George Horace Lorimer Quotes

The individual - man as a man, man as a brain, if you like - interests me more than what he makes because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

I just live my life.

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.

A lot of what I do outside acting is really just for me.

I am not inspired by anyone. I don't have any idol. I just follow the people around me and try and learn a few things.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

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

You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself.

But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time.

I'm so many people. They shock me sometimes. I wish I was just me! I used to think I was going crazy, until I discovered that some people I admired were like that to.

Sometimes identity can be your salvation. It can be liberating to find your place in the world, but at some point, identity can hold you back.

We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.

I spent thirty-three years in another man's shadow. I went everywhere he went, I helped him with everything he did. I was in a sense a part of him. When you live like that for a long time, you gradually lose track of what it is you yourself really want out of life

NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I'm to get to know myself and the world outside. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer.

You should always go where there is a 'you-shaped' hole in the world.

When you don't know your values or who you are or you start to believe things other people are telling you, you get lost. I was just lost because I didn't know what I meant to music or what music meant to me. Now I just belong solo and I belong by myself.

It is more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will change as the world around you changes.

If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something to blame; and it is not the social system, or your intellect, but the way in which you have directed your intellect.

I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds.

This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.

When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.

I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.

How can I be a man if there is no role model?