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 loved Woody Allen's short pieces. I was equally influenced by Woody Allen and Norman Mailer. I was very into this idea of being high-low, of being serious and intellectual but also making really broad jokes.
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It was a challenge for me to do a plot because I'd been an essayist and a journalist. I had to be vigilant about moving things along and being entertaining.
Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users' sentiments.
Just being there at the Olympics, you kind of just take in every single moment.
I was just used to being in shape, and getting out of it was really difficult for me.
Make sure your desire to do what you're aspiring to do is deeper than just fame and being a celebrity.
Pretty isn't the only thing that matters - being smart and kind matters more, of course - but all daughters should hear from their moms that they look pretty once in a while.
If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had...
Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal.
There's a tremendous amount to be gained from being a performer, and being an artist, and being an actor.
One of the best things my mother passed on to me was being an efficient multitasker.
When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.
I'm big on my kids being conventionally polite, and it works really well for them.
Comedy is free therapy. And if it's done well, the audience and the comic take turns being the doctor as well as the patient.
Comedy comes from tragedy, and being Iranian in America from 1979 on had been quite tragic. In stand-up comedy, I was able to take the reality and exaggerate it.
At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known.
I was a really crazy kid. I'm still a crazy kid. That's the nice thing about being in a rock band. You can feel 14 forever.
