Just Being Quotes - Page 22

• This idea of popular culture became something that belonged to us rather than something that we looked at from far away. We realized we could be part of it and create it, instead of just being consumers only.

  Simon Pegg

  Ideas, Culture, Far Away

  "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

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• I wasn't trying to make a following. I was just trying to make interesting music. That's not being modest, that's just being realistic.

  Girl Talk

  Interesting, Being Real, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My mother did an incredible job - one, of just being a great mom, but two, of instilling a tremendous amount of empathy into me as a young man, as a young person. My mom was kind of this collector of people; throughout my childhood, it didn't matter who you were. She was a high school counselor and then a junior high counselor, and she didn't just counsel students, she counseled other teachers and administrators and coaches.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Mom, Mother, Teacher

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's funny how that comes up, because sometimes I'll write something and I'll think, I don't know if that's a film or a play, and then other things I feel very strongly about them just being plays - they feel very theatrical to me.

  Neil LaBute

  Writing, Thinking, Play

  "Revisiting with Neil LaBute". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 7, 2013.

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• Once I was in New York, I completely had no interest for a long time in what happened in China because I had been through so much. Seeing my father's life struggle and so many whole generations lose their potential or possibility in their lives. Just being pushed into this political struggle and the damage done not only to their lives but their relatives.

  Ai Weiwei

  New York, Father, Struggle

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm terrified of just being myself because I think it's boring. I know who I really am and I think it's boring.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Thinking, Boring, Being Myself

  "It’s Sufjan Stevens’ Way or the Highway". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2009.

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• People are fed up - and I think quite rightfully so. But what are they proposing as an alternative to just being upset or feeling disillusioned or abandoned? That kind of protest movement really needs to happen on a much bigger scale, but there needs to be a clearer message.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Thinking, People, Upset

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• For someone who is starting out on developing their critical skills, just being aware of its existence is great: it can make the difference between trying to write a story around a cliche or an original idea, and better still, studying it can eventually clue you in on how to breathe new life into tired tropes.

  Charles Stross

  Writing, Tired, Skills

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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• There are good and bad movies, and long ones, and pretentious ones, and fun ones, and it's kind of healthy not just being able to switch off after ten minutes, but have patience.

  Susanne Bier

  Fun, Long, Healthy

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I did make some money, the first money that I ever made, doing this last one, and it's an extraordinary feeling just being given the freedom to do something.

  Duncan Roy

  Feelings, Lasts, Firsts

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• In the Western world there isn't much value given to the necessity for just being quiet. And just resting, and just being, without a focus or a goal. At least a certain amount in our lives - we don't need to do half and half; it's okay if we're doing a lot of doing, we just need some being mixed in.

  Shakti Gawain

  Goal, Focus, Needs

  "An Interview with Shakti Gawain about Transformation, Locally and Globally". Lotus Guide Interview, www.lotusguide.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Retiring isn't even a word I'd understand. Taking what makes you feel alive, and everyone's looking for ways of making them feel alive, in whatever they do - relationships, business or work - and not just being a voice for a money making business.

  Anita Roddick

  Voice, Alive, Way

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• I think of great masters, like [Alfred] Hitchcock, for example, who works absolutely within this sensational realm. You feel like you can always tell what temperature a room is in a Hitchcock film because the people feel alive, they don't feel like they're just being filmed on a stage.

  Tilda Swinton

  Thinking, People, Example

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The idea of self-effacement, the idea that you feel so powerless that the only tiny morsel of power you have is over your own ability to deny yourself food - that to me is a very profound and sad methodology and indicator of how powerless a lot of people feel in this world. That they will turn that onto themselves until they are physically smaller. I think it's affected my worldview a lot - just being sensitive and empathetic towards the ways people want to be small. I don't wish smallness for anyone.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Thinking, Self, Ideas

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• I think the best way I could ever fight racism is just being as successful as possible.

  Lilly Singh

  Fighting, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I'm from New York and I love New York and I'm always repping New York, but what I represent is something deeper than just being a New York rapper.

  ASAP Rocky

  New York, Rapper, Deeper

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. January 7, 2013.

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• Confidence? Are you kidding me? I mean, please. Look, some players grow up and play like that. I remember losing junior matches. Just being down 5-2 in the third, and they all just start slapping shots.

  Roger Federer

  Growing Up, Mean, Player

  "Roger Federer: 'I Have Only Myself To Blame'". www.tennis-x.com. September 10, 2011.

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• Just write the best you can about the things that concern you most. I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Fun, Writing, Sight

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• I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

  Idina Menzel

  Stress, Being Real, Use

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• I didn't want to be a loser, but I didn't want to fit in at the same time because I don't like just being ordinary. So it's one of those situations where I always kept my head up.

  ASAP Rocky

  Ordinary, Want, Loser

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm involved with every single thing that they do as far as just being aware, and then they ask my opinion. I'm involved in the sequence reviews and some of the animation reviews and character designs and things like that. I give my input on that movie as well.

  Klay Hall

  Character, Giving, Design

  Source: collider.com

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• Being a stunt girl is very much my comfort zone, so I had to remove the comfort zone to step fully into the slightly scarier zone. Also, just being perceived as an actor by the outside world, rather than as the stunt girl who does dialogue, has been a part of the challenge in front of me.

  Zoe Bell

  Girl, Challenges, Comfort

  Source: collider.com

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• I always had difficulty as a model just being myself. I can be very shy, and I used to have a lot of anxiety about working on set.

  Stephanie Seymour

  Anxiety, Shy, Being Myself

  Interview magazine, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2013.

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• I've learned so much from just being in film industry. I definitely want to stay in front of the camera and learn more from as many people as I can. Somewhere down the line, writing, directing and producing would be fantastic.

  Nico Tortorella

  Writing, People, Cameras

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't want to speak for all people who don't have children, but maybe there's a discomfort with kids and the amount of attention they demand, by just being the age that they are.

  Shannyn Sossamon

  Children, Kids, People

  Source: collider.com

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