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.
At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.
I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
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I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.
It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.
For me, being an 'American Latina' means identifying with and being influenced by both my American upbringing and my Latin heritage, and I have so much appreciation for how those two cultures have created who I am.
It's rare that you see Latin families being portrayed as intelligent, sophisticated, and powerful entities.
I like communicating and being open and committing. That, for me, has always been something that I like to do.
The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.
I see far stronger and more charismatic personalities strolling around Philadelphia's neighborhoods than are being featured in most of today's bland daytime soaps.
I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking.
When I wrote 'The Assistants,' I knew very much that I wanted to write about income inequality and student loan debt and the gender wage gap, but I wanted to put it in a really slick, fun package. That book...
I think the skyrocketing cost of a college education has placed it in the sphere of being a luxury-priced necessity.
At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.
In high school, I was obsessed with '60s and mod. It was about the look, and also about not being part of whatever the standard was.
I played semi-professionally for a season, and there's an element of performance to being a footballer, stepping onto the pitch: you feel like a gladiator walking into a colosseum.
I've used songwriting as a tool, I've used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel.
I'd gone from being a normal HR worker from Hull to being recognised in the street, being on TV. As much as it was exciting, thrilling, and a big, huge adrenaline rush.
AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.
I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill.
