Barbara Park Quotes

I have a trend of my own.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

I think everybody has their own unique style.

There's one thing everyone should understand: I like my character.

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

My parents named me Arlette, and I changed it to Agnes when I was young. I didn't like it because I don't like names with 'ette' - you know, it looks like a little girl's name.

I just know who I am and what I like.

Fashion, to me, is trends - it's what other people are wearing; it's what's hot this season. I'm not as interested in that. Style, to me, is personal. Style is what each individual has.

I'm not everyone's cup of tea, but that's the great part: I don't have to be.

I know what I like, and I'm not trying to search for who I am.

It turns out that our notions of what a 'self' is and how it might feel fulfilled have no more objective status than most of the rest of reality. It seems we make ourselves up as we go along.

Yeah. It's all in the music first. The music is like women to me. It's like how you pick your music: everybody got their own different way how they pick their women and their music, and I guess that's what the album becomes.

Little red wagon, little red bike, I ain’t no monkey but I know what I like.

The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.

In adolescence you have to separate yourself and establish your identity. So, being very independent anyway, I took charge.

The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it is a dramatic effect arising diffusely from a scene that is presented.

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

If you don’t define yourself for yourself then you will be crushed into other's fantasies of you and eaten alive

I'll say American for now. I really have no preference, though. Nationality is nothing. It's all about the girl - but she has to be curvy!

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.

But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread.

Personal style is about a sense of yourself, a sense of what you believe in and wearing what you like.

I went to school, and I remember that you had to do these tests to find out what set you're in - how clever you are. I put down "Kit Harington," and they looked at me like I was completely stupid, and they said, "No, you're Christopher Harington, I'm afraid." It was only then I learnt my actual name. That was kind of a bizarre existential crisis for an 11-year-old to have, but in the end I always stuck with Kit, because I felt that's who I was. I'm not really a "Chris."

Each man has his fancy.