Julia Cameron Quotes

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

I just want to be normal, like everybody else." "Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?

If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.

I got tired of doing battle with people thinking I was a little weird because I wasn't in a band making happy, stilted music. The only people who really seem weird to me are people who think they're normal. People who think it's possible to be normal just by doing the same things that most people do. Is there a most people? I don't know. Television makes it seem like there is, but I think that might just be television.

Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.

I keep saying, 'Don't change. Be who you are,' but society is really strong in their opinions.

People want you to be ordinary.

The outside wold pressures you into a mold, but if you don't accept that - you gamble with life. Call it gambling.

A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.

I've noticed that most people tend to go through life preserving their differences from others.

If you act weird, people are going to treat you weird, but if you're just yourself, people respond to that.

It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.

I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt.

Even if we're not doing anything wrong, there are certain things we want to do that we don't think can withstand the scrutinizing eye of other people. And those are often the most important things that we do. The things we do when other people are watching are things that are conformist, obedient, normal, and unnotable.

Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.

You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.

I don't want to live up to how people expect me to be.

But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.'

I've seen a lot of good things and a lot of the bad of what Hollywood can bring. At the end of the day, I've found that when you try and fit in, that's a way to go crazy; you kind of lose yourself. I'm sometimes the different one at the table, but I don't care.

Every single person, pretty much, is taught what they're supposed to do: go to school, get a job, find someone to love, get married, have kids, raise the kids, and then die. Nobody questions that. What if you want to do something different?

Conforming is not cool.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

I try to be as normal as I can.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.