- 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
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always being an underdog, always being the player or the person nobody really knew, that always kept a chip on my shoulder.
- Losing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I might be nervous off the court, being booed. But being on the court, it's my comfort zone. It's basketball. It's what I do. I'm not losing sleep over it.
- Nov 07, 2020
Being in a band is hard. Even if you like somebody, you start to argue over silly things.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the nice thing about being in Mr. Big, is I'm not only the guitar player. I'm the background singer, and so I get to do both of those things. Sometimes we even switch instruments and I get to be the drummer.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a fan of pop music and rock bands, I am a reluctant convert into the art of instrumental rock music.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did take some cooking classes in high school. Boys weren't really supposed to take them. I had to risk being made fun of.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the funny things of being a producer, you have these fleeting, intense relationships with people, and they go off to global megastardom, and you don't see them.
- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being in Los Angeles, I've had access to some of the best improvisers around and I really study them and what they do. It really it just about listening and what you can add to it.
- Nov 07, 2020
What I do with impressions, I try not to be mean-spirited. To me, it's just about being silly.
- Nov 07, 2020
My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being crazy off on their own.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been comfortable around groups of guys when it gets into the putting-down. My past being a kind of geek - it kind of turns into an attack on the weakest of the group.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
So much of my work is about children and/or parenting; it's something I'm drawn to without being able to completely articulate why.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020