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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Extinction
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a fair guess that at the rate we're destroying habitat, especially but not exclusively in the tropics, we're pushing to extinction about one species every hour. That doesn't count the species whose populations are being reduced so greatly that diversity within the population is essentially gone.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always earned my own money and enjoy being independent. It's how I was brought up.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is a rough and tumble business. It's not for the faint-hearted. I've got bruises and cuts from being in the political arena. But by and large, I understand how to navigate the process.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
I may not be a trained actor, but I've paid my dues. And I mean that literally. I am a fully dues-paid member of SAG/AFTRA. As a political figure, I've been called a 'card carrying' member of numerous groups that I'm not a member of - and now I'm being called a non-actor when I am literally a card-carrying member of the union for actors.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think all villains have something in common: they have something that they need or want very, very badly. The stakes are very high and they are not bound by moral codes or being ethical, so they can do anything and will do anything to get what they want.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a non-swimmer, I've never been excited by the sea so avoid it on holidays.
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bedrock of 'Being Human' has to be characters. I would hope that even if suddenly we had a huge budget per episode, the foundation of the show, and the thing that actually makes it what it is, is character.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was being groomed as an undergraduate to specialize in Midwestern prehistory, but going back to my teenage days, my interest has always been in our early human ancestors. I wanted to work in Africa.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every human being is searching for a deep sense of meaning, and yet we're all chasing success. We've confused one for the other.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a happy human being when I'm overloaded with stuff to do, but I got stuff to do.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the same way I accumulate objects, I also accumulate images, and I find them arranging themselves into categories, too. And some images insist on being painted; others don't.
- Land
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- Nov 07, 2020