To Be Quotes
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You've got to be the master of your instrument, you've got to be dedicated, and you've got to do a lot of practicing, especially in the beginning, once you've got it, you've got it. It will always be with you.
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Be my friend and love me, for the world is terrible lonely and I am sad.
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To be free. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world.
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It is interesting sometimes to stop and think and wonder what the place you are currently at used to be like in times past, who walked there, who worked there and what the walls have seen.
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When we're young we have a very clear vision of how life is supposed to be, and it all seems very neatly packaged.
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When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.
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You got to be real with yourself and not just let yourself pass on things that tend to become a bad habit. Make sure you stay on top of practicing well and preparing the way you always do.
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Work hard, be brave.
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Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.
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I just try to love my body, to embrace who I am and really be the best version of myself. You have to know how much you're worth.
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It doesn't make sense to change who you are just to hang out with people you think are cool. You know, you just have to be yourself.
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It takes brains. It's not like a forward, where you can get away with scoring and not play defense. On defense you have to be thinking.
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[On men:] I'm torn between wanting to have one and wanting to be one.
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I don't plan to take a formal, cold approach with my children, but I expect a lot. I don't want my children to view me as their best friend. I want to be their mom.
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In order to be better, you should expect to be better.
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Don't wait to be sure. Move, move, move.
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It's an honor and privilege to be next to the great mysteries, and that's what I get to do every day. Why are we here? How beautiful the Earth is. Whatever it is, large and small. There's so much that's beautiful and moving and sad, to experience that and find shapes for it, to deeply enter that meditative space. There's nothing like it. Everything else seems so pale.
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From all those created in the image of God there is something to be received, and to them something to be given.
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I don't like lying around on the beach. I like to be busy.
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I love being able to be a writer. That's what I moved to New York to be.
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At some point, you just have to choose. And then be brave enough to stand up to the people who think you made the wrong choice.
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If you want to be an artist, you have to know that art is an ongoing practice, that you're part of a long line. Take this test: if someone offered you a billion dollars, but you could never draw another illustration or write another word, would you take it? If you reject it, you need to find another way to pay the bills, but you're still an artist.
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I've wanted to be an actress my whole life, and the - none of the women I aspired to be like had natural hair.
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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
