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I'm from Minnesota. I'm optimistic. I mean, that's just who I am.

I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.

I've been around long enough for people to know who I am and what my contributions are. They know me as more than just an artist. I think they know me as a woman as well.

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

It's funny because being comedic and happy and lighthearted is who I am as a person, so they're easier emotions for me to connect with.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

I still get awful depression. It's who I am.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

I've always been into working out and eating healthy. That's just who I am.

Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made people wary. First they called me a rock poet. Then I was a poet that dabbled in rock. Then I was a rock person who dabbled in art.

Probably the label 'Jesus freak' is fine with me. Because I know who I am.

I am a compassionate human being. I am who I am.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!

I'm finally just relaxed and comfortable with who I am.

I've realized that Evanescence is who I am.

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing, you're always right.' No, they tell me when I'm wrong, and that's why I've been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

I thought, I need to be more cautious about my choices - it reflects on who I am.

It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.

I have done some tacky films, but then they were all my decisions, and I'm happy to have made those because they have made me who I am.

There's a certain consistency to who I am and what I do, and I think people have finally said, 'Well, you know, I kinda get her now.' I've actually had people say that to me.

Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.

I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.

Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.

I'm getting my respect as a video director. The fashion industry respects me and knows who I am.

It's become another dimension to who I am. I don't think Sports Illustrated is going to be wanting me. But who cares? I'm at a different place in my life.

I had to learn how to trust my gut. Trust what I know to be right... not right, but not waver on who I am. Know who I am, know what I want, and know it. Not waver on it and be secure in that. And I still struggle with it. But I really... I can't be moved. You can't move me, and that all comes with loving myself, and I'm like my best buddy.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

Being outspoken about my faith isn't just something that I do; it's who I am because my faith isn't just a little piece of my life. It is my life. It's not a question of whether I'm outspoken about it or not. I'm definitely not ashamed of it.

No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.

I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing.

When I'm acting, I'm in a different place, singing is the last thing on my mind, and when I'm on stage, there's no acting at all involved, not even presentation, it's just who I am.

I'm a child of God. God is my mommy, my daddy. That's the only thing that'll keep my head up. If I don't remember who I am in him, I'm done.

I heard that I have three ribs, that I have more surgeries than Cher - whatever they say, they say; I know who I am.

I prefer musicals, because I am the best dancer who ever lived. The best plies, the best sashays, and by far the best-smelling Capezios.

I can't control what people think. They know who I am.

I am pretty controlled I have to say.

I identify with the regular person, because that is who I am.

I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.

I have been consistent by staying true to who I am and will continue to sing the type of songs that those who have continued to support my career expect from me.

I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.

I know right now she has no idea who I am, but I'd like to collaborate with Enya one day. Of course I'd love to work with Jay-Z, maybe even Phil Collins. I love his voice.

Hermione is so close to who I am as a person that I've never really had to research a role. I'm literally rediscovering what it means to be an actress.

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

I've tried and failed a lot. But I've also tried to be really clear about my brand. It is who I am. I'm a mum, I'm a wife, I'm 44 and from the Midwest.

My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy for a lifetime

My message of common-sense solutions is resonating with people. People around the country are starting to know who I am and starting to identify me with solutions, not rhetoric.

You know when I was 20 and 30, they were insecurities. Now they're just a new normal. I'm 60 years old, so my expectations of who I am and how I look and how I show up in the world had to shift. Not because I couldn't help it, or not because I did anything wrong, but because I had to get into the natural flow of my being as a woman.

I love to compete. That's the essence of who I am.

For the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It's so a part of who I am.

I am who I am, and I think I have a good nature, by and large. But if someone takes advantage of that good nature, well then, you know, I'm not that nice a guy.

I love who I am. I love what I've become.

For me, being Catholic was who I was and who I am, just like I'm Irish and Slovak. It's just so ingrained in us.

