- Great
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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 think being gay has resulted in gay characters standing front and center in all of my work.
- Diseases
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my parents died they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases; one being diabetes.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my parents died, they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases, one being diabetes. I became a diabetic at 17 and went on this road of kind of self-destruction, eating-wise, until I was 40.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Ellen Datlow was running the fiction at 'Omni' in the late '80s and into the '90s, I had a subscription. It was one of two subscriptions I'd saved for, the other being 'Spider-Man.' And they each opened my mind and my heart in wonderful ways.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like being creative.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love being onstage. I love the relationship with the audience. I love the letting go, the sense of discovery, the improvising.
- Producer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been accused of being unambitious, but what I do takes up every minute. I'm executive producer, I'm a writer and the host.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working on 'Laguna' was great because just being in production and shooting stuff and having to go back and relive some things, and there were some lines here and there that the producers would want us to say, and just kind of, you're forced to recreate moments, and just working on the show was so much fun.
- Demand
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- Nov 07, 2020