Sophie Swetchine Quotes

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

My state of being is just unique.

Tiger is free to explore the world himself. He is a man whose persona is totally different from what I had during my initial days. There can't be any comparison between the two of us, since he is absolutely different.

Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying.

I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. He is universal by virtue of the inseparability of his organism from the cosmos. He is unique in that he is just this organism and not any stereotype of role, class, or identity assumed for the convenience of social communication.

I try to be me to the utmost.

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.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

Soul is just that inner spirit. I use that inner spirit for whatever it is I do.

I needed to be myself and find my own identity.

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.

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

There is a great suspicion of saying that anyone, especially a child, is 'the product of destiny,' or 'formed by fate,' or 'predestined for a certain life.' I am suspicious, too, of efforts to cage children or adults in preconceived ideas of who they are or should be.

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

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

Having long suspected that there was something alive in there, running the place, separate from everything else, absolutely individual and independent, we've celebrated by giving it a real name. My self.

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.