- Know
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made a sofa that is constantly being updated the more people sit on it, or sit through it, or don't sit on it because it's so uncomfortable.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Apparently, the prerequisite to being a gay public figure is to appear on the cover of a magazine with the caption 'I am gay'. I apologize for not doing so if this is what was expected!
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just always had this feeling inside me of always being nervous and afraid of situations.
- Blessed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being on 'Nashville' and working with some incredible people like T-Bone Burnett and Buddy Miller - so many wonderful, incredible musicians that I've been blessed to play with and observe - that has continued to shape the process of arranging music, writing music.
- Nov 07, 2020
That's what rock music is, I think - constantly searching for authenticity, and being as honest as possible.
- Greatest Reward
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- Nov 07, 2020
My greatest reward is knowing for certain, as I do with many other acts and artistes, that without Jonathan King being alive and involved, Genesis would not exist, and the guys would have had careers as intended - as accountants and lawyers!
- Human Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a human being and every human being has problems.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I got my first Bolex camera a few weeks after being dropped in New York by the United Nations Refugee Organization. That was on October 29th, 1949. With my brother Adolfas, we wanted to make a film about displaced persons, how one feels being uprooted from one's home.
- Knife
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've died so many times. I'm 65. On my 40th birthday, my girlfriend gave me a reel with ways I had died, whether it was by knife, or electrocution or drowning or being thrown off a building or whatever it might have been. I've died a lot of times!
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020