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 typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair.
No kid is seeking anything when he joins a gang; he's always fleeing something. He's not being pulled; he's being pushed by the circumstances in which he finds himself.
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When I was 17, my dad was teaching in the States. He hired an A-Team-style van, and we drove all over. My resounding memory of it was that we saw all these wonderful places but that my sister and I...
Being a teacher was great, but it wasn't what I wanted to do, so it was ultimately crushing.
Hmmmm... It's fun being in front of people, playing shows and all. But hotels? Being away from home? That's different.
My game is about being aggressive, and I'm not the same player if you take that away from me.
A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing.
Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in.
I have to use all these programs that cut off the internet, force me to be bored, because being bored is an essential part of writing, and the internet has made it very hard to be bored.
Writing 'Father Ted' with Arthur Mathews was like being hooked up to a drip full of endorphins.
Being bad at stuff is hard, and we all deal with it every day because we're all bad at stuff.
Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.
I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.
Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity.
I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope with being stationary.
The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.
What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me.
I found that being top put all the pressure on second place, not first. The focus is on the second-place team, who can't afford to slip up again.
