- Doing
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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
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing.
- Common Denominator
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- Nov 07, 2020
Email has the virtue - sounds like a bad thing, but it's the virtue of being the lowest common denominator messaging protocol. Everyone can have it. It can cross organizational boundaries. No one owns it. It's not some particular company's platform.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love moving through long spaces and being enclosed.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's such a great thing about New York, after growing up in a place and being there for twenty plus years, there's still a whole island to discover.
- High Percentage
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is an established tradition of actors directing films that have a particular, personal meaning for them - Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, and most recently George Clooney to name a few. Remarkably, their films share an unusually high percentage of being very good.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always hated being a child. I always felt like an adult trapped in a child's body.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing my own plays, and I would sell out, but after everything was said and done, I'd break even. That's being successful.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not only have individual politicians and celebrities personally condemned your automobiles for being too messy, noisy, and harmful to the common good, but they've tried to affect the natural market through taxes on larger vehicles along with incentives and quotas for 'greener' cars.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy being on stage with other artists. I have a chance to watch and see people responding to the other artists songs. I get to see how people are affected by the music.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think every player listens out for his name being sung and it's something I really enjoy.
- Causing
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- Nov 07, 2020