- Human Being
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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
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of my friends were gay, so I was spat on on the bus daily, and I ended up in hospital a couple of times from being beaten up so badly.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm pretty much fully digital. I've basically spent a few painstaking days putting sounds into my laptop, just banking them, because I love playing, and I love visually seeing it on my screen and being able to change the sounds more, with different plug-ins. I've created my own synth sounds.
- Amazing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Training in taekwondo for eight years and then being able to do it in a film was pretty amazing.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm so into music that I just stop and listen, whenever there's music on. That's the problem with being a musician for so long. I can get lost in the bassline, fascinated with the arrangement, curious about the production. I can't shut it out.
- Nov 07, 2020
The thing a writer has to avoid is being the 'voice' of his people and pretending he can speak for them.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Chinese, the African, and the European - they are all there. So the division of the Caribbean experience into being emphatically only African is absurd.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be labeled one thing. My main thing I care about is being able to create the things I want to do with my friends, whatever platform that is.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dream is to be able to make something in Baltimore that's just there. Make a movie or make a show there. I only left because there wasn't any opportunity except being an extra in Barry Levinson or John Waters movies.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people's fear of being in front of an audience can generally be conquered by being completely on top of what it is they've got to do.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
That was how I started, as a hypnotist. But I didn't like the kind of gigs I was being offered. I didn't want to embarrass people.
- I Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love being home.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of things I can get better at as far as my footwork, being quicker, getting in and out of the hole, getting north and south.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020