- Being Myself
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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
- Enlisted
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being exposed to the enlisted Army was an eye-opener. I thought everyone was like me, but the enlisted Army is a constituency of the dispossessed.
- Great Believer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a great believer in the novelist being 'on the scene,' reporting, traveling, meeting all sorts of people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.
- Driving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I confess to being a CNN junkie. And when I'm driving, it's all NPR all the time.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's more depth to Lionel. What I am finding so interesting about playing him is there's all these different layers. I prefer playing Lionel because he's a human being.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to be in the limelight, and I found I could get it by being on the stage. That was the beginning of everything for me.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.
- Mercy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020