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Being Quotes
"I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars."
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"There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision."
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"I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are."
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"If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?"
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"Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else."
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"I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest."
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"Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse."
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"We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements."
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"The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally."
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"Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door."
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"Don't try to be like me. Try to be like yourself. Try to be very good at being yourself."
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"There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag."
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"There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog."
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"Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is."
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"Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made."
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"There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know."
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"When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss."
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"I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled."
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"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag."
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"I can wholeheartedly apologize for not being at all sorry. And it really is the least I can do."
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"You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible."
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"To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object."
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"We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds."
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"Interesting enough, we had a reunion of the 12 of us who graduated, right? The only one who wasn't there was the guy who became a priest, and he was literally in prison in Libya, for being a Catholic priest. Isn't that interesting? Everybody else made the reunion but that guy."
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"I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned."
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"You never really meet a human being until you live with them or know them for awhile, so this is my clown and they understand that and so these interviews don't bother them."
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"But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me."
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"I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'"
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"There's a difference between wanting to be respected and being a strong female and being known for being able to do things, but still very much wanting guys to open the door, wanting them to ask us out, still bringing flowers and stuff like that."
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"I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon."
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