Being Quotes · Page 197

Drama and comedy, to me ,are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once.

— Tim Blake Nelson

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

— Tom Perrotta

My only ambition was to get to 50, and not regret not having had a crack at being a comic.

— Lee Mack

I'm not really very ambitious. I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful.

— James D'arcy

I never thought of myself as being the singer that wanted to create an identity and then stick to that.

— Chris Cornell

People think of fortune cookies as being Chinese, but in essence, they are fundamentally American.

— Jennifer Lee

Holding those two identities of being gay and Asian have, I guess, made my skin a little thicker.

— Bowen Yang

I thought being vegan was going to be some really horrible way of life that had no flavor.

— Robin Quivers

Guys are really easy to get along with. It's a lot better than being on the bus with eight girls. But the…

— Hillary Scott

Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under…

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

I'm a Bipolar 1, Rapid Cycler. So really easily, if I'm around people that are sick and are not medicated, and there's…

— Beth Hart

The Tea Party elites gained extraordinary influence by being able to funnel millions of undisclosed dollars into campaigns with ads that distort…

— Chuck Schumer

I keep getting compared to Marina and the Diamonds because she's kind of in the same place as me at the moment.…

— Ellie Goulding

“We are consciousness examining and expressing itself so that it can become increasingly aware of its infinite capacity for being and evolving.”

— Jay Woodman

I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of…

— Jim Davis

I've been shut down, run down, talked about, dogged out, but that never stopped me from the being the true me that's…

— Patti LaBelle

The power organisation of Israel gives what they can to fight me, to cause me some harm, damages in health, mind, and…

— Mordechai Vanunu

I often say to the athletes, that I know about their 'neon skills' - the ones that light up and make them…

— Teddy Atlas

I love my job. But I like to have fun at work. So I don't get finicky if one strand of hair…

— Sonakshi Sinha

Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I was very proud to be Mrs. Curtis Amy. My thing in life when I married Curtis Amy was being Mrs. Curtis…

— Merry Clayton

I remember my daughter Deni coming along, and she was so pure and caring of everybody and everything. And somehow, this little…

— Woody Harrelson

“An insipid voice message or an incongruent emergence from the “other” world may disrupt our whole thinking system. If we are not…

— Erik Pevernagie

The open web is full of spam, shady operators, and blatant falsehoods. Outside of a relatively small percentage of high quality sites,…

— John Battelle

If you don't know what is being said, the rest of the actor's work is wasted.

— Tom Stoppard

I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.

— Janet McTeer

I want to keep continuously going through all the pages in the book of being an actor.

— Jason Mitchell

I come from a family that loves to eat, not exercise. Being fat made even walking hard.

— Joe Bastianich

Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.

— Orhan Pamuk

A sociopath is just a label and doesn't encompass the entire being of a person.

— Dan Gilroy

Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.

— Cal Ripken, Jr

It's much easier being a father to girls. Boys are just horrible. Then girls come into their own around 12 when they're…

— Keith Allen

I think it hurt my performance because I stopped being me. That won't ever happen again.

— Christopher Darden

It's funny to think that at 22 years old, I was really burned out from being on the road for 10 years.

— Maren Morris

Being an African-American, minority, or poor, you get in a tough situation and you don't get a fair shake.

— Mike Conley Jr

I think a woman's role is not just confined to being a homemaker and have babies, but a lot more.

— Rhea Chakraborty

We need to rid our State Owned Enterprises of corruption because the money being siphoned out should be funding them.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

Being a female and Latina in this industry is really bad for you until it's not.

— Snow Tha Product

When I fight, I don't think about being tired, I don't think about technique. I just try to break their will.

— Cat Zingano

I haven't found anything to complain about. But being Scottish, it won't be long.

— Peter Capaldi