I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide.
Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.
The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character.
I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve years ago, there was a strong resurgence of Nazism in the places we were touring and part of that was on the music scene.
Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas.
When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.
Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.
My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly.
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
You manifest based on who you are already - so you must own the identity of the dream in order to manifest it.
With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.
Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.
If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.
The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.