- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my wife and I got married, she thought of me being an easygoing person, and I warned her I wasn't.
- Physics
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- Nov 07, 2020
My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer arrangement, wondering why I couldn't make it work.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was already, I think, at the age of 18, showing signs of being incompetent in the lab.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
What kind of pupil was I? Well, I was a swot, but I was allowed to be without any ill effects by my contemporaries because I was excused from games due to my asthma. So being a swot was something to compensate for not being to play football.
- Computers
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing replaces being in the same room, face-to-face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.
- Flip
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do flip between being chatty and argumentative - and being a psycho-loner werewolf.
- Silence
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't be silent and create silence in being silent. So you have to create silence or, rather, the effect of silence, through words.
- Basketball
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother's sobriety - that's when I found the theater, that's when I moved from being a basketball player to being a musician, to being an actor, to then being a writer.
- Plants
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember being amazed that actors had a union. I thought only coal miners had unions, or guys that worked in automobile plants. That's an indication of how naive I was.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020