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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I rejected being a lot of things that I grew up in, and yet I didn't. I got all my tactics from where I grew up... I can talk about all the people in those environments more than I can talk about the teachers at Juilliard or anyone else.
- Force
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd put the ninety-nine billion dollars - whatever it is - that's being appropriated for the Air Force and the Navy, and I'd put it into schools. I'd put it into traveling scholarships.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of women - not all of them, a lot of them - feel insecure about men being men.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education is very important, and the botanical garden is the place to do that. I grew up in a semi-rural area and learned from that being my playground.
- Early Years
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad died 11 years ago, I don't see much of my brothers, and I rarely speak to my mum. I don't hold a grudge, but being separated in those early years clearly had an impact. Our relationship didn't develop as it ought to.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am very proud of being Jewish.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love being in the studio.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them.
- Nov 07, 2020
Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always think about what's the difference between being tenacious and having an inability to learn from failures. The difference between the homeless guy who wanted to be a great painter and the guy who is a great painter could be anything.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always prided myself on being the lowest-profile member of the Bush family.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020