Zelda Fitzgerald book Save Me the Waltz
Variant: But I warn you, I am only really myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
Source: Save Me the Waltz
“I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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“I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else.”
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“I said "Somebody should do something about that." Then I realized I am somebody.”
Lily Tomlin (1939) American actress, comedian, writer, and producer
Gwyneth Paltrow (1972) American actress, singer, and food writer
Interview with ShowBizSpy. http://web.archive.org/web/20091008013808/http://www.showbizspy.com/article/192774/gwyneth-paltrow-i-dont-care-that-my-kids-cant-watch-my-films.html (5 October 2009)
Jacob Maris (1837–1899) Dutch painter
as cited in Landscape Painting and Modern Dutch Artists, E. B. Greenshields https://ia902605.us.archive.org/6/items/landscapepaintin00greeuoft/landscapepaintin00greeuoft.pdf; The Copp, Clark, Co. Limited, Toronto, 1906, p. 150 <br class="br">Jacob Maris painted many 'Dutch City' paintings, in which he combined different parts of the cities Amsterdam, Dordrecht, Delft and Rotterdam
Jesse Jackson (1941) African-American civil rights activist and politician
Prayer during the Poor People's Campaign march in Washington, DC (21 May 1968)
Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Variant: If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower