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"I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off."
"I don't know that I'm beautiful or glamorous. I'm a pretty artificial looking person. I sure am flattered when people think I'm beautiful, but I think I'm leaning towards more cartoonish than beautiful. But I'm comfortable with who I am. And since I wasn't born as a natural beauty, I just make the most of what I've got."
"If you don't read, I don't know how to communicate with you...I can never express who I am in my own words as powerfully as my books can."
"I feel like I'm truly and genuinely proud and unafraid. I'm not scared of who I am."
"I think my biggest learning experience is that it’s okay to be who you are - you don’t have to exactly fit the mold of what people think a certain kind of career is. I think that discovery - of really knowing who I am and being okay with that and loving myself - was amazing."
"Style is innate to who I am. My father gave me a picture the other day. I must have been about seven, and I had on wing-tip shoes and some cool pants. I thought, 'Wow!'"
"I'm naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I'm lax about my career. None of my work defines who I am."
"People could see in me who I am now, an Olympic champ, the best in the world."
"I am comfortable with my body and embrace who I am. I love to work it."
"For 20 years I've had the privilege of representing Canada around the globe... first on the bike and then on my blades. The experiences have shaped me into who I am today."
"I fell in love with music by listening to R&B, & it's the core of who I am."
"The feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been on land all these years. So, in a roundabout way, I imagine it does inform my acting."
"Be tenacious. One thing that has allowed me to have some level of success is that I am fine with cold-calling people. It doesn't scare me to call someone who has no idea who I am and say I'd love to take you to lunch."
"Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay."
"I am a storyteller and a researcher, and I'm sorry the world has a hard time straddling the tension of those two things, but that's who I am."
"I don't like to be polarizing. It's not who I am."
"I owe it to my fans to be who I am. There's nothing fake about me."
"Someday the world is going to know who I am-just be hearing my first name."
"For me, my faith is a really big part of my life, and it is important for me to walk it out every day, .. Part of our faith as Christians is the command that we let people see who we are as Christians. I'm doing my part to show who I am and that I'm not ashamed of it."
"My parents [are my hero]. They've helped me be who I am."
