#persona

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#being #deceived #differing #divisions #each

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#enable #force #his #impose #must

Personally, I was never the cool kid. I was always sort of a bookworm. I would just like to be more like Troy, because he's so cool. ↗

— Zac Efron

#because #cool #i #just #kid

But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives. ↗

— Calista Flockhart

#fascination #kills #lives #me #personal

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#both #classed #express #good #letters

The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security. ↗

— Louis Freeh

#american people #degree #exchange #give #must

My different personalities leave me in peace now. ↗

— Anna Freud

#different personalities #leave #me #now #peace

Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#collect #existed #form #friends #graphic

My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare. ↗

— Dane Cook

#dreams #i #living #nightmare #personal

You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities. ↗

— Rachael Leigh Cook

#flaws #granted #insecurities #into #know