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.
There's a big difference between doing the odd gig and actually having a record out and your name being on the ticket.
Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was.
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I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold...
Email has the virtue - sounds like a bad thing, but it's the virtue of being the lowest common denominator messaging protocol. Everyone can have it. It can cross organizational boundaries. No one owns it. It's not some particular company's...
I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.
That's such a great thing about New York, after growing up in a place and being there for twenty plus years, there's still a whole island to discover.
There is an established tradition of actors directing films that have a particular, personal meaning for them - Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, and most recently George Clooney to name a few. Remarkably, their films share an unusually high...
I always hated being a child. I always felt like an adult trapped in a child's body.
I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.
I acknowledge that Hulu's easy accessibility probably keeps some people from pirating. But a respected industry analyst says less than 5% of TV content is being stolen today.
I started writing my own plays, and I would sell out, but after everything was said and done, I'd break even. That's being successful.
Not only have individual politicians and celebrities personally condemned your automobiles for being too messy, noisy, and harmful to the common good, but they've tried to affect the natural market through taxes on larger vehicles along with incentives and quotas...
I enjoy being on stage with other artists. I have a chance to watch and see people responding to the other artists songs. I get to see how people are affected by the music.
The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.
I think every player listens out for his name being sung and it's something I really enjoy.
Lectins are plant proteins that protect the plant and its seeds from being eaten by basically hacking into the animal's immune system, causing the animal to have inflammation.
Every human being has to feel a part of a tribe. It's programmed into us. And you have to feel that you're contributing to something.
I'm supportive of practical nationalism, like the kind we need in Canada to avoid being absorbed into a much larger country. The kind of nationalism I despise as destructive and infantile is really just tribalism writ large.
