Suzanne Collins Quotes

I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

I'm not that rebellious. There's a part of me that wishes I was that.

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

There came a time when these two incompatible notions of who I was, well, something had to give. Either that 'something' is where you acquiesce to the world around you and you conform, or you sort of defiantly break whatever remaining bonds connect you to that world and create for yourself a different set of values.

I'm not really rebellious. People think I am, but I'm not.

I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.

I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

I dug the idea that I was being perceived as the black sheep of my family, but for me, it was like, I was a rebel, and that to me was most important.

It wasn't really part of the program in the Perot family. Rebellion was not an option.

The inner me was always under attack by authority, by the way my parents wanted me to be brought up, by these English schools I went to. So I've always felt this kind of anti-authoritarian strain in me, pushing to express itself despite the obstacles.

I try to be bad, but nobody will let me.

I was not cut out to be a rebel.

I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.

I danced with passion to spite the music.

At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

I'm not rebellious. I try to be rebellious, but I don't walk around being rebellious for no reason.

I fought my grandfather like you wouldn't believe. I went my own way and decided to become a racing driver. I don't think I would ever have fought as hard as I did if my grandfather had been a reasonable person.

There's a rebel lying deep in my soul.

I never liked being called the young rebel star.

If I dyed my hair, my mother would actually disown me.

There have been moments in my life when I've become numb to certain aspects of myself that I found frightening. Or I've conformed to certain morals of society and then maybe rebelled or found a way out.

I think, a lot of times, people don't want to do what their parents do because they want to be their own person.

Once I accepted music was my path, I rebelled by wanting to do it my own way. I also didn't think it was respectful to my father's career and creativity to assume that I could jump on the back of all he had worked his entire life for.

For ever and anon the soul becomes weary of the conventions that are not of it, and with a single stroke shatters the civilized lies with which it is unable to cope, and the strong arm reaches out and takes by force what it cannot win by cunning.