Ann Brashares Quotes

I think I find a commonality between characters and the different sides of myself.

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.

Without a musket to raise, a barricade to storm, a flag to wave, the question hit me in the face like the cold air: 'Who am I?'

I didn't want to make cinema so a person forgets himself and has a lot of fun. 'I forget myself, I am a little poor consumer.' I wanted to make a picture where someone who sees it say, 'This is me! This is me!'

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

I look at that person and I'm like, That's not Kelli White. That's not who I am, who I started out to be.

Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?

I think that I identify with my role in pretty much everything I have tried to do. I try to find something that I can understand about each character's behavior.

I've always been fascinated by this idea of who we are versus who we want to be.

I want everyone who's listening to know who I am and not just see me as this singer. I want them to feel connected to my story.

I can't just suddenly become 'Little Peace and Love Jair'... I've got to carry on being the same person.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

I think everybody can identify, you know, with this sort of struggle to decide for yourself who you are, you know, and what your place in life is.

I've always known exactly who I am, but growing up has always been a struggle. I've even been called an 'it.'

Who are we? Whom do we want to become? How do we perceive ourselves? How do we want to be perceived? These questions of identity are often at the core of our own internal struggles. Resolve them, and you are closer to being free.

One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.

What are we taking from people and what do we give is a life-long struggle, I think, for most of us. Who are we? Do we like who we are? Do we know who we are? Do we care? Does anyone care? That's such a big topic. I could tackle that in many movies. So could other people.

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

Every decision you make - every decision that you make every second - is not a decision about what to do, it is a decision about who you are. Every act is an act of self-definition.

I don't know where the line is. I don't know how much of myself is in Walter. There's got to be a bit of him there.