beguiler, but a revealer. She brings out of us all the awful feelings that we have hidden away. And makes them manifest. So I know now that this is who I am. Might. Shame. Rage. And now they know, too.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#57. This is who I am. I am loving but wounded, and I need someone to take me as I am.
Luis Carlos Montalvan
#58. This is who I am. This is who I have always been. I am in pain. I am always in pain. But I always find my way to the story. And I always find my way home.
Sherman Alexie
#59. Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.
Mark Hoppus
#60. This is who I am
Escapist
Paradise Seeker
Farewell, time to fly
Out of sight
Out of time
Away from all lies
Tuomas Holopainen
#61. I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I should lose my accent, and part of me thinks, 'How dare you! This is who I am! Millions of people want to sound like me!' But it's sensitive, and I have tried to change it, with little to no success.
Jack McBrayer
#62. I was once afraid of people saying, "Who does she think she is?" Now I have the courage to stand and say, "This is who I am.
Oprah Winfrey
#63. To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.
Joey Ramone
#64. Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!
Annette Bening
#65. It's up to each of us to get very still and say, 'This is who I am.' No one else defines your life. Only you do.
Oprah Winfrey
#66. This is who I am, Sara. I will protect you from everything and everyone else, but I can't protect you from who I am or who we will be if you stay with me.
Lisa Renee Jones
#67. This is who I am. Not everybody has to like it.
Lisa Kudrow
#68. For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, 'This is me. I'm not proud of it - in fact, I'm a little embarrassed by it - but this is who I am.
Bill Hybels
#69. You've got to understand that in Bollywood, every actor is an instrument, and yet a human being. They come to the set with a set agenda, believing, 'This is who I am, this is what I want, and no, I am not going to become that character you want me to.'
Mira Nair
#71. Nature will teach us many lessons if we take the time to visit her classroom.
Donald L. Hicks
#72. it's a misconception that book sellers look after books, they look after people.
Nina George
#73. Muscle, had goggled him and muzzled him - goggled his mind, muzzled his speech, goggled his perception, muzzled his protest.
John Steinbeck
#74. I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to the stars, but learning that one may stay where one is.
Peter De Vries
#75. Everyone wanted security, but first they wanted to feel more threatened.
Goncalo M. Tavares
#76. We're not even supposed to have a break in August if we have not passed the appropriations bills. It's in the House rules.
Dan Webster
#78. The Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#79. I guess I'm still single because I didn't forward that Dalai Lama chain message some years back
Subhasis Das
#80. Assuming you can write clear English sentences, give up all worry about communication. If you want to communicate, use the telephone.
Richard Hugo
#81. President Obama has shown he has the vision to support average consumers and taxpayers.
Austin Ligon
#82. There was a period of time where people felt like women in the show were being exploited a little.
Nathalie Emmanuel
#84. The tears in my eyes are now running down my cheeks at the thought that I have been his wife and his bedfellow, his companion and his duchess, and even now, though he is near to death, still he does not love me. He has never loved me. He never will love me.
Philippa Gregory
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