Being Quotes
On identity, openness and staying true to yourself.
This set of quotes explores what it means to simply be: holding onto a child's spontaneity, embracing honesty that feels inappropriate in creative work, or aging with flexibility instead of resistance. For more on self-belief, see our Able quotes.
It's about being a voice in the community. There's so many ways to be a voice, and that's what I'm figuring out.
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Being an artist, being an actor, it's about telling stories that could heal, that could open up discussion that could make the community better.
No one knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart... it comes from being alive.
Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11.
I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.
Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft...
There's nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that.
There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.
Once, I thought I had a novel, and it turned out it was only a short story. I wrote about 800 pages, but it ended up being a short story. And if it ever happens to me again, I Will...
Losing the presidency is not like losing any other office. More than any other office, it's a vote about you as a whole human being.
To me, I love being able to see some of John C. Reilly's face in Ralph, and some of Sarah Silverman in Vanellope. That there are hints of them there. In the broad strokes, they are there.
Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.
There are things I want to say: They are very important to me, and, not being a writer, I do it through movies.
I have no great interest in being remembered as a great creative filmmaker.
I just say 'Amen' a lot. It's just about being grateful and never taking things for granted.
In New Zealand, we have a thing called 'tall poppy syndrome,' which, you might not have heard of it, but it's essentially where - it happens in small populations usually, but can actually happen in the U.K. - where, if...
