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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
- Naughty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Graffiti is usually a protest - ink on walls - or has a reason for being naughty or aggressive.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from a practical family. The idea of being a writer seemed impossible to me.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
I value companionship. I like being with my girlfriend, my best friends. I'm hella clingy. And I'm hella emotional.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to tell stories. Well, at least, I always came back to the notion of storytelling when the glitz and glamour of being a special effects designer or a fighter pilot or a DEA agent wore off.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want everything that I've worked for to go into my pocket. I want all my money to come to me. I'm very much hands-on with my career, and I like to do what I want in the studio - I don't like being told, 'do it this way' or 'do it that way.'
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well being as there's no other place around the place, I reckon this must be the place, I reckon.
- Human Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Have I said dumb things? Absolutely, who hasn't? But I have never backed away from being called out on something I did or said wrong.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just love being in the arts.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm already used to being a target, so I'm building a castle with the stones people throw at me.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
What wins a fight is training hard, working hard, and that's what I do: Train hard every time. Being pretty or not is not the point.
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