Sarah Jones Quotes

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.

I find it endlessly interesting, endlessly funny, the fact that we're rather arbitrarily divided up into these discrete humans and that your physical self, your physical attributes, your moment of history and the place where you were born determine who you are as much as all that indefinable stuff that's inside of you.

My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

I have a very healthy dose of scepticism towards what identity is and what personas are, maybe because of my life journey. Identity is something so malleable.

I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists or writers or journalists or filmmakers, is a projection of where we were born, what's been withheld or lavished upon us, our color, our sex, our class. And everything we do in life to some degree is a reflection of that context.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

It's hard to run away from who you are, and when your taste is formed is a very important thing.

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

Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.

People often ask me when I realised that I was different. Some people seem surprised that it's a question that I cannot answer. I was never told that I was different. I was always just Sinead; I was just like my dad.

I know what my identity is.

My personal life is a big part of who my character is.

As we grow up, we're constantly defining ourselves. In my case: Caucasian, male, born in Iowa, live in Boston, Zen Buddhist, good at learning languages. With countless labels, I build up this creation I call my self.

Our identities really are a constant negotiation between the story we tell about ourselves and the narrative our societies like to recite.

Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named

Identity is something that you are constantly earning.

In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity.

Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.

Fundamentally, you can never be someone else. You can only be less of who you are.