Andrew Haigh Quotes

I think, personally, it's our flaws that define us to us - or maybe it's just me.

I'm still the same person I've always been.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

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

I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.

I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the know child.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

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

When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.

I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.

I don't know about an awful lot of stuff. I'm not educated. I left school when I was 16, with no qualifications. The thing that I do know about is my feelings and what I think of the world and what I think of me.

We all wait for a mirror to show us who we are, to validate us. When we hear something about ourselves that we have never heard before, it feels like a blessing, and it gives power.

Through life's ups and downs, and the few mistakes we make and all the successes that we get, let nobody - nobody's opinion - define who you are. And if anybody defines who you are, let it be yourself.

It feels weird to say there's more to me than that, like I'm being overdramatic, and a tear rolls down my cheek. But, no - I do like I feel like there's more to me than just baseball.

In the beginning of 'Jersey Shore,' for sure, that was the real Mike. That's the Mike that I know, that's the Mike I love. And that's the Mike I strive to be every day.

Binaries aside, we are the products of our relationships with our identities - cities we have built, bodies we have embraced, kindred souls we've cherished, our memories, our dreams, the fears we hide, the pain we hold - identities that cannot be reduced to a collection of labels.

Everything about who I am, negative and positive, is what shaped me.

When you look in the mirror what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you?