I Am

I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.

It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

I am just your everyday, average girl. I live by the beach. I wear flip flops. I don't wear make-up. I go to the gym.

There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.

I'm no where as tough as my father. I really think that I am more open to change than he was.

But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart... I am a big teddy bear.

I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.

There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.

Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it's Shillong, it's northeastern.

I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.

I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.

I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.

You just can't compare the WWE to anything else when it comes to sports entertainment. There is nothing like the WWE, nothing like this machine I am working for and I'm proud to work for.

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.

I do what I feel is right. I am not scared to walk on the new path and take risk.

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.

Obviously, I am a huge Matt Morrison fan, and I am a big Lea Michele fan because I know those guys from way back.

Singing is my entire life. I nearly lost that. I am so blessed to be able to do this. It's the only thing I've ever wanted to do.

When I was a teenager, I worked in New Orleans for a chef named Paul Prudhomme. That was a very important time in my life as a chef. I developed my palate and learned a lot. And here I am now. I specialize in modern Mexican and contemporary Latin cuisines.

I take four planes a week, honestly. You know, I am for intelligence screening.

I am all for everyone having a voice, I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.

I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.

I am uncomfortable talking about the things that I write. It seems unseemly to me. I have no problem at all when I see anybody else talking about the same project, but I feel my work should speak for itself.

If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You can't do that with television - you have air dates to meet.

Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.

I am a citizen of the world.

I definitely relate so much to a lot of women in comedy, but I don't love segregating the genders. I'm just as influenced by male comedians as I am female comedians.

I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.

Whenever I am acting, it's everything, you know. If I'm researching a role, I'm completely consumed in that and, between action and cut, I live in this suspended time.

I can't speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come out of a closet. I never felt like I was in a closet. I never did. I always felt comfortable with who I am and the decisions I made.

I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.

One way to ease liquidity for banks is that the government can buy all highly rated securities held by the banks. Every single bank in the U.A.E. has some sovereign debts in their portfolios. I am not asking them to buy any junk bonds, rather the high quality U.A.E. government debt.

I am not a madman or a nut.

I am proud of my work for my country.

I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.

I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.

I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.

I am not one of those people who will ever be comfortable mocking or making caricatures of the stereotypes attached to any community.

If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right.

You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself, you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

I am rather inclined to silence.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

I don't know who my grandfather was, I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true, but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

It is true that a large percentage of the Western world hopes that I am imprisoned or dead. But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.

I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me, and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.

I guess I am a rapper. It's weird to be called that, or tell someone that's your profession.

I am never so happy as when I am really engaged in good earnest, & it makes me must wonderfully cheerful & merry at other times, which is curious & very satisfactory.

I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.

I used ribosomes from very, very robust bacteria under very, very active conditions and found a way - I actually took advantage of research done before me at the Weizmann, the same institute I am now - how to preserve their activity and their integrity while they crystallized.

Really, as long as I am working and have diversity, I am happy.

I am not a good cue card reader.

I am proud to be a member of the Congress of the United States.

All my songs are where I am.

I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician, I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.

There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.

I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.

When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.

I am definitely going to college!

I am who I am.

I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.

In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.

If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.

I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.

I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.

Well, I have been in physical altercations, but they weren't really fights because I am too scared and Jewish. So anytime that it gets to a point where there is gonna be a fight, I immediately apologize.

Ever since I did that 57.9 last year, the Americans have been analysing me in detail. You can see on the swimming web pages. They are breaking it down in every detail. How many strokes I take. How quick I am in and out of the wall.

For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.

I am only this successful because I'm so good at grounding myself.

I'm going into my first Olympics, whereas people I'm racing against are going into their third and fourth and probably last Olympics. So there's more pressure on them to perform. I've still got a whole future ahead of me. I am not even the Olympic champ.

I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.

I've made sure I am working hard enough to get that lead and keep it there.

Seeing that flag means so much: I am inspired by my Queen, my country.

I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter. And the rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic, and the best idea wins.

My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot. It's strange: people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can't even answer it. I don't keep regular hours.

