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 rejected being a lot of things that I grew up in, and yet I didn't. I got all my tactics from where I grew up... I can talk about all the people in those environments more than I can...
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I'd put the ninety-nine billion dollars - whatever it is - that's being appropriated for the Air Force and the Navy, and I'd put it into schools. I'd put it into traveling scholarships.
A lot of women - not all of them, a lot of them - feel insecure about men being men.
Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.
Education is very important, and the botanical garden is the place to do that. I grew up in a semi-rural area and learned from that being my playground.
My dad died 11 years ago, I don't see much of my brothers, and I rarely speak to my mum. I don't hold a grudge, but being separated in those early years clearly had an impact. Our relationship didn't develop...
So I think rather than being attracted so much now to working with my heroes, I'm sort of more attracted to working with completely unlikely strangers because it's more exciting really.
I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them.
Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
I always think about what's the difference between being tenacious and having an inability to learn from failures. The difference between the homeless guy who wanted to be a great painter and the guy who is a great painter could...
I've always prided myself on being the lowest-profile member of the Bush family.
Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
I have had periods when I've overused a word, 'candent' being one example, but I'm trying not to do that any more.
Sentimental is not bad, but it’s probably the most likely to go awry. It’s the hardest to do and not have it end up being 'Forrest Gump' or something. Maudlin - I just don’t want it to be maudlin.
