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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
- Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
No kid is seeking anything when he joins a gang; he's always fleeing something. He's not being pulled; he's being pushed by the circumstances in which he finds himself.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 17, my dad was teaching in the States. He hired an A-Team-style van, and we drove all over. My resounding memory of it was that we saw all these wonderful places but that my sister and I were being horrible, sulky teenagers.
- Nov 07, 2020
Being a teacher was great, but it wasn't what I wanted to do, so it was ultimately crushing.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hmmmm... It's fun being in front of people, playing shows and all. But hotels? Being away from home? That's different.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My game is about being aggressive, and I'm not the same player if you take that away from me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing.
- Nov 07, 2020
Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in.
- Essential Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to use all these programs that cut off the internet, force me to be bored, because being bored is an essential part of writing, and the internet has made it very hard to be bored.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing 'Father Ted' with Arthur Mathews was like being hooked up to a drip full of endorphins.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being bad at stuff is hard, and we all deal with it every day because we're all bad at stuff.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.
- Hardest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity.
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- Nov 07, 2020