I've done shows that aired on American TV, but none of them proved to be successful, so yes, no one here knows who I am.

I prefer musicals, because I am the best dancer who ever lived. The best plies, the best sashays, and by far the best-smelling Capezios.

Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don't get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers. Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren't our audience - it's the critical thinkers we love.

I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.

Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.

I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.

I am a book reviewer. I write for a glossy magazine called 'SCI FI.' The money is not life-changing, but it's a low-stress gig. Publishers send me their books. More than I could possibly read. I pick a few and write about them, put a very few others on the shelf, to be perused at my leisure, someday.

I am half Scottish. My father is an expat from Glasgow, and on my mother's side there's a bit of French, a bit of Scottish, a bit of Irish.

I am quite loud and bolshie. I'm a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.

I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.

I want to go and see things as a fan again. I am a fan, but I can't remember what it feels like to be a fan anymore. Because I've become an artist. I've become the artist.

I've never been more normal than I am now.

Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents.

Yes, I am the Olympic champion, but this is not the end of it. I want all the gold that there is out there, everything that exists in figure skating. In all events, in all competitions.

I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.

I am a regular writer in Mexico, and I always tell the truth in my writings.

I am an undiplomatic diplomat.

I am no David Beckham. I have not changed my life since I was 15 years old. My family is the only thing that has changed for me.

I'm just happy with what I am, and I happen to be a polo player.

I esteem it the crowning mercy of my life that not only the chief ends I contemplated on becoming a missionary are attained, but I am allowed to see competent, faithful, and affectionate successors actively engaged in the work.

I am persuaded that the chief reason why we do not enjoy religion is that we do not try to enjoy it.

I suppose they think me an old man and imagine it is nothing for one like me to resign a life so full of trials. But I am not old - at least in that sense, you know I am not. Oh, no man ever left the world with more inviting prospects, with brighter hopes, or warmer feelings - warmer feelings.

Notwithstanding my present incompetency, I am beginning to translate the New Testament, being extremely anxious to get some parts of Scripture, at least, into an intelligible shape, if for no other purpose than to read, as occasion offers, to the Burmans I meet with.

I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year, the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.

I have a bunch of concepts and ideas that I want to do but I have also been growing my production company in general and looking to branch out of projects that I am directing and producing.

But the most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes.

Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.

I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.

My father is my father, and I am me. I have the advantage of this honest comparison, quiet, and the opportunity to share in his profession.

I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth, I came from really humble beginnings - the projects of New York City - and I worked my way to get to where I am.

When I originally came from 'Cheetah Girls,' I was making music that was real to me but not believable. I think there was a disconnect there. I am a grown woman, and I've been through a lot. The most important thing about my music is that we don't jump the gun and throw anything out there.

Everyone always asks, 'Did you ever rebel? Did you dye your hair blue? Did you wear black nail polish?' I mean, of course, there have been episodes when you wear weird-colored lipstick... But generally, I think I was pretty much the way I am now.

I am such a bath girl: we've gone to some of the beautiful hotels in the world, and if there's a shower, I'm so disappointed.

I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.

I do not like people writing songs and then other people singing them. A lot of people don't even sing their own songs anymore. It's like producers these days have ghost producers, 'I don't produce, but I am a producer.'

However dark, however demanding the realities of existence are, artists provide the lift, the light, the ways to make it through. They help us find the joys and delights, the hopes we need for our days and hours. I am grateful for their gifts.

I am uninterested in appearing in newspapers and on television. Many people think I am striking a pose - that I want to create a sense of shyness. But it's just not something I want to do. I overdosed.

I must be allowed to be as I am.

Performing live is not my favourite. I am more of a recording person, I prefer to be private. I didn't mind doing videos, even if they came very close with the camera. I can take that, but walking on stage in concert and singing live, that is a bit difficult.

The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.

I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.

I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.

I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.

Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.

As someone from, and directly involved with, this part of the world, I am convinced Arabs are qualified to regain their glorious past.

I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoints and things of that sort.

Every family in Konya has at least one shoemaker in their midst, and I am one of those families.

The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.

China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can - and often is - censored by Chinese authorities.

