- Love
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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
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous...' Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that has survived for 500 million years, but it's survived by being unobtrusive and doing nothing, and you can't accuse human beings of that.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm used to being around kids. Even when I was growing up in London, I had an older sister, I had a younger sister that I used to look after from time to time.
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020
With screenplays, it's all about being as concise as possible. If you have a scene that's set in a bar, you just have to write, 'Interior: Bar.'
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have any desire to be in a relationship with anyone else, and I do feel like I'm on the other side of my career of being a Lothario.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020