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For years, I kept the two separate: Michael Horse the artist and Michael Horse the actor. I like the acting, but I'm an artist; that's my identity.
Michael Horse
Horse
Like
Identity
Years
Michael
Artist
Separate
Acting
Actor
Kept
Two
When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British.
Michael King
Home
People
Strong
Parents
Sense
Strong Sense
Had
Part
Spoke
New
Identity
Child
Being
New Zealand
Commonwealth
Grandparents
Zealand
Early
Coherence
Britain
British
I think as an actor... I don't like to compare a character to anybody else, just because I respect other people's work, and I want that character to have his own identity.
Michael Mando
Work
Character
Respect
People
Own
Think
Other
Else
Like
Identity
Because
His
Just
Anybody
Anybody Else
Just Because
Want
Compare
Actor
If I compared myself to my kids, they know everything, and they're like small little hackers. I feel also that my identity can be stolen; I'm very paranoid about it compared to other people in the younger generation.
Michael Nyqvist
Myself
Generation
People
Other
Everything
Kids
Paranoid
About
Small
Hackers
Feel
Like
Know
Also
Identity
Very
Stolen
Little
Younger
Younger Generation
Compared
As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.
Michelle Shocked
Life
Army
My Life
Before
Back
Musician
All My Life
Runaway
Had
Over
Look
Identity
Real
Been
Up
Brat
Any
Grew
Activist
Traveler
Traveling
I was brought up in many different cultures, moving around all the time, and I find my identity in my songs. I project the identity I want to have throughout the songs that I write.
Mika
Time
Project
Find
Brought
Throughout
Write
Songs
Identity
Around
Cultures
Up
Different
Want
Different Cultures
Moving
Many
I was terrible at interviews, lost in my own loss of identity and struggling at home as a wife and mother. It was a household that preferred me working, which threw me off completely.
Mika Brzezinski
Home
Me
Mother
Wife
Lost
Own
Interviews
Threw
My Own
Struggling
Household
Identity
Terrible
Loss
Off
Which
Preferred
Working
My identity is based around being a writer. I can't not write. It's a compulsion.
Mike Cernovich
Compulsion
Write
Writer
Identity
Around
Being
Based
While I was doing the first season of 'Girl In The City,' a lot of people remembered me through my character name. None of them knew my real name, and my onscreen name, Meera, became my identity.
Mithila Palkar
Character
Me
People
Girl
First
City
Onscreen
Through
Remembered
Knew
Name
Identity
Became
None
Real
Doing
Lot
Real Name
While
Them
Season
I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I'm from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
Mitski
Confusion
Not Knowing
Think
Find
Knowing
Identity
Comfort
Around
Where
Formed
Might
Whole
Even
If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
Mitski
Me
Crisis
Would
Would-Be
Identity
Itself
Where
Place
Found
Ever
Belonged
In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I'd never stayed in one place for so long.
Mitski
Long
First
Few
Crisis
Stayed
Never
Had
New
Major
Identity
Because
Years
York
New York
Being
Place
I've realized that it's important to stop trying to think I'm any one thing. People are confused as to their identity and try to cling to one aspect of that identity to describe what they are: American, Republican, Muslim. These are really incomplete.
Mohsin Hamid
People
Confused
Try
Important
Incomplete
Think
One Aspect
Muslim
One Thing
Identity
Cling
Trying
American
Any
Stop
Republican
Realized
Really
Aspect
Describe
Thing
When you come from a place and an identity, you can feel constricted and have to get away. But then you realise how much a part of you it is.
Morgan Neville
You
Part
Feel
Come
Identity
How
How Much
Get
Realise
Place
Then
Much
Away
'The Sound of Silk' will serve as a lens for larger questions about cultural identity in a global society and the potential for individuals to act as catalysts for change.
Morgan Neville
Change
Will
Society
Silk
About
Potential
Individuals
Global
Identity
Sound
Cultural
Questions
Lens
Act
Larger
Serve
Like the ancient Silk Road itself, 'The Sound of Silk' will make the foreign familiar while challenging long-held notions of identity and our place in the world.
Morgan Neville
World
Will
Our
Ancient
Silk
Road
Like
Identity
Make
Sound
Foreign
Itself
Familiar
Place
While
Notions
Challenging
I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.
Morley Callaghan
Life
Own
Think
Crop
Silly
Know
Identity
Sort
Sound
Up
May
Short
Stories
Short Stories
Places
Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.
Morrissey
People
Other
Other Countries
More
Higher
Disappears
Countries
Identity
Although
Anything
Against
England
British
If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.
Morrissey
You
Travel
Absolutely
Identity
Still
Germany
Sweden
Swedish
A-ha is not me, Paul, or Magne: it is its own individual that has its own identity and characteristics. It is a result of a particular meeting point between the three of us.
Morten Harket
Me
Result
Three
Own
Meeting
Characteristics
Point
Individual
Between
Particular
Identity
Paul
Us
I have one identity, and that's Israeli and Jewish. I don't view myself as an American citizen.
Naftali Bennett
Myself
Citizen
Identity
Israeli
American
American Citizen
View
Jewish
My father said, 'How many days can I promote your film? You need to get your own recognition and your own identity. I can't be there always. So do it yourself.' So now I work on promotion, and he steps in to help just before the release.
Naga Chaitanya
Work
You
Do-It-Yourself
Yourself
Father
Before
Own
Release
Recognition
Promote
Promotion
He
Steps
Days
Identity
Said
Always
How
Get
Just
Your
Help
Many
Film
Now
Need
The education ministry files suit every time there is a case of identity fraud.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Education
Time
Every
Every Time
Fraud
Ministry
Case
Identity
Files
Suit
My transactions are above board: I do not have money deposited in other accounts and have transparently declared all assets. My real wealth is, however, my experience as cofounder of Infosys and as Aadhar Chairman, which gave away 60,000 crore identity cards to people of India as promised.
Nandan Nilekani
Experience
People
Money
Wealth
Other
Gave
Promised
India
Above
Identity
Real
However
Accounts
Transactions
Which
Board
Chairman
Away
Assets
Cards
Claude Cahun is a fascinating artist - one of the few women to be part of the surrealist movement, she and her partner Suzanne Malherbe took on men's names and made artworks that investigated female identity long before 'The Second Sex' or Cindy Sherman.
Naomi Alderman
Women
Sex
Made
Men
Long
Partner
Before
Few
Took
Cindy
Part
Names
She
Identity
Female
Surrealist
Few Women
Artist
Movement
Fascinating
Her
Second
I was determined to create my own identity. My first hits, in fact, were straight-up rhythm and blues. My voice was compared to Aretha Franklin's - though, for my money, no one compares to Aretha.
Natalie Cole
Money
First
Own
Though
Franklin
Determined
My Own
Voice
Fact
Aretha
No-One
Identity
Were
Hits
Blues
In Fact
Rhythm
Create
Compared
Compares
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