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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a 27-year-old, I'm like, 'everything is hard for me. Being young is so difficult.'
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in high school, and I wasn't much of an outgoing kid. I really pushed myself to break out of that mold and decided to audition for a play. I ended up getting a supporting part in the play, and it ended up being one of those experiences that was a lot of fun.
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The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a film is being made by an intelligent director, they're going to cast the right guy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough to do.
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- Nov 07, 2020