Mary Balogh Quotes

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

I'm easy driving, But I'm not a person who loves living pleasantly above all else. I'm not that way at all. I might think I'm that, but I'm not really that.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

My life isn't going to be about Jar Jar Binks.

I always like whatever I did most recently. It's the closest to who I am at the moment.

I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point.

I think my life is a movie and your life reflects your work.

I don't know about an awful lot of stuff. I'm not educated. I left school when I was 16, with no qualifications. The thing that I do know about is my feelings and what I think of the world and what I think of me.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

I want to maximize my potential. And when I talk about that, don't get me wrong - I'm not talking about just making money.

I understood that I am a lot bigger than what I do, that I have a bigger potential.

I picture myself now, and I picture myself in 30 years, and I'll probably be the same. I'll still think I'm not the greatest singer I can be.

I played with Eddy Curry twice and in New York, the second time, he asked, 'Who are you?' My first to fourth year I was a different person. I started thinking big picture, that maybe I don't have all the answers.

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

I didn't get a lot of questions asked earlier in my career, I guess. But I've always been the same guy, more or less.

You must have an opinion about yourself, some kind of meaning to yourself, a purpose, if you are really going to learn anything or develop into that which you desire to be.

I feel it is important to remember who you are if you want to make it in life - and I try not to forget that fact even for a moment.

I find myself a bit boring because I somehow always wanted to be MSF.

There's who you think you are and who you want to be, and then who you actually are.