being what you want to be Quotes

“Blue said we have to choose who we want to be, not let the situation choose us.”

“The truth is—and how long it has been true, I’m not sure, but it was true in my generation and it is true of girls growing up today—an American woman no longer has a private image to tell her who she is, or can be, or wants to be.”

″‘What do I need to do to become the me I want to be?’ ‘You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.‘”

″‘And what you going to do, Richard? What you want to be?’ And his face clouded. ‘I don’t know. I got to find out. Looks like I can’t get my mind straight nohow.‘”

“She had gone so far now, she had broken so many rules and said such wicked things, that she knew she would suffer the most severe punishment; and since what was done could not be undone, she was free to be as bad as she wanted to be.”

″‘An actor?’ Bore blurted as if it finally got through to him. ‘Dad, it’s the only thing I’m really interested in doing. I want to go to acting school right after graduation. Everyone says that’s what I should be, with my imagination—’ ‘Try eating your imagination when you’re hungry sometime.‘”

“In truth, it wasn’t the man on the bridge that made the teenage boy want to be a policeman. It was the teenage girl who was standing on the same railing a week later that made him want it. The one who didn’t jump.”