I’m convinced that if we don’t define ourselves, other people will do it for us, and inaccurately.
Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.
I think, personally, it’s our flaws that define us to us – or maybe it’s just me.
Usually everyone fast is young. But I don’t let age define my ability and drive to be the best I can.
Our national purpose, not our party differences, must define the American Brand. We must change the conversation from one centered around what defines our differences to one that hangs a lantern on what binds us, supports our collective well being and makes us all stronger and more productive as a result.
I couldn’t define my style; that’s impossible. I like comfort and elegance with a bit of glamour thrown in. If I like something, I’ll wear it for years.
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
Well, I feel that the pursuit of trying to know who God is, and trying to be known by God, can be lost in religion. Because religion, all that it is, is man’s attempt to try to put a definition on something that is very hard to define.
I think one’s sexuality can be the center of life, and coming out and discovering your sexuality is something that really can define your existence.
There are issues that shape every generation and define every age. Climate change is just such an issue and our political generation has got to deal with it.
Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don’t want to be told how to define my future.
I always told myself I will never let football define who I am; I would only let in enhance who I am.
As I’ve progressed in my career, I’ve come to appreciate – and really value – the other attributes that define a company’s success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making.
Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It’s not hard. Character is doing what’s right when nobody’s looking.
When my father left us, my mother went back to school immediately. She went to school in the day while we were at school, and she worked at night. She worked very hard to never let someone define her as a victim or a failure.
I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.
I have lived life enough to know that I define myself.
Twitter, it can be said, completely changed the way activism is done, who can participate, and even how we define it.
My race was never an issue in my life until C and I got engaged, after that, no one could stop talking about it. I pray for the day when it becomes less remarkable because race does not define you.
The bikini scenes in ‘Billa’ were vital because they showed me as a seductress. I’d like to say here that outfits define a character and help an actor, say, 30 per cent, the rest depends on one’s histrionic skills.
To say someone is the greatest, I just don’t want championships to define that greatness. Because under that theory, Robert Horry is one of the five or six best basketball players ever – he has seven championship rings. We know that not to be true.
Men are born privileged in the scale of things – I’m generalizing, but it’s true. Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that will pretend that there is no fight or no battle, that it’s a cliche, that feminists are reactionary, all these things.
Be kind to yourself and take the time you need to define your gender and sexuality in a way that feels safe and right for you.
When we have been badly injured and clearly wronged, we make an instant caricature of the person who did it to us. We define him totally by the one wrong he did.
It does not matter how much we donate; it matters whether the donation is meaningful. How to define meaningful? Let society and history judge.
There was a time when events that define the human condition were subject to very limited and time-delayed analysis. In the 21st Century and beyond, however, the human condition is subject to real-time, overwhelming analysis and dissection.
We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.
I grew up with too much freedom. You can’t define yourself.
In a way, I think science is the modern religion, and at times, I despise it as much as I despise other religions because it really will only accept stuff that fits its masculine ability to define the world.
As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking, ‘This is what I love doing, and I hope I’m going to be able to do it forever.’
I always keep thinking, ‘The next role – that’s going to be the one that’s really going to define me and show them all. I’ll transform and disappear, and it will be a revelation.’
Sometimes we think roles define us. One can emerge beyond the confines of their roles to make an impact on society.
Long before Starbucks popularized the phrase ‘the third place’ – somewhere to interact outside of work and home – it was neighborhood restaurants that helped to define places like Union Square.
We provide a breadth of live and catch-up content – what we define as this season’s content, none of which is available in the Netflix rerun world.
Because when you are something people don’t know quite how to define, it means you get more of an opportunity to define yourself to bring something new to the table, to bring a new view on things.
You don’t fix the problem until you define it.
I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is.
If my dancing is a disaster – it doesn’t define me as a person.
Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
People define themselves aesthetically at a very young age.
The letters TSS that I once read in the fine print buried on the bottom of tampon boxes soon came to define me. TSS – Toxic Shock Syndrome: a potentially fatal complication of certain types of bacterial infections.
When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors – you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.
Your dreams are what define your individuality. They have the power to give you wings and make you fly high.
I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love.
We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.
Woodstock didn’t define a generation because everyone showed up or those who did were a perfectly representative sample. It defined a generation because, for a few days, it bottled its peculiar zeitgeist.
Like I say, Michelin is Michelin. It’s nice people are recognized, but at the end of the day, the star doesn’t define you, it’s what you do with it, and it’s what you do in life in general. I think it helps you with the business, but it doesn’t help you as a person.
If I couldn’t use food or love to define contentment, I would use reading.
People are real quick to jump at the easiest way to define you.
I am from the bush. The bush did not define me. I did not stay in the bush, but I never forgot where I came from.
I started saying, ‘I don’t want to be crazy anymore.’ I need to make some changes. And the first thing I started doing was just got all the men out of my life, because that was a big problem for me. That was a crutch, if you will. You know, trying to define yourself through other people or men, in particular.
For many startups, ideating is the fun part: coming up with ingenious schemes to grab eyeballs and start conversations. But before you dive into that stage, take a step back and define your goals.
I like knowing that the further back one traces any lineage, the narrower the path grows, to the haunt of just a few shaggy ancestors, with luck on their side, little gizmos in their cells and a future storied with impulses and choices that will ultimately define them.
The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.
The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image.
All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn’t define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that’s fine.
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‘the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.’ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‘Artist.’
