Emily Giffin Quotes

Personality for me is the strongest statement.

I've often been told that I'm a bit strange. I hear that pretty regularly, but it is not how I see myself.

I don't know if I get recognized necessarily, though I do get looked at a lot - but I don't know if it's because of who I am, or if people just think I look weird.

I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.

I never felt like an Amanda.

To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.

All effort at originality must end either in the quaint or the monstrous. For no man knows himself as an original; he can only believe it on the report of others.

There has never been, and never again will be a human being like you. There is nothing ordinary about you. If you feel ordinary, it is because you have chosen to hide the extraordinary parts of yourself from the world.

Mostly, nothing's really changed. I'm still the dorky nerd that I always was.

I'm pretty normal.

It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

I believe a person's style is an expression of who you are - way more than dancing.

The thing that I like about being me is that everybody gets a different feeling from me.

I don't think I'm boring.

Our subjectivity is so completely our own.

I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I'd like people to understand that I do have some personality.

Don't get me wrong. I want people to know who I am.

Sometimes, I think I may be more recognizable because I'm character-looking.

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

I've always been very conscious of who I am.