I was on cruise control from '85 to '95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when I was not doing any original material. I wasn't directing. I wasn't writing. That's not who I am.

People don't need to necessarily see me in the jersey to understand who I am and what message I'm trying to get across with the things that I'm marketing.

I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.

I obviously don't feel under pressure to look young, because I have had no Botox or surgery. I don't judge people who choose to have it, but I don't want to erase who I am.

I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.

I don't expect anybody to know who I am.

Nobody really knows who I am, where I came from, what's in my heart, why I believe in the things I believe, what I see behind the scenes and they don't see.

I was on the board of Andre Agassi's foundation, and seeing the way it operated blew my mind. In 2002, I told my wife, I want to start a foundation to give back, I want it to be for kids in hard circumstances, and I want it to be culinary-driven, because that's who I am.

People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am. Sometimes they think I'm Helen Hunt. Sometimes they think I'm Laura Dern.

I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.

I'm every woman. It takes a village to make me who I am.

I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.

I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am.

I don't know if I get recognized necessarily, though I do get looked at a lot - but I don't know if it's because of who I am, or if people just think I look weird.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.

I love my friends and my past, and it's made me who I am.

I grew up around the theatre. My mother is an actress. I would fall asleep on tons of theatre chairs. It's in my blood; it's in my spirit and my fabric of who I am.

Running is a part of my medicine. It's what helps relieve my stress, and it's what helps me get away from the concerns of business and anything else that's going on in my life that I need to escape from at times - to find who I am. Running really helps me with that.

When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.

And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.

I'm very secure about my talents and about who I am.

I'm reminded of who I am, who I was, and who I'm supposed to be.

I don't identify with anyone historically, but there are several people in the future who I am a dead ringer for.

For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, 'This is me. I'm not proud of it - in fact, I'm a little embarrassed by it - but this is who I am.

Be tenacious. One thing that has allowed me to have some level of success is that I am fine with cold-calling people. It doesn't scare me to call someone who has no idea who I am and say I'd love to take you to lunch.

I never regret anything I do. It's part of who I am now, and I like who I am now.

Who I am inside determines how I feel about my body instead of the other way around

Once I know who I'm not, then I'll know who I am.

I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.

I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.

I want to reclaim who I am.

I have no regrets in my life even the crazy things I've been in. It all made me the I am today and I wouldn't change anything. I'm happy with who I am!

When I walked down the streets, I asked myself, are these my people?, is this my hometown, am I who I am?

I am what I am - which is I have aged.

The blessing is that everyone knows who I am because of the commercials.

I am who I am and I have the need to be.

When I'm wasted, I can almost forget who I am," he said, his smile fading slightly. "I know I'm still there, but only barely. It's a good place to be." He tipped back the thermos, eyes on the dark sea straight ahead

You want me to come clean, I will. I'll tell you everything. Who I am and what I've done. Every last detail. I'll dig it all up, but you have to ask. You have to want it. You can see who I was, or you can see who I am now. I'm not good," he said, piercing me with eyes that absorbed all light but reflected none, "but I was worse.

Once you're away from music, I realize that's as intrinsic to who I am as anything else. That's the part that takes me out of my brain.

I've always been big. I'm never going to be an underwear model. But I am who I am, and that has its advantages and disadvantages.

All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I've been and how I got to where I am.

When I first moved to LA, no one could understand a thing I said, you would think I was speaking another language. Every time I would order something at Starbucks, they would go, 'Huh? What did you say?' My accent was an issue and my low voice was as well. They thought I should be more girlie. But that's who I am.

I'm still learning who I am. One minute I have black hair, the next it's red. One day I'm wearing Converse sneakers, and the next I'm in the hippie look.

I think the reason that a lot of people have to have a lot of people around is just about being smart and knowing what you want to talk about. I want people to know who I am. Respect is a huge thing - especially in my family. If you don't respect people, people aren't going to respect you back. It's just about yourself, you respecting others, and hopefully everyone else will follow that and respect you, as well.