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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
- Privacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't been really guilty of being an uber helicopter parent; I took the baby monitors out when they were three months old because I thought that was an invasion of their privacy.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of India is rural; there is a huge population in India not being tapped for their excellence. They have no access to great universities.
- Nov 07, 2020
Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.
- Extraordinary
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find Suez astonishing for the first hour. It is a ditch in a desert, but a stunning one. The sensation of being hemmed in by huge ships, moving at a stately pace through a man-made waterway, is extraordinary.
- Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before containers, transport costs ate up 25 percent of the value of whatever was being shipped.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely think it opened doors for me and what was so fantastic about 'Downton' being showed over in the States, was that it helped get me noticed.
- Bathing Suit
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in Florida with Burt Stern, the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe on the beach with a sweater, and we smoked a joint. The bathing suit kept coming off in the water, and I just ripped it off. I was very comfortable being naked.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I moved to L.A. I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do, but I really like the entertainment industry. I started to make videos on YouTube to get more comfortable being in front of the camera. The first video I filmed was with my sister.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
My tutorial videos are educational, but they're goofy - I'm just being myself.
- Angry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was that kid who was always practicing crying or falling asleep or being angry or being excited. I was that weirdo in my room making faces.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids don't like being put into boxes, and your kid can act in different ways in different situations.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a great op-ed piece by Kurt Johnson, who runs The List Project, that I recommend everyone read. He was talking about how he's been trying to get out of Iraq who were our allies, who are now subject to torture, and their families are being killed because of their alliance to the United States.
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- Nov 07, 2020