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.. .. "My life, most of it doesn't add up to much that I could relate as a way of life that you would approve of. I move around a lot. Not because I'm looking for anything really, but 'cause I'm getting away from things that get bad if I stay." Jack
Nicholson's character, Bobby Dupea
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Self-Limiting
High Potential Persons.. etch enduring pathways over time by repeating
their characteristic self-defeating methods... this tendency can evolve
into a general self-limiting style. ....
Each style represents a way in which what is possible and realizable in a person's life is habitually prevented or lost. [one of the styles:] Rebels aggressively strike out at the world and go against authority. Often suspicious of what they feel are others' attempts to exploit or control them, they struggle fiercely or simply refuse to comply. The character portrayed by Jack Nicholson in "Five Easy Pieces" is a rebel. He comes from a patrician family devoted to the arts, and as a child he was a prodigy at the piano, but later, feeling that he could not meet his father's expectations, he abandoned the life he knew to work in the oilfields near Bakersfield, California.
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.. .. I am proud that I can maintain my traditional customs while living in today's world. .... The true soul of my music reflects all aspects of my cultures. .... The term "Urban Indian" is a description of the life of an American Indian who respects and honors the old ways and traditional customs of Native culture while exisiting, thriving and achieving in the larger, non-Native society. |
.. .. musician Jana -- a member of the Lumbee tribe quotes
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Irene Bedard has mostly played Native parts, sometimes not, and that's fine by her. "I want to be known as a Native American, but also to let people know how Native people live now. "Why not have this lawyer who grew up on the rez but is now living in New York City? I'm saying: let's bring us into the mainstream."
Cowboys & Indians article Nov 1999
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Kansas Kristen Begaye has learned a lot from her reign as the 2002-03 Miss Indian Teen World. 
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..Begaye has also served as the 2000-01 Miss Northern Navajo and 1998-99 Miss Tse Daa K'aan (Hogback Chapter).
Now she is spreading her knowledge in the form of music hoping to inspire other Navajo children to learn more and be proud of their culture.
"I've seen a lot of the youth out there and they're lost," Begaye said in a telephone interview. "They're looking for leadership and they need to be realistic and accept who they are as Native Americans." She said the youths need to find themselves and not imitate other cultures. The example she used is how young adults are drawn into the mainstream genres and imitate by slang, attitude and lifestyles influenced through music, music videos and movies.
"The youth of today are going to be the main characters later on," she added. "We need to learn self identities. It tells of who you are and there are a lot of youths that are searching for who they are. Mainly, what they need to learn are their clans because that's your self-identity."
from article Miss Indian Teen World Begaye records new CD By Jan-Mikael Patterson, Navajo Times September 25, 2003
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Well there are many layers to her character, I think, because [Wendy] is a girl just on the edge of being.. you know, she's still a child, but then she's suddenly been introduced to this grown-up way of thinking. But she doesn't want to be a grown-up, she doesn't want to grow-up herself. So, there are many layers. She's very adventurous and outgoing, but then she can be quite feminine, quite girly at times as well. So she's quite a deep character, I think.
Rachel Hurd-Wood - about her character Wendy Darling
in "Peter Pan" [filmforce.ign.com interview Dec 2003]
...Peter Pan: The Complete and Unabridged Text
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Often what happens with gifted women is that they do a lot of things very well, and their essential self, what I call
the daimon, the essence of who and what they are, gets lost in the process....The gifted who are acclaimed in society are people in what's called the 'attention economy' -- the media. ... For every Barbra Streisand, you may have thousands of other highly talented people who never get to be seen in the media.
Jean Houston - from interview
I was very committed to being a student while I was there [Yale]. So much so that I'm in disbelief that I had ever acted before. That was confusing. That really challenged my sense of self for a while, but I think in a really positive way, because I was very careful not to lament my choices in life. I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again.
Claire Danes ... [filmforce.ign.com July 01, 2003]
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You know what I like to think of myself as being? You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like -- that part of the old is coming through the new. And the colors are blending, and I'm just here to appreciate them and not disdain them. When I look old or shabby I just say, "I'm not here to do that." ///
We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves pleasure. We need role models who are going to break the mold.
Carly Simon ... Interview mag. July 2004 / photo from CarlySimon.com
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Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When this happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on the open sea. That is called Pentimento, because the painter "repented," changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.
Lillian Hellman - in her memoir Pentimento
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As for other people doing one-person shows, please have a specific and different point of view, not just, "Oh, this is what happened to me on the way to becoming an actor." .. We all have stories. Yours better be interesting, or weird or funny if you think you should share it with the world. Mine was called "Black Like Who?" and was about growing up black in a white suburb.
