Agyness Deyn Quotes

My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.

Linking up the things you were with the things you become is what growing up is.

The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character.

Whatever happened to the tomboy I used to be, the slightly rebellious rocker?

When I was little, the idea of waking up as a girl was like a fairytale. I had this idea that I'd meet a witch who would transform me. From the moment I found out that it was actually possible, I went to bed each night feeling that when it happens, it will be the best day of my life. And it was!

I think we all evolve as we get older, and that's normal, but I like to think that my recent transition hasn't made me into a different individual. Same person - no difference at all, just a different sex.

I was the biggest tomboy growing up. Now I love playing with a full face of makeup.

So many things come with your maturation process. I changed throughout my time with WWE from a kid in his 20s into a man.

I wanted to do something a little bit more feminine after my second movie, 'Joshy,' which was so masculine.

I felt like an ugly duckling back in school. I was a complete tomboy with short hair. Never in my dreams did I imagine that I would walk the ramp with 6-inch heels. My friends can't believe that I'm an actor, because I was such an introvert in school.

Camp is like this set-apart world where people go to try to change who they are, and yet change is really scary.

Most of us, whether we like it or not, we grow up and start having a different view of what we've done and who we are and where we're going.

We do not necessarily improve with age: for better or worse we become more like ourselves.

Personally, I think that children should be left alone, they should be given an opportunity to grow up, to become aware of themselves and decide themselves who they are: men or women, if they want to have a traditional or homosexual marriage.

I am no longer Tris, the selfless, or Tris, the brave. I suppose that now, I must become more than either.

And I thought, you know, a little gender confusion makes a better person. A little adversity in life at an early age. It's character building.

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

Each period had required me to be a slightly different person, and that was exhausting. I wondered if school had always felt this way and whether it was like this for everone.

I'm not the same girl I was five years ago. Hopefully, with the choices I'm making people will start to see that I'm not just little Gabriella.

You can't be who you are going to be and who you used to be at the same time.

People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.

Everyone journeys through character as well as through time. The person one becomes depends on the person one has been.

Anyway, now she thinks of Estha and Rahel as Them, because, separately, the two of them are no longer what They were or ever thought They would be. Ever. Their lives have a size and a shape now. Estha has his and Rahel hers. Edges, Borders, Boundaries, Brinks and Limits have appeared like a team of trolls on their separate horizons. Short creatures with long shadows, patrolling the Blurry End. Gentle half-moons have gathered under their eyes and they are as old as Ammu was when she died.

One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone.

Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.