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Being Quotes
"I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: 'Oh, you're working on it right now?'"
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"I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet."
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"If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being."
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"All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture."
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"For me, just being on the cover of a magazine wasn't enough. I began to think, what value is there in doing something in which you have no creative input?"
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"Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact."
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"Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip."
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"Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it."
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"There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged."
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"I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over."
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"It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them."
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"Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being."
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"Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so."
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"Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction."
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"Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right."
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"Being a public person doesn't necessarily mean you're a piece of meat for everybody."
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"Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house."
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"I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived."
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"Too many children are being parked in substandard day care with workers who make little more than a parking attendant."
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"I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy."
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"Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago."
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"I am very proud of being the one to have coined the word."
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"Even for the most difficult scenes, and there are difficult scenes in the film, and because Michael Haneke is such a great film-maker - I think a great film-maker is not only being inspired, but how to do it, how to make it as real as possible, knowing that it's not real."
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"There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while."
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"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised."
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"So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe."
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