- Make
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like being overexposed. I don't like being on covers. And I don't like people talking about me.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.
- Nov 07, 2020
Being a woman is really crap.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really say, 'Is this script Catholic or not?'. But if I find it to be immoral, or it doesn't sit right with me, which happens a lot these days because there's a lot of garbage being written... I'm like, 'I'm not doing this.'
- Being Used
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gothic in its purest sense is actually a very powerful, twisted genre, but the way it was being used by by journalists - 'goff' with a double f - always seemed to me to be about tacky, harum-scarum horror, and I find that anything but scary. That wasn't what we were about at all.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose you always look back at how easier things were being young. There's always a shame that you're not as naive as you were.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never envisioned being number one for five weeks, knocking Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men off the charts. That's the scariest thing and the greatest thing that ever happened to me.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perception plays a vital role in the diagnosis of bipolar illness. Symptoms are perceived through the categories of psychiatric medicine at a given moment in history, categories which are continually shifting and being named or renamed.
- Different Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
- Nov 07, 2020
Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
- Behaves
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020