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'd probably do something that involved music, a booking agent or working at a label, if not being an actual musician.
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There's a loss of autonomy that comes from not being able to own the wealth you've earned.
Performing is my passion. Being onstage is at once exhilarating, beguiling, and fulfilling. But it's hard.
I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.
If Kaepernick is trying to become a backup quarterback, and we're seeing guys like Mark Sanchez and Geno Smith being picked ahead him, then you can argue that he is being blackballed.
I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.
I think I'm a really hard worker, and I feel like my attitude is to just enjoy the process of being creative and developing and 'just throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks.'
Without a doubt, the worst part of being a mom is having to floss my kids' teeth every night. It's so tedious.
In my 30s, I wrote in the back house of a ramshackle Spanish Revival we rented across from the ocean in the Santa Monica Canyon. I wrote thousands of pages there, but in order to see another adult human being,...
There are jerks all over Washington. Life is short; being a jerk is just unnecessary.
Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.
Art is for the elite because it has a very high price-point of entry. And when one is in that social strata, they look down at illustrators because they just draw things directly for a few hundred dollars, and that's...
