In fiction you're not often writing about the typical; you are interested in outliers, the points of interest. Part of it comes from feeling I was the only Asian or person of colour... another part comes from my personality: I'm an introvert, and my usual survival mode in a large group is to stand by a wall and watch everybody.
Celeste Ng
PersonalityWritingStandSurvival
Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.
Meryl Streep
PersonalityThinkChangesBirth
Perhaps we can get to the point where we can outsource our own personal experiences entirely into a computer - and possibly our own personality.
Sebastian Thrun
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A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
George Herbert Mead
PersonalityNormalSenseCertain
I might have some sort of personality disorder. I might not have proper filters; it might be some kind of version of Asperger's meets Tourettes meets prose.
Jonathan Ames
PersonalityKindFiltersSomeProse
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
George Orwell
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I'm, like, everybody's friend. I'm one of those dudes. I can be friends with anybody. Any race of person, any personality, I can kind of deal with them. I accept different types of people.
J. B. Smoove
FriendPersonalityPeopleFriends
You don't want your personality to eclipse your work because no one would be interested in seeing your work anymore.
Amy Landecker
WorkPersonalityYouSeeingWant
When you become a television personality, it's difficult to maintain your musical credibility.
Scott Weiland
PersonalityYouTelevisionBecome
Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
Georg Simmel
PersonalityPerformanceMysterious
What attracted me to Jimmy Bulger were the various facets of his personality and his humanity because I felt that the only way I could approach playing a character like him was to find his human side first and then map that out to see where it took the turn. He was a very complicated man.
Johnny Depp
CharacterPersonalityManMeFind
If being a skateboarder were a personality type and not actually an athletic activity, then I'd say I'm a skateboarder. But I don't ride one. I'm a bicycle person.
Erika Christensen
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A degree is an asset, but it doesn't mean anything by itself. It's just another asset. So is being persuasive, having good personality, being smart.
Irvin Mayfield
GoodPersonalitySmartMeanAnything
I like not being noticed. It has been a struggle because I love performing, but if I'm in a group of people and someone has a bigger personality, I'm like, 'Go ahead, and have fun!'
Amy Adams
LoveStrugglePersonalityFunPeople
When I first met my agent, I said, If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette.
Tia Carrere
AgePersonalityMeBlondeYouSaid
I decided I was going to play Cleopatra as someone with a brain. She's kept Egypt, this tiny country, in a balance of power with the almighty Roman empire, and she's done it through force of personality.
Harriet Walter
PowerPersonalityBalanceBrainPlay
The camera was kind to me. But I was never a screen personality like Gable or Flynn. The camera did something with their faces that was special.
Don Ameche
PersonalityMeCameraKindNever
I didn't really blossom until my mid teens, and by that time I had to work on my personality to make people like me. I found it easy to make people laugh and I was always pretty popular.
Eva Longoria
WorkTimePersonalityPeopleMe
I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality. I do.
Kaley Cuoco
FunnyLovePersonalityYouKnowTop
Your personality counts for a lot and how you are to work with.
Stella Maxwell
WorkPersonalityYouYourHowLot
When our systematic knowledge of human expressive behavior is more advanced, it will be possible to study the literary and historical documents of the past and to determine the expressed and implied views of personality that determined the behavior of our ancestors.
Timothy Leary
KnowledgePersonalityPastBehavior
We had no money. My family was in Southie; I was in affluent Brookline. I don't know if it's my personality or the circumstance, but it all kind of led to this feeling of being an observer on the outside.
Frankie Shaw
FamilyMoneyPersonalityKnowKind
I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work! I don't really have the personality for that.
Dennis Quaid
WorkLoveMoneyPersonalityPolitics
My mum's a bouncy, energetic, driven, crazy woman, and my dad's very relaxed, doesn't say much. I have the best of both worlds in my personality.
Ella Eyre
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