Kami Garcia Quotes

I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.

It wasn't that she was different from all the other girls at Jackson. That was obvious. It was that she made me realize how much I was just like the rest of them, even if I wanted to pretend I wasn't.

It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

It's so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.

Popular kids don't necessarily know who they are because they're so busy trying to conform. It's the outcasts who are more attuned to who they are. They're more self-aware, more real.

Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!

I always knew who I was, but everyone else wanted to me to be their 'idea' of the 'right' artist. At times, I even believed them.

They tell me what to wear, how to look, what I should say, how I should be. Until recently I had given into that pressure, I lost sight of who I was. I listened to opinions of people and I tried to change who I am because I thought others would accept me for it. And I realized I don't know how to be anything but myself.

Don't imitate. If you want to know who you are, please avoid imitation, that's a way of avoiding knowing yourself.

We are so ruled by what people tell us we must be that we have forgotten who we are.

Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?

Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.

A woman who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people’s evaluations. But no one can adapt perfectly to public opinion. And herein lies the source of their destruction.

You've got to be really dialed into exactly who you are to the one hundredth power or you're just everyone else.

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

First you have to know who you are. That is the most important thing, as if you don't know who you are you will either get swallowed up or you follow some unsuitable trends and just become a nonentity.

This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones.

To me, the most interesting part of 'True Blood' is that the entire crux of the show is based on identity and finding your true identity.

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

There's a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

Growing up in the acting world, you have a lot of opportunities to change who you are and what you believe in based on how people treat you. I never wanted to do that.