David Guterson Quotes

If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

I feel more and more like 'myself' these days. Before becoming a father, I can remember a low-level feeling of somehow not quite being myself.

I gotta be who I am now. How do you not, right?

I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.

I don't want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like I was then, and me as I am now, and me like I'll be in the future. I want to be me and nothing but me. I want to be crazy as the moon, wild as the wind and still as the earth. I want to be every single thing it's possible to be. I'm growing and I don't know how to grow. I'm living but I haven't started living yet.

I tried to be someone else, but nothing seemed to change. I know now, this is who I really am inside. I've finally found myself, fighting for a chance. I know now, this is who I really am.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

Your closet needs to be a place of joy and celebration of who are you now - not who you were.

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.

You change the world by being yourself.

I'm not going to become a costume version or caricature of myself; I like to morph.

I've done a lot of things and I've been a lot of people, but now I've come to realize who I am.

I think you sort of shed skins as you go along in life. You get into your 40s, and you feel like, 'OK, no more pretending.' You get to just be who you are.

The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.

I thought I was going to school to be other people, but really, what I learned was to be myself - accepting myself, my strengths and weaknesses.

Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you are and loving who and what you are.

It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.

I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.

In the beginning, I was worried there are too many shots of me as a boy out there. Now I'm at a point where I know my past doesn't make me any less of a woman today. I can be proud of it. I don't have to bury it.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing into the woman I am meant to be.

I think that my whole journey had been getting to the place where I can accept myself for who I am, to be the woman that I'm meant to be, but you have to get there first.

It wasn't much fun being Charlotte Go-Go. I like being Charlotte Caffey better.