- Game
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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
- Nov 07, 2020
I have a vision of the world as being a lot darker, perhaps, than I did when I was 31 and wrote the 'Books of Blood'.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Interestingly, although the 'Books of Blood' were greeted with cries of righteous horror - and smirks - I didn't think of them as being particularly excessive. God knows what I did think was excessive at the time, but I didn't think they were.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I encourage the study of music. And the immersion. 'Cause my life has been so enriched by being involved in music as I have.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll tell you now that I hate myself for many reasons, but being Jewish is not one of them.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many years ago, when I lived in the mini-Siberia they call East Anglia, I was awakened in the early hours by the sound of a pantechnicon being loaded. Peeping through the curtains, I observed the grocer doing a runner with all his chattels and his family.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people who tend to get the most out of being social thinkers are the people who themselves are helpful. They're always talking or answering people's questions or engaging in productive conversations. They're not being trolls. They're tamping down other people that are being trolls.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
But, of course, one relies on the everyday people who just simply like your music, for whom you may not be a hobby but they enjoy being in your presence at a concert.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love L.A. I love being out here.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have this one life. If you keep being selfish and unkind, it's going to come back to you.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020