Sebastian Faulks Quotes

I don't need any nicknames.

Personality for me is the strongest statement.

Growing up, I've always made a point to not be placed in a box.

The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

My choices are like my fingerprints, they make me unique

You can survive without a label... matter a fact, you're better off without one!

I don't think sexuality defines a person. It's one small part of who you are, in my view. You are many things, and I never felt that people were defined by their sexuality solely.

Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.

it goes something like 'There are a lot of ways to be yourself.

I feel like people always wanna define me and I don’t wanna be defined.

Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the audience. Be the master of your own image rather than letting others define if for you. Incorporate dramatic devices into your public gestures and actions – your power will be enhanced and your character will seem larger than life.

...that I alone hold the definition of what I am.

You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel." (Something Borrowed)

Football isn't who we are, it doesn't necessarily define us. It's part of our life and it always will be, but football won't define us. Excellence does.

I'm history! No, I'm mythology! Nah, I don't care what I am, I'm free!

Nakedness makes us democratic, adornment makes us individuals.

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

Every act is an act of self definition.

We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.

Don't let anyone define you. You define yourself.

We live our lives based on who we think we are.

First you have to know who you are. That is the most important thing, as if you don't know who you are you will either get swallowed up or you follow some unsuitable trends and just become a nonentity.

You never answered my question, about what you want to do with your life. Maybe my dreams aren't that complicated. Maybe I think that a job is just a job. What does that mean? Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am.

No matter what happens, always be yourself.

Except that a human being is both the public and the private. We are both, private and public in the same person.