Being Quotes · Page 185

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

— Marilyn Monroe

I believe in form and the manner of what you say being as important as the content of what you say.

— Alexa Hirschfeld

As creative people, we should be really conscious of being of service in our work, being as generous as we can.

— Jami Attenberg

You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.

— Imelda Staunton

American taxpayers expect and deserve to know where their hard-earned money is going and how it is being used.

— Mike Johnson

Writing went from being a calling to being a job. Business ruined things. It became like making sausages in a sausage factory.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

I really loved when I started doing '70s Show,' though I had never acted before, so it was a great training ground…

— Topher Grace

My feeling is that if a human being can coax life to build bonds between silicon and carbon, nature can do it…

— Frances Arnold

Actually what I'd like is to have a reputation as someone who's been wild and gone straight, but without having to go…

— Ben Barnes

I think it's incredibly important for kids to be able to express who they are and feel like they can be themselves…

— Colin Egglesfield

In the first phase of shock over, say, your mortgage being called in or your job washed out, it's essential to engage…

— Gail Sheehy

One would think that people who insist on being monotheistic would be the first in line to walk across the artificial boundaries…

— Richard Rohr

To be honest, I had taken time to discover my calling and did different things like being an assistant director, a photographer…

— Akshara Haasan

There are the movies that should never be made and resist being made until, through sheer brute force, somebody finally makes it.…

— Craig Mazin

There is an isolated experience to being a director. It's very communal because there's a crew, but it's only you. You're the…

— Noah Baumbach

You'll find that no pride is greater than the pride that comes with being thick. Britain is filled with people who are…

— Andrew O'Hagan

I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey.…

— Barry Unsworth

My memories are of denim. I remember being 12 in my Levi's. Wow! As a teenager in Milan, I was really fascinated…

— Stefano Gabbana

“And sometimes if I want To imagine I’m a lamb (Or a whole flock Spreading out all over the hillside So I…

— Alberto Caeiro

Don't believe those tales you hear about my being all-in. Wait until you see me in action for your team and then…

— Vic Willis

If we are paying attention to our lives, we'll recognise those defining moments. The challenge for so many of us is that…

— Robin S. Sharma

I've always believed that as actors, one of the biggest advantages of being in the film business - not just of being…

— Deepika Padukone

My father had owned a ranch when he was younger, in Montana, and he remembered riding his horse across the prairie and…

— Jack Horner

It's a bit weird, because I don't really know what people expect or think being political is; I just don't get it.…

— M.I.A

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

— C. Northcote Parkinson

Are kids smarter than adults? All evidence points to that being true.

— Natalie Jeremijenko

Love the show 'Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.' Being from Louisiana and a big outdoorsman, I'm a big fan of 'Duck Dynasty' as…

— Wes Brown

That feeling of being rewarded for your curiosity is huge. It's why I play games, this idea of truly existing in a…

— Cory Barlog

I think that many Californians have been accustomed to, have normalized, that being good sometimes is good enough.

— Kevin de Leon

I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.

— Robert Smith

Being enrolled in a college does not free you from the legal obligation to become domiciled.

— Kris Kobach

The idea of your younger sibling being in pain and realizing you are the cause of that pain is unbearable.

— Claire Foy

I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life.

— Patrick O'Brian

As an actor, you always want to reach back to being a child and having the spontaneity and the imagination of a…

— Wes Bentley

I never thought in a million years I'd be involved in a project that celebrated the fullness of my identity of being…

— Nico Santos

Just because I was almost 62, I did not feel decrepit and felt I wasn't finished being a soldier yet.

— Gerald Griffin

Being on Epic, it wasn't like we got signed to a multi-million-dollar deal.

— Matt Skiba

Being a member of the Grand Ole Opry and headlining a tour would be our two things that we'd love to accomplish…

— Maddie Marlow

Let me just say this - sometimes being a trailblazer is highly overrated.

— Rob Lowe

We continue to focus on actually solving problems that real people have and not being distracted by what power users want.

— Arash Ferdowsi