Caroline B. Cooney Quotes

A character is a completely fashioned will.

I couldn't imagine living my life with another name.

I was going to change my name to Sophie Windsor, but then I decided not to. I prefer to go into the room just as Sophie Winkleman.

My first name used to be Leslie. I snipped that off and put my middle name, which was Steven, in the front.

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 use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.

To me there is a name for each person. I think it’s marvelous to have a name. A woman is not a woman. It’s either Gena or my mother or some other person.

I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.

Individual style is the correct balance of knowing who you are, what works fro you, and how to develop your own personality

There is tremendous life and personality in a name. It should be at least as agonized over as any character trait.

You want me to be a man,older than you, who goes by the name of Roullard.

Individuality is very important for a full human life.

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.

I don't have any option. I'm not going to be less gay or more pretty. I can't try to have less personality or fewer controversial opinions.

Being a personality is not the same thing as having a personality.

There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.

Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.

Honestly, I haven't always been into fashion because I wasn't seeing myself reflected in the fashion industry ... Clothes are such a big part of who we are, they really show our personalities. I wasn't finding that.

I think people kind of come in who they are, and it sort of doesn't even matter who their parents are - it can affect you a little bit, and you can be guided and shaped.

I think everybody wants to be their own person and be an individual.

Music is a reflection of who you are.

A few people have said that I should change my name and the spelling so that people can say it, but I don't want to, I like it the way it is.

In the movie, you're moving, you have personality, you don't have to be great looking.

Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.

I love music. It's always been a big part of my life, and I don't think people should, you know, judge me by my last name instead of listening to the album. I think the music definitely speaks for itself, and it's a great album.