Persona Quotes - Page 10

• I already have the weird experience of having a name for myself personally that's connected to someone that's in the public eye. So you have me, Zooey Deschanel, and then there's Zooey Deschanel's public persona.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Eye, Names, Connected

  "She & Him". Interview with Mike Carriere, pitchfork.com. April 21, 2008.

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• There's confusional arousals, there are states in deeper sleep that can happen where people will go and they'll disappear and they'll take on some other persona. They'll commit some crime, but it's all when they are in a very deep stage of sleep. So you really need to have a very thorough evaluation.

  Shelby Harris

  Sleep, People, Arousal

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• So, one, that DJ Spooky is a lot you know this sort of wilder persona and then Paul Miller is more of a nuts and bolts kind of person, meaning just making sure all these things work.

  DJ Spooky

  Nuts, Kind, Spooky

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 8, 2010.

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• I spent three years researching American Rose, research that included connecting with Gypsy's sister, the late actress June Havoc (I was the last person to interview her) and Gypsy's son, and also spending countless hours immersed in Gypsy's expansive archives at the New York Public Library. I became obsessed with figuring out the person behind the persona.

  Karen Abbott

  New York, Son, June

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• If I begin a poem, "I am a donkey," reason kicks in and says, "She is taking on the persona of a donkey." But if I write, "I have taken so many drugs I can't see my feet," the tendency is to take that as a confession on the part of the poet. Maybe that doesn't matter. I'd almost prefer for it to be the other way round.

  Matthea Harvey

  Taken, Writing, Feet

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I am uneasy about the practice of other people telling you how to write. This is especially true for beginners who haven't yet developed their style and their writer's persona and are easily pushed off the course.

  Yuriy Tarnawsky

  Writing, Practice, People

  "No Tall Tales: An Interview With Yuriy Tarnawsky". Interview with David Moscovich, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

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• I shaved a lot off of a lot that I saw in that I like to be less is more and make everything count and not give anyone anything extra. I was what you see is what you got. It was organic. I came up with the persona. The persona is me, coupled together with a lot of my interests.

  Bill Goldberg

  Giving, Together, Less Is More

  ""Bill Goldberg Talks To 411 About Whether WWE Has Contacted Him About Returning, WWE HOF Induction, Brock Lesnar’s UFC Fight, Developing the Goldberg Character, More" by Jeffrey Harris". 411mania.com. June 28, 2016.

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• When I said clean, I meant he [Barack Obama] was bright. Like when [Donald] Trump said about Carly [Fiorina], "face" he meant "persona."

  Joe Biden

  Faces, Clean, Trump

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• I teach that the foundation for our practice is being able to go inward and disconnect from the busyness of our thoughts, that focusing the mind on bodily sensations and breath will ground us in the present moment. Yoga is about realizing who you really are, aside from your persona.

  James Fox

  Yoga, Practice, Mind

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• Take the [1980] Jimmy Carter-Ronald Reagan debate. Carter kept trying to imply that somehow Ronald Reagan was going to push the button, or was irresponsible with nuclear war. You might have been able to make the case that Carter was responsible. But it's very tough when you see a person with Reagan's nice-guy persona up there to believe this guy somehow wants nuclear war, that he somehow wants to antagonize the Russians into an attack. It's just not credible; it doesn't cut with what all your other senses are telling you.

  Roger Ailes

  War, Nice, Believe

  Source: www.campaignsandelections.com

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• Whatever role we were in our family of birth, we take on this persona and in your 20s and 30s in particular, you end up thinking that's you and that isn't necessarily you.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Thinking, Roles, Birth

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• Women innately have this weird thing where they try to have a perfect persona - to look perfect, be perfect, act perfect, have their kids look a certain way. Women put so much pressure on themselves.

  Mila Kunis

  Kids, Perfect, Trying

  "Mila Kunis on Life With Ashton and Making Babies: 'There's Nothing We Don't Know About Each Other'". Interview with Jonah Weiner, www.glamour.com. July 6, 2016.

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• I had to imagine myself into certain aspects of [Julian Assange] character for our version of events. That involved extrapolating based on clues in his biography, his public persona, photographs, and other accounts of him by people who encountered him during that extraordinary period from 2007 to 2010 that we charted in the film [The Fifth Estate]. So, it involved a lot of research but, sadly, no contact with the man himself.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Character, Men, People

  'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' Interview with Kam Williams, pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• It's the way I feel about acting. That we are given clues by a writer about someone's essence or persona and it's our job to try to figure out which of those clues are true, which of clues we decide to follow and which of those clues we think are red herrings, or only in the way another character thinks of that character.

  Kevin Spacey

  Jobs, Character, Thinking

  "Kevin Spacey, Michael Shannon, Director Liza Johnson Kibitz ‘Elvis and Nixon’". Interview with Carole Di Tosti, blogcritics.org. August 8, 2016.

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• I've always tried to be honest, and it would be too difficult for me to develop some kind of persona. I don't have enough time or energy for that.

  Kathy Bates

  Energy, Enough Time, Would Be

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm still very careless about my public persona. Not careless so to speak but I'm not one for fame. I think fame is the worst part about it.

  Asher Roth

  Thinking, Speak, Fame

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• I think it's basically the same game, although with a public figure like [Donald] Trump I think you are bound to consider the public persona rather than the private one. At least that was the case with that piece of writing.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Thinking, Games

  Source: sojo.net

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• You just want to love Tim Matheson and just cuddle him. He's really - and he's gorgeous. He has much in common with [Ronald Reagan] Reagan's outward persona.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Want, Common, Gorgeous

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• [Bob Dylan] is a preacher but also a sinner; a poet but also a pitchman; authentic all-American but also invented persona.

  Jay Michaelson

  Bob, Poet, Dylan

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• There's the shared imagery between hip-hop and comics, with some producers and emcees taking on super hero personas.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Hero, Hip Hop, Emcee

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• [ Woody Allen] persona in the films are so iconic; it's like on par with Groucho Marx or something like that.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Film, Woody, Iconic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you sing, you put on a persona. I hide behind that person on stage. You can feel like death, but you have to put it on. The audience wants to see someone smiley.

  Susan Boyle

  Want, Smiley, Stage

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Everything I learned and didn't do in New York I would put into place here in the London West Hollywood. It's fascinating, when you look at the critics' reviews, and we had a great one in the New York Observer and all that, and then the New York Times came and it was a devastation; two stars out of four. They said that I played safe because it wasn't fireworks. Then they judged the persona over the substance that was on the plate.

  Gordon Ramsay

  New York, Stars, Two

  Source: www.crushable.com

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• The people who know the sort of personality or persona that I give across more on Twitter just realize that I'm just being messy and I'm just snatching wigs.

  Jason Roy

  People, Giving, Personality

  Source: www.nydailynews.com

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• I'm persona non grata at the New Yorker.

  Kevin Sessums

  New Yorkers

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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