#individuality

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#excellence #greatness #individuality #individuality

People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#individuality #mac

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

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In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

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For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

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To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task. ↗

— Cyril Cusack

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You love your work. God help you, you love it! And thats the curse. That's the brand on your forehead for all of them to see. You love it and they know it, and they know they have you. Do you ever look at the people in the street? Aren't you afraid of them? I am. They move past you and they wear hats and they carry bundles. But that's not the substance of them. The substance of them is hatred for any man who loves his work. That's the only kind they fear. I don't know why ↗

— Ayn Rand

#creativity #individuality #life-truths #the-fountainhead #art

Let others determine your worth and you're already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves. ↗

— Peter V. Brett

#confidence #individuality #confidence

I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking. ↗

— George MacDonald

#identity #individuality #creation