- People
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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
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personally, I love being a mother the most. I dream of taking holidays with my three kids. I want to take my kids to beaches, gardens, the farm, malls everywhere.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being funny is a symptom of what's underneath. You're pumping out all that energy because something else is going on inside you, some opposing force, something uncomfortable.
- Deemed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Twerking takes its place in a long line of dance moves deemed immoral, even apocalyptic. The waltz was called sinful because it demanded dangerously close contact between dance partners. In 1914, the tango earned a papal denunciation for being 'damaging to the soul.'
- Glass
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't pretend at how much I object to all of the plays that keep being brought back over and over again, the so-called classic plays. I mean how many times can we see 'The Glass Menagerie?'
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Playing for relegation and livelihoods and people's jobs - that's pressure. Being at the top of the table, we should be enjoying it.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being in midfield, in general, you don't have a lot of time to think, and in the Premier League, that's even less of the case. You just don't have time to think.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.
- Trouble
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just being gender non-conforming opens you to trouble from strangers. And violence.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020