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.
My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental.
I am the greatest Angela Bassett fan. She is such a fine human being and so steady.
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I think the firmness in one's stance can be conveyed in a different manner without being indecent or using harsh words.
India continues to be guided by the principles of being non-interfering, non-prescriptive, and non-judgemental. In other words, India remains ready to provide any support but strongly believes that it is for the Arab countries to decide their destiny without any...
I see the effects of sexual and gender liberation all around me, just like you do, but I don't have a sense of being in the majority.
There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.
Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.
Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.
I never let my gender define me but in my whole driving career I only ever did one interview not being asked about being a female.
As F1 is a male-dominated environment, you have to prove yourself. And first of all that means being given the chance to prove yourself.
I'm a T-shirts, sweatpants, and jeans kind of gal; I dress really simply and comfortably. But one of the things I love about being an actor is that I get to wear amazing costumes.
I worry about kids and all they are exposed to. Kids get so bombarded with hard, commercial sounds. They don't even have a chance to develop the softer part of themselves without fear of being ridiculed.
The idea of being close to where pigments were mined - that's the first thing in making a painting, getting the material. And what's the last thing you do in making a painting? You put a frame around it.
Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate.
If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.
My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend, I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on,...
Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.
