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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
A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.
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- Nov 07, 2020
OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very different working with all adults. I have a swear jar so that, if they have a potty mouth, I make them pay. That's what it's like being on set with adults.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It really disturbs me that the environmental movement has been co-opted by creation-worshippers instead of being encouraged by the Creator-worshippers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you notice any of the press from when I was with the show, I would always deny it being the year 3000.
- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see the job of directing as being one of creating the right atmosphere, creating an environment where people can realize their full potential.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have lived in Toledo, Ohio, off and on throughout my entire life, and I have plenty of friends who are union members. Sometimes we agree politically and sometimes not, but it has never kept us from being friends.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's an American worker's right to unionize for sure, but that being said, don't expect me not to point out when or if union leadership takes advantage of union members.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.
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- Nov 07, 2020