{"quotes":[{"text":"Rumors run wild when one sacrifices for self and temporarily forsakes those who assume entitlement to one's persona.","author":"T.F. Hodge","tags":["entitlement","forsake","person","persona","rumors","sacrifice","self","self-help"],"id":18421,"author_id":"T.F.+Hodge"},{"text":"The outfit, tight in places, and loose in some, says as much in the buttons as it does in cuffs.","author":"Kristen Henderson","tags":["artifice","artless-poem","button","clothes","cuffs","fashion","loose","outfist","perfect-poem","persona","tight"],"id":33010,"author_id":"Kristen+Henderson"},{"text":"(reporter interviewing Broadway dancer Tommy Tune:) 'Do you think that greats like Fred Astaire possessed some kind of magic?'(pause)'No. Magic possesses them'.","author":"Tommy Tune","tags":["artistry","creativity","magic","persona","star-power","talent"],"id":38662,"author_id":"Tommy+Tune"},{"text":"Using the voice is a physical act, one that first announces the existence of the body of residence and then trumpets its arrival in a public space.","author":"Elizabeth Alexander","tags":["identity","persona"],"id":52687,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Alexander"},{"text":"When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all—because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies.","author":"Eva Hoffman","tags":["acting","fantasy","imagination","introspection","mask","mirror","persona","reality","self","self-awareness","self-presentation","stage"],"id":54484,"author_id":"Eva+Hoffman"},{"text":"He hasn’t really seen you, not as you want to be seen, but he’s starting to, a little.","author":"Colleen Chen","tags":["infatuation","love","persona","perspective"],"id":60482,"author_id":"Colleen+Chen"},{"text":"The most important thing in business is a persona, Nico,' he was fond of saying. 'People want to know immediately what they're dealing with. And when they think about you, you've got to stand out in their minds--like one of those characters in a novel.","author":"Candace Bushnell","tags":["business","nico-o-neilly","persona","stand-out"],"id":65075,"author_id":"Candace+Bushnell"},{"text":"Be sure that whatever you are is you.","author":"Theodore Roethke","tags":["persona","personalities","self-awareness","self-identity"],"id":68329,"author_id":"Theodore+Roethke"},{"text":"It's good when a man deceives your expectations, when he doesn't correspond to the preconceived notion of him. To belong to a type is the end of a man, his condemnation. If he doesn't fall into any category, if he's not representative, half of what's demanded of him is there. He's free of himself, he has achieved a grain of immortality.","author":"Boris Pasternak","tags":["individuality","misconception","originality","persona","self"],"id":96826,"author_id":"Boris+Pasternak"},{"text":"The difference between me and other people is that they all walk around with onion skins wrapped around them. Pre-meditations, pretentions, the faces that they present to the world, the faces that they present to themselves.. Onion skins that come in layer after layer. They're on the inside of all that. And I... I am the inside of the onion skin walking around. I am only me.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["inspirational","inspirational-life","inspirational","life","living","onion-skins","people","persona","the-world"],"id":143018,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":33,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}