“I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society …. these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.”
Encountering Directors interview (1969)
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Milan Lach (1973) Slovak Jesuit and Greek Catholic priest
Source: Meet Jesuit Byzantine Bishop Milan Lach https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2018/09/04/meet-jesuit-byzantine-bishop-milan-lach (4 September 2018)
“I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.”
Bob Newhart (1929) American stand-up comedian and actor
Mem Fox (1946) Australian academic and children's writer known for picture books
Source: Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever
Anne Bancroft (1931–2005) American actress
Interview on her role in the Broadway play "Two for the Seesaw". The New York Times (1958).
“I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Source: The Book of Disquiet
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
Donald Miller book Blue Like Jazz: nonreligious thoughts on Christian spirituality
Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)
Bruce Baillie (1931) American film director
As cited in: P. Adams Sitney Professor of Visual Arts Princeton University (2002) Visionary Film : The American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000,
“Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am.”
Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven
Katie, Chapter 29, p. 236
Variant: Maybe I’d like to
be defined by what I am.
Source: 2009, Safe Haven (2010)