- 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
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people speak of BJP being an 'election machine,' it is actually development and progress that is BJP's electoral machine.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Please explain to me what being an icon is. How do you define it? I haven't been given a script. I don't know what the dialogues of an icon are.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
India's nuclear-test blasts have pretty much put to rest the myth of Indians being peace-loving Gandhians.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
I totally remember that: being 25 and unemployed and trying to stretch each cappuccino for 60 minutes.
- Majority
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- Nov 07, 2020
We study, as Americans, the extreme aspects of repression under the Stalinist era. We're focused on them. The vast majority of Russian citizens, it was a much softer type of being disconcerted.
- Cool Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cool thing about being a songwriter, or a writer, I guess, in general, you can take on a lot of different things, experience a lot of different things, just by writing about them.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have an incredible sense of direction, but London is confusing. It's a circle, but then it stops being a circle.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.
- Getting Dressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.
- Voice
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's kind of wonderful about being the voice in an animated film is you're a small part of an enormous production. And in a way, you get to remain a little bit objective.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity.
- Road
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- Nov 07, 2020