Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
‐‐ Nanci Griffith
Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.
‐‐ Mia Hamm
Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
‐‐ Steven Bochco
Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.
‐‐ Kim Cattrall
Being a grandmother is one of the least strange things in my life. It makes more sense than a lot of things... like photo shoots!
‐‐ Neneh Cherry
Being a grandmother is probably the most important thing to me. I have two really rambunctious little ones, and I love spending time with them.
‐‐ Blythe Danner
Being a grandparent is whole new phase in your life.
‐‐ Kevin Whately
Being a great believer in Scottish tradition, I followed the example of my fellow countrymen and moved to England.
‐‐ Rory Bremner
Being a great horseman does not rely on physical strength but more on the mind and sensibility.
‐‐ Charlotte Casiraghi
Being a grown-up woman doesn't mean you can't look beautiful, individual and different.
‐‐ Twiggy
Being a heart throb would be crazy.
‐‐ Josh Hutcherson
Being a hippy was the most natural thing in the world to me.
‐‐ David Crosby
Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.
‐‐ Samuel Fuller
Being a Hot Mom means being respected as a mom and a woman. And, the key to being a Hot Mom is having a sense of humor about yourself and all the crazy situations that arise.
‐‐ Jami Gertz
Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.
‐‐ Katharine Hepburn
Being a housewife is not important to me, but I'm never happier than when I come home and shut the door.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon
Being a human being is all about experiencing all of the wonders of the world and therefore as an actress, I'm open to any opportunity that may enrich my horizon.
‐‐ Sarah Polley
Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.
‐‐ Daryl Hannah
Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke
Being a 'hunk' is going to do great things for my love life, and I'll get a lot more offers. But I'll certainly never see myself as one.
‐‐ Robert Kazinsky
Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.
‐‐ Arnold Bennett
Being a husband is for me as big a priority as being a father.
‐‐ Roger Federer
Being a hybrid maker off and on over the years, I'm very comfortable with the idea and have been the subject of quite a few pretty good mash-ups myself.
‐‐ David Bowie
Being a Jehovah's Witness, it was really a trip. We had to go from door to door, and we weren't allowed to associate with the other children. It was a lot of rules.
‐‐ Sherri Shepherd
Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
‐‐ Lionel Trilling
Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.
‐‐ Andrea Dworkin
Being a journalist, being exposed to the world, to social injustice, to intolerance, growing up here, under apartheid, benefitting from that, has all shaped who I am and what my passions are, and of course that's going to come through in my writing.
‐‐ Lauren Beukes
Being a journalist is good if you want to write books: it teaches you to get beyond the blank screen. My books have been described as froth, but there's scope to be witty and ironic about everything in life.
‐‐ Sophie Kinsella
Being a journalist, you write what you see. If we can't do that, what use are we? I turned years of training on myself.
‐‐ Katie Hafner
Being a justice. If you love law the way I do... you're given the job of a lifetime... you're permitted to address the most important legal questions of the country, and sometimes the world. And in doing so, you make a difference in people's lives.
‐‐ Sonia Sotomayor
Being a kid and growing up is such a cool part of life.
‐‐ Devon Werkheiser
Being a kid and growing up is such a cool part of life. When you're young, you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It's the best!
‐‐ Devon Werkheiser
Being a kid, as all kids do, you feel out of place or like kind of a freak. You wake up feeling like your head got put onto someone else's body that day.
‐‐ John Hawkes
Being a kid during the '80s, I feel I didn't really get the full experience.
‐‐ Travie McCoy
Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how it could influence you - make you dream.
‐‐ Antoine Fuqua
Being a kid is so much more fun than being an adult. I think that's the crux of it. I think men are just less inclined to grow up because it's much more fun being a child.
‐‐ Robert Kazinsky
Being a known person is pretty much all I've known. I don't remember much of a time when people didn't know who I was.
‐‐ Dakota Fanning
Being a Labour home secretary in the 21st century means fighting a constant battle against both extreme Right and Left.
‐‐ David Blunkett
Being a lad is what I'm about.
‐‐ Liam Gallagher
Being a late bloomer, I really didn't have any interest in children until my late 30s, but I'm so happy I didn't go through life without that experience.
‐‐ Stacy Keach
Being a lawyer, even in a city as large as Chicago, is like being a citizen of a small town. I love watching the life of the town play out. You know, the rise and fall of individual lives in the entire community is just fascinating to me.
‐‐ Scott Turow
Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.
‐‐ David Steinberg
Being a lawyer is not merely a vocation. It is a public trust, and each of us has an obligation to give back to our communities.
‐‐ Janet Reno
Being a lazy parent and letting your kid watch stuff that's not appropriate for their age is one of the bigger mistakes you can make.
‐‐ Jennie Garth
Being a leader doesn't mean you are the guy who runs things.
‐‐ James Altucher
Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.
‐‐ James Altucher
Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences.
‐‐ Zainab Salbi
Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.
‐‐ Seth Godin
Being a leader requires being confident enough in your own decisions and those of your team to own them when they fail. The very best leaders take the blame but share the credit.
‐‐ Travis Bradberry
Being a leading man can come in many different forms.
‐‐ Jamie Dornan