James Dickey Quotes

I'm always trying to figure out what my taste is, what my likes and dislikes are.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

People want to know more about me. They want to know who I am.

I'm starting to find my own style.

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

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he wants to put it out there.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

I care about being creative and expressing myself.

I don't feel I have to be Jackson Browne. Still, I like to say something.

My music is a whole reflection of who I'm as an individual.

I'm me, and the me that's me is me and is going to continue to be me, and it's always reaching and growing.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.

A lot of women want to be married and have kids one day, but before we get there, it's so important to establish who you are, find yourself, and live in that for a minute before you become somebody's wife and mother.

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.

If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .

If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you're Rembrandt or not.

The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is a gain.

it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.

Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

I think people who struggle to define themselves might never be satisfied because there is no definition. Living with responsibility is important, but I don't really think you have to grow up.

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.