Person Quotes

It's true I'm more widely recognised now and get invited to take part in all sorts of events and projects but as a person, I haven't changed.

In the last few years, losing my father, going through a divorce and not getting some jobs I really wanted, is making me a much more interesting person, I think. This all really does feel like a rebirth, a new chapter.

I'm quite an insecure person and need reassuring all the time.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.

We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.

I'm a really honest person.

It's really hard to grow with another person.

But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.

One person's crazyness is another person's reality.

One person's craziness is another person's reality.

I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.

I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.

I feel like when you're a celebrity, people dehumanize you and they forget you're a real person.

You can never connect on a deeper level if you idolise someone - you don't see the real person.

I plot the first 5 or 6 chapters quite minutely, and also the end. So I know where I am going but not how I'm going to get there, which gives characters the chance to develop organically, as happens in real life as you get to know a person.

I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general.

I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

Bobby Womack is always very real, both with his music and as a person.

I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work.

Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.

I'm the only person you've ever met who has read Longfellow.

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.

A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.

Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.

I can reach people the average person can't reach because I'm as grounded as I am.

Often something comes in from which you can see that the person is good, the book may not be perfect as it is, and the person doesn't want to do a re-write. That's something we do almost nothing of.

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.