- Good
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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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know why, but I love sunflowers, and I just have this vivid memory of being in a field of sunflowers and how they felt like trees. They felt so tall.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seriously, I don't find not being able to hear an obstacle or a boundary. For me, and for many of us, it is an advantage, and it's a part of my identity, in fact. It's a huge part of who I am.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was constantly being sought after for money. And the vitriol that came my way from many who felt threatened by controversial aspects of 'for colored girls' was often frightening.
- Box Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
The box office performance of a film is instrumental in an actor being perceived as saleable.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020