David Nicholls Quotes

People tell me what to do every single day. They think I'm boring. I'm Disney kid. So, there's that.

I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did.

The girl next door isn't necessarily blonde and blue-eyed anymore. So I don't feel like I need to morph into that all-American thing.

In these days the young folks is all copy-cats, 'fraid to death they won't be all just alike; as for the old folks, they pray for the advantage o' bein' a little different.

Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.

It's been helpful to have so many opportunities to look different so people stop pigeonholing you.

There's a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture.

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

I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

All I want to do is be normal. But really, it's other people who won't let me be that way.

For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.

A lot of Asian girls love being basic because it's safe. But the thing is, a lot of my fans are those girls, and they want to be bolder, but there's no one they could look up to and be like, 'It's OK to be that way.'

I wanted to try and get out of the stereotypical Geordie girl. I stopped wearing fake tan and wore WAG dresses. But I was really miserable.

If you can't pigeon-hole yourself, who can you pigeon-hole?

In London, I did feel a pressure to be more avant-garde than I wanted.

I think growing up, people want to put you in a box and label you quite often, just because it's kind of easier, I guess.

A lady wants to be dressed exactly like everybody else but she gets pretty up- set if she sees anybody else dressed exactly like her.

if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature, it goes against God's laws, for in all the world's woods and forests he did not create a single leaf the same as another.

It's so horrible to realize you're just the same as everyone else, isn't it?

People have only one way to be.

Let's all be different same as me.