“You'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.”
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
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David Allen (1945) American productivity consultant and author
12 May 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/13858760270 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy
“I'd rather be a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of anybody.”
Liza Minnelli (1946) American actress and singer
Liza Minelli, interviewed by Gene Shalit in the September 1977 issue of The Ladies Home Journal, as quoted in "Women in the News," https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yXMjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=a2cEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5851%2C3647577 in The Sarasota Herald-Tribune (August 24, 1977), p. 6-D <br class="br">Variant: But I'd rather be a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of somebody else. <br class="br">Context: I don't sing them because I couldn't sing them as well as she did. I'd rather be a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of anybody.
“When somebody tells you you're different, smile and hold your head up high and be proud.”
Angelina Jolie (1975) American actress, film director, and screenwriter
“I would rather present a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of Mama.”
Liza Minnelli (1946) American actress and singer
Liza Minelli, as quoted in I Remember It Well (1975) by Vincente Minelli with Hector Arce, p. 395 https://books.google.com/books?id=D6jDtmiJCpkC&q=minelli+%22second-rate%22+%22first-rate+version%22&dq=minelli+%22second-rate%22+%22first-rate+version%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCoQ6AEwBGoVChMI0on3sqjdxgIVxHg-Ch1NhwVD; reprinted in "Judy and Liza, Part 3" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CfpjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WuYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7188%2C5401411 by Vincente Minelli, in The Sydney Herald (August 15, 1975), p. 8 <br class="br">Context: I couldn't sing Mama's special songs. I couldn't do them as well. I would rather present a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of Mama.
“There is nothing worse than having your personal problems become somebody else's entertainment.”
Maureen O'Hara (1920–2015) Irish-American film actress and singer
Source: Tis Herself (2004), p.239
Alec Douglas-Home (1903–1995) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Michael Cockerell, "Live from Number 10", p. 105.
A story told by Douglas-Home about going on television in the 1964 election.
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“I wanted to try to be a real live person, rather than just singing songs about them.”
Thao Nguyen (1984) American singer-songwriter
As quoted in "The Rumpus Interview with Thao Nguyen" in The Rumpus (5 August 2013) https://therumpus.net/2013/08/the-rumpus-interview-with-thao-nguyen/
Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist
Sometimes a Fantasy.
Song lyrics, Glass Houses (1980)