Tyra Banks Quotes

I really think the human experience is very similar for everyone; we're all doing slightly different versions of the same thing.

I feel my situation is no different from anybody else's experiences.

At last I understood that the way over, or through this dilemma, the unease at writing about 'petty personal problems' was to recognize that nothing is personal, in the sense that it is uniquely one's own. Writing about oneself, one is writing about others, since your problems, pains, pleasures, emotions—and your extraordinary and remarkable ideas—can't be yours alone. [...] Growing up is after all only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares.

I guess initially I was amazed that somebody would see something within my work that they could really relate to, but the more it's happened, the more people have come forward, I've really realized that we're all kind of going through the same thing at the same time.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

It's kind of fun to hear that other people deal with the same kinds of issues that you do.

No matter what you go through, if it's the truth, 9 times out of 10, somebody else has been through the same thing or is currently going through the same thing.

I feel that if I'm going through something, I'm sure someone else is, too.

When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.

There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?

It's one thing to talk to a vet about something, but when you're talking to a fellow rookie going through the same struggles you are, you kind of understand it - and you grow together like that.

I think we go through the world feeling alone and singular, and you forget that your one story is probably the same as millions of people's stories. Maybe with different specifics. But a lot of people experience the same things.

I wanted to get people to feel where I'm coming from and connect with people who are feeling the same way that I am.

I feel similar to a lot of people. I don't feel unique. So what I'm trying to do in my films is provide something for people like me, but also a collection of scenes that instigate.

Console yourself, dear man and brother; whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true.

I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

I tell stories about people audiences might think they have nothing in common with, then they emotionally connect with them and find they're not different at all.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

Life is lived in common, but not in community.

It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.

To confront those fears, in a controlled environment, where there's 300 people around you going through the same thing, it's this weird sort of yin and yang.