Ann Makosinski Quotes

What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.

If it took professional wrestling for people to recognize me as a person, then all the other endeavors I embark upon will explain me as a person, define me as a person, but wrestling will not define me.

Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

At Morehouse, I found myself and my voice, and I didn't want to lose that at Yale.

My self encompasses a lot of different things.

What I do and who I am are two different things. And they always will be.

I'm not super conservative, and I have no problem with people being risque or owning your sexuality or even putting it out there. I have a problem when it's all you are because you're not being fair to yourself; you have more depth than this.

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.

We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity.

Every act is an act of self definition.

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future.

To me, the most interesting part of 'True Blood' is that the entire crux of the show is based on identity and finding your true identity.

I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion, and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

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

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

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

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

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only a musician when I'm playing music - or writing music, or talking about music. I don't do that 24 hours a day. I'm also a father, a son, a husband, a citizen - I mean, when I go to vote, I'm not thinking of myself as 'a musician.'