- 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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, being heavyweight world champion and Olympic sprint champion are the two greatest prizes in sport.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I quite like being mobbed. After all, it is extremely nice to be recognised. That's what acting is all about - being recognised.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
As Asian-Americans, the charge that is often lobbed against us is sort of the least original: the idea that somehow we're perpetual foreigners, that we can't be trusted, and that even my father, who was patriotic to the point that it was kind of a joke among his children, would be accused of being disloyal to America.
- Privacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The podcast 'Note to Self' is 'the tech show about being human'. Human notions of privacy have changed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just love doing different things, which is what being a working author is like.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really wonderful that it's the whole franchise being recognized and it's a collective award. Each film has anywhere between 2,000 and 6,000 people working on it and so really the award is for each and every one of us. We are like a family.
- Nov 07, 2020
But I can't imagine Harry being a stockbroker at 35. That doesn't really seem the stuff of 'Harry Potter'.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.
- Fed Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm fed up with being bossed around.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are countless fantastic actors out there who are being denied the opportunity to play Broadway because they're not a name, and I think that's kind of wrong.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've yet to deal with the uncomfortable history of England being involved in the transatlantic slave trade, whereas America has at least made some movies dealing with its racial history.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great challenges of being a modern historian is interviewing multiple people who were all there for something, some event. No one's version matches up 100% with other people's, even if it's three or four people on a conference call.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don’t like the idea of being chucked out of parliament, chucked out of the party, for basically doing the bleeding obvious: trying to stop an absolutely damaging policy, that a responsible political party should be opposing vigorously.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!
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- Nov 07, 2020