Account Quote by Errol Morris

I want people to see themselves in a person. I never want someone to aspire to be someone else.

— Petra Collins

There are always certain things that you tap into, your own personal experiences, and I try to base my characters on someone I know…

— Stephen Graham

I actually see myself in all my characters. In order to imagine what it feels like to be another person I have to use…

— Elizabeth Strout

“Knowing one's 'individuality'. - We are too prone to forget that in the eyes of people who are seeing us for the first time…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If I'm meeting somebody for the first time, I don't look them up on Wikipedia, or I try not to, because I would not…

— Mary Gaitskill

I do believe you can be attracted by somebody at first sight. We have all done it.

— Delia Smith

I've always seen myself for who I am, which is a lot of things.

— Viola Davis

It's critical to be able to see things in other people that sometimes they don't see in themselves.

— Aja Brown

Nobody would know me from my own description of myself; which is why, when called upon (rarely, I grant) to provide an account, I…

— Claire Messud

Before we can realize who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person we think we are, here and…

— Thomas Merton

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Often, others see you, as you see yourself

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni