Nicholas Sparks Quotes

'St. Trinian's' is probably taking it to the extreme, but in essence it's saying, 'If you be yourself, you can do whatever you want,' and it's sort of a fun message.

I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!

Not caring more about what other people think than what you think. That's freedom.

I want to be myself.

I am a fiercely independent person, and I am no one's pawn.

I have been very independent from day I arrived in Washington.

I made a statement all my own.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.

I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.

I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts.

All I've ever needed is myself.

I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

I can do whatever I want, because my career is a certain thing.

You have to do what you want to do, and I genuinely believe that if you start interacting in the world that way that there is a respect in that.

I am who I am.

Whatever I do, I do it because I want to do it and because it's completely, 100% me.

A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.