Personal Story Quotes

Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't want to be like some people that are in their twenties and writing autobiographies.

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.

Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.

I met my husband Itzik when I got back home to Israel from Oxford in 2002. He is my Internet-of-all-Things.

When I want to explain why empowering girls and women is critical to fighting poverty, I often tell a person's story. It's easier to relate to a personal story than to global data telling us that the majority of the billion people who live on less than $2 per day are women and girls. We are often told to never treat a person like a statistic.

I didn't touch a guitar until I was 20.

If I've got a script, you think I'll go to Hollywood to get money? I was bored with the people around me, so I just created my own movie, my own character. I'm the story of my own movie, and you know what? My movie is going to be better.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

One the reasons I talk about my story is I want other people who are in the circumstances I was in to understand they are just as good and as valuable as everyone else.

I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations.

I don't want to tell sad stories about myself. We may not have had a lot to spend when I grew up, but my childhood was good. The public likes to hear a dramatic story. They want a star to rise, have a meltdown and then return to greatness. Very American.

I couldn't have known 'Crank' was going to be published, let alone become a big hit. That book was very personal for me: I had to tell the story for myself.

When I grew up I was a huge Michael Jordan fan. That's not very unusual for people to like him, but I just liked reading his books, especially where he came from, getting cut from his high school team. I thought he was a good person, a good role model to look up to.

My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.

When people hear my story, and see that I came from nothing, they'll see that it's possible for them too.

I ventured into fiction in 1988 with 'What Love Sees,' a biographical novel of a woman's unwavering determination to lead a full life despite blindness.

My experience on 'Jarhead' was life changing.

There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.

When I was 17, I went to Brigham Young University. That was the first time I had set foot in a classroom.

I want to share the experiences I've had.

I was 16 before I met another passionate collector. One summer, I visited England; a new friend took me calling on his dotty, brilliant old aunt. She occupied a quaint house in Kent. Its walls were lined with glass-fronted cases full of what? Ancient shoe buckles.

When I approach my music and my music videos, obviously all of the subjects and stories that I tell come from an honest, truthful place and the experiences that I've had.

The songs are just an attempt to document what's been happening in my life. If people can relate to what's going on with me, then that's great.

I learned Romanian very late, when I was fifteen, in town, and I wanted to learn it. I like the language very much.