And believe me, the journey of a black girl who had to hide her Valley Girl accent and love of Duran Duran, and learn to be "black" to make it in Hollywood, has some good yuks in it, if not for the slide show of my prom pictures alone.
Merrin Dungey - from popgurls.com interview / photo from thewb.com Summerland site
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"I never really thought of myself as a sex goddess; I felt I was more a comedian who could dance" Rita Hayworth (1918-1987) [quote from imdb bio]
related books :
Rita Hayworth: A Photographic Retrospective
Being Rita Hayworth : Labor, Identity, and Hollywood Stardom
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What Sarah Flannery produced [at age 16] is a new algorithm through which data can be encoded and encrypted. ... One interviewer made the mistake of referring to her as "the little genius from Blarney." "I absolutely hated the word," Flannery says. "I know geniuses, and I know for a fact that I'm not one. It puts an awful lot of pressure on you. People expect you to know the answers to everything, you know?"
Sarah Flannery is finishing her final year at Cambridge University. .. [Esquire, Dec 2002]
**In Code: A Mathematical Journey by Sarah Flannery
".. at age she 16 won the titles of 1999 Irish Young Scientist of the Year and
European Young Scientist of the Year for her innovative work on cryptography."~ ~ ~ ~
Companies are "hooking teens into a cycle of labor and shopping during their youth." Some teenagers have "bleak and atrophied familial relationships... they pour themselves into a brand and see themselves through objects, rather than through people or ideas."
...from Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers by Alissa Quart
I bet I'm beginning to make your parents really nervous -- here I am sort of bragging about being a dropout, and unemployable, and secretly making a pitch for you to follow your creative dreams, when what they want is for you to do well in your field, make them look good, and maybe also make a tiny fortune. But that is not your problem. Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued.
Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
Anne Lamott- commencement address, UC Berkeley, excerpted in her Salon.com column June 6, 2003
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The movie ["Camp"] portrays young people who are really passionate about fine arts
as misfits. How close do you think this is in real life?Joanna Chilcoat: It's very easy, as a young person to feel alone and like a misfit. Until a person really blossoms and becomes comfortable with who they are, there's no way that anybody else can be comfortable with who you are.
I think a lot of people, teens, just feel very alone. Kids in the arts especially, because they have this passion and great respect for the arts. Kids can be cruel. When other kids don't have respect for something that's different than what they're used to, they can be even crueler.
As far as being misfits, I think everybody is a misfit but kids in the arts feel it even harder. ... It's important to have a place to go where it's okay to be you, to be different and stand out or fit in. That's one of the points that the movie makes. It's okay. We all have places where we can be us.
from interview: The Kids From "Camp" by Lynn Barker, teenhollywood.com July 24, 2003
photo: Joanna Chilcoat as Ellen in "Camp"*related pages:.....social reactions / interactions: teen/young adult.......intensity / sensitivity.......self-esteem / self concept~ ~ ~ ~
I believe that the more people are seen portraying roles that are not defined, but rather enhanced, by their race/age/gender/sexual orientation/presence or absence of disability, the more possibilities exist for seeing into the characters' souls.
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..Though it can be argued that many characters are driven by their race/age/gender/sexual orientation/presence or absence of disability, the complexity that is attained by challenging these assumptions can also create great drama.
Labels are very conveniently applied to every human being that walks the face of the earth. Perhaps if we encourage looking beyond labels, stereotypes and what is expected, we can stretch tolerance, open minds and encourage seeing each other's role-model worthy qualities. ...
You are not powerless, as an Actor, in all this. It's not a simple solution, but we also can't be met halfway if we don't do our share of the travelling. Continue to strive for excellence, then flaunt it by auditioning for the unexpected.
Challenge your own perceived and preconceived casting limitations by knocking them down. Be your own role model.
Christine Toy Johnson - from her article The Question of Role
Models - from her site christinetoyjohnson.com*related pages:....androgyny / gender~ ~ ~ ~
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Far too often gifted people are labeled (e.g. "egg-heads," "geeks," and "nerds"), or portrayed in movies as social dunces who stumble around awkwardly in unkempt clothes, appearing preoccupied and out of touch behind thick horn-rimmed glasses. Traditionally the term gifted has conjured up images such as the temperamental artist who throws tantrums at the least provocation, or the pathetic isolate whose brainy abilities are lost in foolishness, alcoholism or chronic depression.
The polar opposite view of giftedness is just as problematic - a glittering mega-success elevated to an unreachable pedestal of human achievement - a superhuman whose inventions and efforts are expected to rock the world at every turn.
These sterotypes exclude the more common population of "ordinary" gifted people. Hence, those who are mildly to moderately gifted are inclined to automatically count themselves out. "Surely," they conclude, "if that is what giftedness looks like, it doesn't look like me. It is those others who are gifted, not I."
