"You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesnâ€™t get found. It emerges."

-- Reid Hoffman

#Identity Quotes #World Quotes #Remakes Quotes

“I hope to be known as a chameleon actress, as someone who can play any part out there, and someone who can transform herself into any kind of character there is.”
“Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.”
“Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.”

Source : James Cagney (1976). “Cagney by Cagney”
“How good is Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel anyway? ... to me, Daniel's brilliance has nothing to do with the big numbers he puts up more or less every week. Howie Long once gave a great explanation of what it was like to get beat by quarterback legend Joe Montana. He said it was like getting knocked out in a pillow fight. You never felt the blow. And you were all kinds of mad afterward. That's as good as any description of Daniel. ... So what does Daniel do? Something right. On every play. In chess, grandmasters will tell you that it's the most innocuous-looking moves that are deadliest.”
“The secret of secrets is inside me again”

Source : "A land not mine, still". Poem by Anna Akhmatova, as published in "The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova" edited by Roberta Reeder and translated by Judith Hemschemeyer, 1990.
“Writing enters into us when it gives us information about ourselves we are in need of *at the time that we are reading.* How obvious the thought seems once it has been articulated! As with love, politics, or friendship: readiness is all.”
“I've been taking art classes for a couple of years; I love to draw.”
“He is mad, bad and dangerous to know.”

Source : Writing of Byron in her journal after their first meeting at a ball in March, 1812: Elizabeth Jenkins 'Lady Caroline Lamb' (1932) ch. 6.

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