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Being Quotes


"If you notice any of the press from when I was with the show, I would always deny it being the year 3000."


"The seeded draw came into being. This means that the two best players of the tournament are placed in opposite halves in the draw, and cannot possibly meet until the finals, if they come through successfully against all the rest of the participants."


"I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect."


"I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them."


"Being a shy person, I always felt strange outside with my camera."


"It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious."



"Some venues are better run than others. Sometimes it's just maddening to deal with full dinners being served in front of your face. You can have a good or bad show anywhere."


"Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together."


"I don't know if I like being the sentimental favorite."


"The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible."


"I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way."


"I really enjoyed the sort of real crazy, eclectic layering stuff and how it all worked together. I could tell it was some of it was derivative of something. I could tell that certain things were being looped around and I just really enjoyed the way that it all came together."


"I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible."


"Well, I went through some emotionally abusive relationships and allowed myself to not be properly respected as a lady, as a human being even, though I tried everything I knew to be a lady."


"Fiction's about what it is to be a human being."



"Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being."


"Being a typical Pisces, I might have experienced mood shifts, but I don't remember any depression, or needing to do anything, or to have someone bring me out of being depressed."


"Then I just moved into being a DJ when that turned into the hottest thing."


"When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film."



"So after being with somebody for any number of days like that, you can't help but feel for them. You can't help them, but you certainly can root for them."


"The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication."


"I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me."



"Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me."


"Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskill - reacting to being called 'ma'am' like Barbara Boxer did? This is the kind of sanctimonious self-absorption on the modern left that makes my teeth itch."


"I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish."


"She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring."


"Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals."



"Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party."



"I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream."



"Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do."


"The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf."
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