- 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
- Awkward
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually feel awkward being at the center of attention.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started at GM knowing very little about that particular business. Not being an expert means you have to learn everything, starting from the basics.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having those extra dimensions and therefore many ways the string can vibrate in many different directions turns out to be the key to being able to describe all the particles that we see.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have said with as much sincerity as I can muster that if I were thrown into a dungeon with a sentence of one hundred years, with my only company being an illiterate guard who came twice a day with meals but who never spoke, I would still write - on coarse toilet paper in the dark if I could spare it.
- Glorifying
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm interested in glorifying something that we in the world would say doesn't deserve being glorified. Something that's forgotten, focused on as though it were some sort of sacred object.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.
- Mountains
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been watching and drawing the surface of Mars. It is wonderfully full of detail. There is certainly no question about there being mountains and large greatly elevated plateaus.
- Theatre
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up segregated, but there was not much feeling of being shut out of anything.
- Environmental Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020