“I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.”
“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”
“I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.”
“I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.”
“...no genius, I am a girl who knows too much to know anything at all...”
“I don't have to prove my worth and value to any but those I love, and that I do by being who I am, with confidence that those I love appreciate the good and accept the bad. Does anything else really matter?”