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've never had a highly developed sense of being female. The sexuality has either been stopped, or else it's been an exaggerated P J Harvey kind of sexuality.
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When I was in college I was accused of being a goody two-shoes. But every goody two-shoes has a bad side.
I love to listen to people talk, especially when they're being really honest and they're not trying to sound any particular way.
Writers have a reputation for being distracted. That's because writers are distracted. They are always tuned into that other voice, the one in their head that rarely turns off.
For me, as an actress, being a dancer has helped me. I've done it with my feet bloody.
Everyone just talks about the problems our teenage girls are facing and what they're dealing with. But there was, to me, a void in how they were being served or helped. I thought, 'Wow, I'd love to create something.'
Being senior enough in the field, having enough solidity, I don't feel afraid of being marginalized.
Studying organisms at a molecular level was totally compelling because it was moving from being a naturalist, which was the 19th-century kind of science, to being very focused and really getting to the heart of these molecules.
We're involved in a very large study that's federally funded and being done with Kaiser Permanente, and saliva is a very non-invasive way to get cells from the body.
If we think of our chromosomes - they carry our genetic material - as being like shoelaces, I work on the plastic tips at the end that protect them.
That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.
If you see a tick on your body, be sure to remove it immediately. Use tweezers to pull the tick's body away from your skin, being careful not to crush the tick's body.
I think that, back in the day, there used to be a lot of horror films that kind of had a checklist of what went into making the 'perfect horror film', and I think now people are raising the bar...
Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted.
I got into running when I was being mentored by my coach. I tried it and developed a passion for it.
Any natural, normal human being, when faced with any kind of loss, will go from shock all the way through acceptance.
Being the chief minister of a regional government is just a pastime compared with the hellish job of being prime minister of two different communities brought together.
I realized that with African American people, where we've been blocked from being all that God meant for us to be, I don't have time to be patient.
