Ant Middleton Quotes

I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

You have to lose yourself to find yourself.

One of my problems is to find the self.

Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

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

I enjoy exploring and finding myself.

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.

All I know is myself and I don't plan on changing that.

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.

Once you get older, you get a little closer to yourself, intimate. I've always been very aware of that, more conscious of who I am, how I fit in the thing as opposed to trying to emulate someone else. Though, sometimes I try to emulate De Niro all the time, who is someone I could never be.

I think this is what college is all about: self-examination and dealing with those questions of "Who am I?"

The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.

...fact was she knew more about them than she knew about herself, having never had the map to discover what she was like. Could she sing? (Was it nice to hear when she did?) Was she pretty? Was she a good friend? Could she have been a loving mother? A faithful wife? Have I got a sister and does she favor me? If my mother knew me would she like me? (140)

How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: "this is really you, this is no longer outer shell.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.

Some people spend their whole lives looking for themselves, yet our self is the one thing we surely cannot lose (how like a cheap philosopher I am become, staying in this benighted place). From the moment we are conceived it is the pattern in our blood and our bones are printed through with it like sticks of seaside rock. Nora, on the other hand, says that she’s surprised anyone knows who they are, considering that every cell and molecule in our bodies has been replaced many times over since we were born.