Mary-Elaine Jacobsen ....[Advanced Development, Volume 8, 1999]
...The Gifted Adult: A Revolutionary Guide for Liberating Everyday Genius - by Mary-Elaine Jacobsen
In movies and books, geniuses are nearly always troubled. .. In "The Royal Tenenbaums" .. Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow), who received a playwriting grant while in the ninth grade, now sits in a bathtub and paints her toenails. ...
In Hollywood, you can never be too rich or too thin, but you can be too smart. It's OK to have a beautiful face. It's not OK to have a beautiful mind. Smart people are socially inept, inward-looking and compulsive, bedeviled by their obsession with whatever it is that they do....
from article: So Smart It Hurts
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"The Royal Tenenbaums":
Gwyneth Paltrow,
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Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it is we did wrong, but we think you're crazy for making us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basketcase, a princess, and a criminal. Does that answer your question? Sincerely yours, The Breakfast Club.
The Breakfast Club (1985) starred Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy
There seems to be a vast mix of females in the music industry; from Norah Jones to Avril Lavigne to Pink -
where do you see yourself in terms of style amongst these artists? .. [message board posting]At the risk of sounding vain, I see myself as completely different than any other artist. I've discovered that the less I try to compare myself with someone else, the more apt my true and genuine sound and interpretation will be unique. Also, I feel like I am constantly changing and growing... so a style that may fit today, might not fit tomorrow.
Gloria Reuben- from her official site
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As a child I always felt different. I was sure that the stuff that was going on in my head was not going on in other people's heads. I wanted to believe that I was adopted or an alien or something. I looked exactly like both my parents so that did not work. Instead I decided I just had to be plain crazy.
I believed also that everything could talk including my dolls, paintings on the wall, and my pets. I had assorted dogs, cats and guinea pigs all at the same time. So to have a mouse that talked seemed perfectly natural to me.
Geena Davis- referring to being a mother in her Stuart Little films.. [imdb.com interview]
In 1964, Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. He declined the award. Existentialist Sartre argued that each individual must create meaning for their own life... He wrote, "We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us."
Jean-Paul Sartre [1905-1980] is author of Being and Nothingness
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We are really a different generation of women. This isn't something that just hit me one day. It came organically. I wasn't like my mother or my grandmother or my tias [aunts]. I was a new being that took the best they offered me but let go of the taboos that also held me back. I am definitely an American-made woman with all of the richness of the Latino culture. I think it's kind of hot.
Sandra Guzman [LA Times May 8, 2002]
author: The Latina's Bible : The Nueva Latina's Guide to Love, Spirituality, Family, and La Vida
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"I still haven't gotten to the core of who I am and what I want to do in my life. It's like I've got a garden, and it's got a lot of weeds; things need to be done to it, but it has a lot of potential to be reborn. As much as I've loved doing for my child, I need to get back there. Becoming the person I'm meant to become, that's all I want." [Vanity Fair - May 2000] "The other night I told Alec, `When you are dealing with people, remember that sometimes they are still only thirteen-year-olds.' Basically, you're left in that school lunchroom and you are going to deal with it the rest of your life until you face your insecurities." Kim Basinger [Ladies Home Journal, 1998]
photo of Kim Basinger from book: Timothy White: Portraits
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Commenting on print images of Kim Novak, the portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh said, "the clippings lied. They made her out to be just another stereotyped glamour girl. It is remarkable how misleading this is. She has great sensitivity. She's warm, human. I think she has been misrepresented, caricatured." from article Women in Film: Identity and Power
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| The reason people achieve the what
and then wonder why they're still so unhappy is that they've left the who
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There is no doubt that there is some synergy between what and who and that the causality of the two are entrenched. However, I believe that the who causes the 'what'. Even if you end up doing a 'what' (in this case a job) that is not the right match for you it was still prompted by who you thought you were when you chose to take it. It may have meant that your self-concept at the time was that you had to take whatever came along because you lacked the confidence to hold out for the ideal scenario. Many times the 'whats' we choose help to further evolve the 'who'. That's why mistakes are OK. They grow the 'who'. Laura Berman Fortgang - from Ask Laura / Q&A Archive on her site***author of Living Your Best Life |
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I appreciate that people like my movies, but that is not who I am. I am a wife and mother... I write books for children. That is who I am, and those are the elements that have given me the self-esteem that I have today. Being in the movies gave me money, fame and notoriety, but it did not give me self-esteem. Jamie Lee Curtis**[Psychology Today, Sept/Oct 2002] -- [photo: with children Annie and Thomas [from publisher site harperchildrens.com]
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I think I would like to call myself "the girl who wanted to be God." Yet if I were not in this body, where would I be - perhaps I am destined to be classified and qualified. But, oh, I cry out against it. ....Sylvia Plath
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