- Quality
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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
The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.
- Conscience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being selected for West Indies actually changed my life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In one year I won two titles - one being the Premier League. I have a trophy at home that not many people have and in possibly the most competitive league in the world.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often, players talk when they feel they are not being valued as they deserve. Then they get more attention.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
People won't believe this, but I don't really like being the center of attention.
- I Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love being Canadian.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
For most of us, our protective lies or omissions are so insignificant that being found out would be only mildly embarrassing. But for some of us, our secret may threaten to destroy everything. And that is food and drink to a novelist.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to Chaka Khan and Prince, and I got influenced by all that. Then gangsta rap got started, and I was infatuated with that - maybe that's why I'm fascinated by guns.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned to suck in my stomach when photographers are around. I used to read gossip magazines all the time, but I stopped when I started being written about in them and read incredible lies about myself.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020