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.
In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.
I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.
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I guess from my perspective being a female athlete as well, there's probably not a huge amount of female athlete books out there.
Being together on the field as a group, operating as a team, making important plays is a great thing.
I love being put into situations which are competitive and tough and challenging.
The easiest way to propagandize people is to let a propaganda theme go in through an entertainment picture when people do not realize they are being propagandized.
I decided to write Westerns because there was a terrific market for Westerns in the '50s. There were a lot of pulp magazines, like 'Dime Western' and '10 Story Western' that were still being published. The better ones paid two...
I've always been drawn to stories and telling them; whether it was through being a part of theater when I was a little kid, or film, or with music, there's just been an innate desire to feel that connection.
A computer is a general-purpose machine with which we engage to do some of our deepest thinking and analyzing. This tool brings with it assumptions about structuredness, about defined interfaces being better. Computers abhor error.
UNIX always presumes you know what you're doing. You're the human being, after all, and it is a mere operating system.
Through the miracle of natural genetic recombination, each child, with the sole exception of an identical twin, is conceived as a unique being. Even the atmosphere of the womb works its subtle changes, and by the time we emerge into...
I just want to keep being creative, and I want to feel inspired by a role, and I want to keep acting.
The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.
It was fantastic returning to 'Being Human'. When I got cast in the role, at first I just thought it was for one episode, and the fans were really great about it, and it was really nice having that reaction.
I'm still very much about being an actor. That's why I'm not married with kids.
Even though momentarily I thought about being a doctor, I was always involved in theatre and did a drama degree. I just didn't have the guts to go, 'Yes, I'm going to be an actor,' until I was probably 21.
Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.
