Daniel Alarcon Quotes

The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn't exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person.

I think I'm one of those people that kind of thinks everybody's got an identity, and maybe that's the core of their personality. But I think we change enough over the years that it's like a succession of different people.

But whether we want to do it because we want to have people to have a different idea of who we are or not, we do it naturally. So the way we construct our narrative is different from the way we constructed it a year ago. The difference is maybe very small or it may be huge.

We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our 5-year-old selves became our 10-year-old selves, and so on and on; and if we unpack our selves, the full album appears. Every moment is a part of the following moment, and we are all a continuum.

Time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised.

I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

I do think that you can dress yourself out of a problem. The way that a haircut and a new pair of pants can make you feel is better than any therapist, because when you look in the mirror, you see a different person - you are a different person. It's superficial change that can lead to real change.

I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism.

I think I've probably re-invented myself three or four times now, if that's what one calls it.

One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

If you knew me before Myspace, you'd probably thought I'd have been a scholar teaching philosophy in a university my whole life. If you met me before college, you'd probably have thought I'd be a musician for my entire life.

I consciously took this decision of changing my image from a bahu. I just wanted to look different and good.

If you want to write from life, you can't really write a story. People are always changing, and I think if we didn't look the same day-to-day, and our self weren't always in our body, would we even be the same? The continuity is in our bodies.

I've become someone else, really, like a role model.

All of us, and particularly young people, have a tendency to view ourselves and our natures as static: you'll choose to do something for a few years, and you'll still be the same you.

I don't think I'm a gay activist. I used to be.

I'm not the same guy that you may have seen from the 'I Get Wet' album. I'm not that same person, and I don't just mean that in a philosophical or conceptual way. It's not the same person at all.

Many associate me with the person I was when I was young. But I had a different role then, played in a different position.

To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was.

My past identity separates from me and remains in the past; he becomes someone else. Is memory really as insubstantial as the fragments of information that we store in our heads?

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

I used to be someone.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.