Being Quotes
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That's what motherhood is: you're working; you're doing 25 different jobs, and you're not getting paid.
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To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.
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Every human being is a work of art.
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And I rejoiced in being what I was.
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I just want to do a good job with each role that I take and continue to better myself as an actress because that's what I love about this job... being able to act and work with so many different people on such a wide range of projects.
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What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not something that money can buy or power command. It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them. Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person. People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.
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Choose to be who you are. . . The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his entire being - must, that is, choose herself.
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To recognize that you are radically free, in Sartre's sense, but then to live as if you weren't, is to live in bad faith, in denial of what you know to be true. And that's not something anyone can sensibly want to do.
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Being a bad writer a thousand times first.
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Affirmations need to be used if they are to become incorporated into the fabric of your being.
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I absolutely love being a mother.
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The thing I hate about being dead is you can’t move on. I was in love with him when I died, so I’ll be in love with him till the sun burns out.
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Being brave doesn't mean always having to fight alone.
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I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer.
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There will be a great hole in the fabric of my being when he is gone, but not as great a hole as the one had I not known him.
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Being normal is completely overrated!
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If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.
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All kinds of celebrities, political ones as well, are increasingly being targeted. In this country, with all the countless guns.
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With the daguerreotype, everyone will be able to have their portrait taken . . . and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same.
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What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?
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If you can't recognize the man in the mirror, it is time to step back and see when you stopped being yourself.
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I like good books and clever conversation and being left alone much of the time.
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Civilization itself is housed in the human being.
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There is nothing like being able to develop a three-dimensional character over a long period of time. Sometimes you aren't able to fully portray a character because you only have a couple of scenes to do it in, and you don't get the full life and background of that character.
