Am Quotes

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going.

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.

I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am. Sometimes they think I'm Helen Hunt. Sometimes they think I'm Laura Dern.

When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.

I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.

I am 30, but there are things about me that are still 15.

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.

I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.

I'm not the person in person that I am on stage.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.

I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded.

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

You can only be free if I am free.

Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good thing because it's supposed to be poison. If it's making the tumor feel this queasy, then I'm OK with it.'

I am a big 'Ellen' fan. I have been one for quite a long time now. I used to do the local news talk shows with her in San Francisco, when we were both still kids.

I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.