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.
I don't know why, but I love sunflowers, and I just have this vivid memory of being in a field of sunflowers and how they felt like trees. They felt so tall.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.
Seriously, I don't find not being able to hear an obstacle or a boundary. For me, and for many of us, it is an advantage, and it's a part of my identity, in fact. It's a huge part of who...
I was constantly being sought after for money. And the vitriol that came my way from many who felt threatened by controversial aspects of 'for colored girls' was often frightening.
The box office performance of a film is instrumental in an actor being perceived as saleable.
I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.
The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds.
