- Envy
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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power - without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over.
- Lazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much of my work has come from being lazy.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests - but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers?
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't even know what the odds are for one kid or one team to make it here. Obviously, being from Canada this is their Stanley Cup - they made it. It's hard enough to get here and it's hard enough to advance.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020