#entity

A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he's any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

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Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced. ↗

— Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

#designers #early #experienced #identity #most

There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity. ↗

— John Doerr

#express #i #i think #identity #large

Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#african americans #any #bad #bad thing #created

As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together. ↗

— Edmund White

#confirm #desperately #excuse #i #identity

I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance... my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don't really know how to react now that petition has been granted. ↗

— Toby Young

#been #being #celebrity #establishment #got

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity. ↗

— Peter Straub

#eventually #feel #fiction #fiction writers #forms

I mean, movies in general tend to sort of portray time, space and identity as these very solid things. Time moves forward. Space is what it is. You are you, and you're always you. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#forward #general #i #identity #mean

I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be. ↗

— Seth Gordon

#am #i #i am #identity #interested

The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose. ↗

— Richard Grant

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