Twiggy Quotes

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

To get what you want out of life, all you can really do is find out who you are, and do that.

I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it?' " 'The way I want it?' " 'Yeah. The way you want it. Don't you want it to be something more than what it is?' " 'What'st eh point? I can't change it.' " 'That's the point. If you don't, it will change you and it'll be your fault cause you let it. I let it. And messed up my life.' " 'Mess it up how?' " 'Forgot it.' " 'Forgot?' " 'Forgot it was mine. My life. I just ran up and down the streets wishing I was somebody else.

I think what I have done is claimed the space and pushed it forward as much as I can in relationship to who I am and how I live my life.

I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.

This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self.

I want an identity outside of my work.

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point?

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

The more time we invest imitating others, the less that's available to discover and be ourselves.

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.

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

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.

I just live my life.

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

I think that's one of the things that's missing in a lot of people's lives. That's finding out what works for you and doing that.

There's too much judgment out there. Really what we need to be doing is just all of us finding our own paths towards living the best lives we can live as clearly and boldly in accordance with our own personal values. And that's what I'm trying to do.