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 like to see anyone suffer, and there's a very, very fine line between being healthy and working and totally down and out.
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I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.
First of all, I never set out to be a whistleblower. Secondly, I never expected that my story would be interesting to anybody. Third of all, you know, I was actually terrified of being named, of being identified.
I don't have to be a 'gazillionaire;' what's important to me is to just being able to work.
Being editor-in-chief of the 'Guardian' and 'Observer' is an enormous privilege and responsibility, leading a first-class team of journalists revered around the world for outstanding reporting, independent thinking, incisive analysis, and digital innovation.
I thought 'Garfunkel and Oates' would be too confusing, but it ended up being confusing in the best of ways because the first time we played a comedy club, it was because they thought we were the real Garfunkel and...
They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.
What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.
I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.
Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
Let's face it - being a nurse, a single mom of eight kids, I would not be able to provide for them in any way shape or form.
Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