People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I'll just clearly tell you: Whatever I do is not art. Let's say it is just objects or materials, movies or writing, but not art, OK?

To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.

I heat myself up over the fact that I am never going to be as good as I want to be.

I am committed to ensuring San Francisco remains a center for tech and the innovation capital of the world.

I will always be a New York girl at heart, but I am really liking the L.A. lifestyle.

It's factual to say I am a bilateral-below-the-knee amputee. I think it's subjective opinion as to whether or not I am disabled because of that. That's just me.

We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don't see on my CV. The stuff that doesn't work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.

I am absolutely a Giants fan and I'm a Dynasty baby so I was a 49ers fan for a long time.

I am black, and there's no getting around that, but being black doesn't define every aspect of my life.

I am constantly re-evaluating my goals and trying to strike items from my to-do list that aren't critical.

I'm the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.

I am really OK with the way I look. It's fine. All this is transient. I mean, it's really, you know, it changes with time, and that's the external.

I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging.

I'm not the coolest person in the world. I'm not the sexiest Diva or the strongest Diva. I know who I am. I'm not the most popular person, and I'm kind of dorky, and I'm someone you can see at your school or as your neighbor, and I think people like that.

My only window into the Internet is Twitter because I am afraid of the Internet. I need my mom to hold my hand if I'm going to read anything about me.

By getting into distribution and production, I am actually widening my base.

I'm going to keep making films I believe in. Whether I am successful or not is besides the point.

There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm making an effort.

I am shamelessly biased about the people in my life, and it makes sense to me that other people are the same.

I am marrying her because I love her.

I am at the top of Toyota and drive cars myself. I was also born with this name.

People look at me and think I am an expert in the automobile industry, and I'm not.

I am a very physical actor. I generally use my hands a lot.

I am a big Batman fan, not so much a Superman fan.

I can confidently say that I am comfortable with all the directors, co-star and producers with whom I have worked, there have been absolutely no tensions.

If a gym is not available, wherever I am, I do my free hand exercises.

What is important for me is that people are liking my movies, I am liking my work, for which I am very happy.

It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero.

My love for sports will never die. I love martial arts and I want to promote it in whichever way I can. I am a fighter first, then an actor.

No one has got close enough to use or abuse me, and even if they did, I wouldn't get too emotional about it. The only thing I ever get emotional about is my family. I am kind to everyone but I trust no one. That keeps me from getting hurt.

History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am.

I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility. I like the liberal tradition, I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.

I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.

As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy.

I am Al Gore, and I used to be the next president of the United States of America.

You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested in the present.

Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.

I am a distance runner, a marathoner... literally and figuratively.

I never want to be in that stage where a band ends up playing state fairs and casinos. I am not willing to go out shooting up Botox and eating corn dogs while judging pig contests.

Listen, man: I am not the industrial godfather, king, whatever. I don't relish that title. I don't like it. I think it's limiting. I do country, I do blues. I don't just go straight.

I know who I am. I don't have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did. You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.

The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.

You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck - and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee - or you can go out and become an entrepreneur.

I have one of those Garmin watches, and I'm OCD about downloading my runs no matter where I go. I used it on an 18-mile run in Paris, a 12-miler in the mountains of Montana, a couple of runs in the Bahamas. Wherever I am, I try to run. That's what's so great about it.

Throughout my years championing for civil rights, analyzing politics and advocating on behalf of the voiceless, I am disturbed the most when harmless children suffer because of politics or detrimental policies.

I always feel that I am writing for somebody who is bright but impatient. Someone who doesn't have unlimited time. That is my sense of the reader. So I have got to get to the point.

I am a very aesthetic person.

I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.

I am always anxious.

I am not a foodie, thank goodness. I will eat pretty much anything. A lot of my friends are getting incredibly fussy about food and I see it as a bit of an affliction.

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.

There's a certain kind of insular, old-fashioned, upper-class Britishness that gives me the spooks. I am sure that comes from a boarding-school trauma.

In France, I am the fifth artisan to produce his own chocolate, and the others have been doing it for a long time.

Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.