Pamela Hansford Johnson Quotes

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

You don't have to be a certain thing to be cool. If you're white, you don't have to act black or whatever. Just be you and know who you are.

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

Society loves to put bubbles up there and pop them, and I resent it. I'd rather expose myself myself.

A lot of Asian girls love being basic because it's safe. But the thing is, a lot of my fans are those girls, and they want to be bolder, but there's no one they could look up to and be like, 'It's OK to be that way.'

People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same thing.

It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with.

It's funny: people who meet me say, 'I thought you'd be different.' But I'm still the same guy.

My friends know that they're my friends - even my enemies know that they're my friends.

Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.

The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

I do not want to work to correspond to an image.

I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are.

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.

My love of country admits of no limitations, makes no concessions…It is …blind, prejudiced and passionate.

I would rather die having spoken in my manner, than speak in your manner and live.

I can't think of anything worse, really, than to try to live up to someone else's expectations of what you should be. You don't make art by consensus.

I've always wrestled against being typified in one way or another.

I want to be able to wake up and feel like, 'Eh, I feel like wearing this!' Or talking to that person. It's so much more work to have to stay in that box to fit in, 'Mean Girls' style.

There is always a reverence issue, and I'm no different from any audience member that if someone's adapting a book or comic that I like, I really don't want them to screw it up.

I don't think that the next generation should fear just being who they are rather than confirming to an expectation of what they are meant to be.

You have to be completely brave and sincere about what you're doing to just not ever compromise and change it to what you think someone else might want.

People aren't allowed to be themselves in snooker.

The problem is that people have an idea of what a footballer should look like, how they should behave, what they should talk about. If you act a little differently you become a target. There is pressure to conform. This is very dangerous.