All Quotes

Being a working mom, you want to make a difference in our schools, which is making a difference in our children and ultimately it's making a difference in our community.
‐‐ Kimora Lee Simmons

Being a world champion is something I'm already proud of and can take for the rest of my life.
‐‐ Nonito Donaire

Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.
‐‐ Randy Savage

Being a writer can be a very lonely profession, but having a network of people who can sympathize with everything you're going through - from contract issues to the terror of changing your novel from past- to present-tense - is an invaluable asset.
‐‐ Lisa Graff

Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.
‐‐ Lev Grossman

Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered.
‐‐ Anthony Minghella

Being a writer - even a best-selling one - is usually not anywhere near as public as being a movie star, at least not when I'm out in 'real life' like this. Not that I don't use what fame I have, every chance I get, to help sell more books.
‐‐ Nancy Pickard

Being a writer involves writing. You've got to commit to sitting down and writing instead of Xbox or Netflix.
‐‐ Brian Keene

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.
‐‐ Pat Barker

Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.
‐‐ Paula Cole

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.
‐‐ Sloane Crosley

Being a writer is great, and being a parent is great, and I hate Marching Band.
‐‐ MaryJanice Davidson

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.
‐‐ Lawrence Kasdan

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.
‐‐ Mohsin Hamid

Being a writer usually entails a fairly quiet life. However much travel one might do, however many tours and appearances, the job entails solitude: long hours in libraries, long hours at a desk.
‐‐ Jill Paton Walsh

Being a young Kiwi lad, a young Polynesian boy, I was pretty close to my family. But when I moved to Sydney, I went from training twice a week, playing touch footy with my mates, to working full-time as a labourer and training professionally.
‐‐ Sonny Bill Williams

Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between how things are and how they should be.
‐‐ Julian Baggini

Being able to act for a living is a blessing. I have a great theater company that's almost 40 years old.
‐‐ Gary Sinise

Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
‐‐ Cameron Bright

Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about. I would love to check out the bottom of the ocean to see what's going on down there.
‐‐ Cameron Bright

Being able to choose the skin I live in was the draw of fashion.
‐‐ Stacy London

Being able to communicate with a loved one that you haven't talked to in a while because of some communication break makes their life and your life in a much better place.
‐‐ John Paul DeJoria

Being able to compete for consumers' attention and dollars over the preciousness of access is a thing of the past. Everyone is using the Internet to globally market a product.
‐‐ Ted Sarandos

Being able to control your reproduction is essential to women's ability to flourish in the United States.
‐‐ Rebecca Traister

Being able to dedicate 100 per cent of my time to impacting more businesses without being operational, it just gives me a bigger platform.
‐‐ Jochen Zeitz

Being able to do lead roles in pictures or onstage or whatever it is that you're doing in acting is obviously what you strive for because you want to better yourself as an actor and you want to better yourself as a person as well. But that does come with a lot of responsibility and a great deal of weight.
‐‐ Jamie Campbell Bower

Being able to do research in a real-time way is the way research needs to be done in the future.
‐‐ Anne Wojcicki

Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.
‐‐ David Hockney

Being able to elicit the feeling of the unfathomable in intelligent adults is like falling in love.
‐‐ Drummond Money-Coutts

Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.
‐‐ Gary Cole

Being able to have a laboratory on Mars, being able to have some sort of sustained human presence on Mars in the future, I think, is critically important for science.
‐‐ Ellen Stofan

Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well.
‐‐ Chris Kattan

Being able to jump off a swing is actually a useful and meaningful thing for a child to do... those are the tests that help us understand the limits of our body. That's a positive learning experience that we deny children on a regular basis.
‐‐ Gever Tulley

Being able to laugh at a situation can help you hang on to your perspective. And there's an intimacy in laughter that nothing else can come close to.
‐‐ Eric Mabius

Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.
‐‐ Rachel Stevens

Being able to live my life transparently does empower me to feel like I can be myself more. It's easier for me to flirt with girls now that girls know that I'm gay. It almost makes it a sexier encounter than if I was trying to pretend that I was straight.
‐‐ Neil Patrick Harris

Being able to make a comedy at Disney was really appealing.
‐‐ Rich Moore

Being able to make work - if it's on your terms, and it's a good fit with the people who are supporting it - can be a very interesting exercise. When it doesn't work is when an artist just connects with a brand, and they try to take advantage of each other.
‐‐ Marco Brambilla

Being able to pit your wits against literally hundreds of other people is really exciting and ultimately the biggest single challenge for a poker player.
‐‐ Tim Page

Being able to play basketball at a high level, adjusting to the ball in the air, quick feet, quick hands and all that stuff definitely translates to playing tight end in the National Football League.
‐‐ Austin Seferian-Jenkins

Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative.
‐‐ Susie Orbach

Being able to save, make non-cash payments, send or receive remittances, get credit, or get insurance can be instrumental in raising living standards and helping businesses prosper. It helps people to invest more in education or health care.
‐‐ Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is really hard. It's easy to do when you're writing a chapter of a book or writing poetry, but it's really hard to do when you're confined to a melody line.
‐‐ Nikki Sixx

Being able to score touchdowns and win games is a way to get a platform. But, ultimately, if that's what you do in your life, and that's what your life is based on, I don't know - I feel like that's a little bit of a meaningless life.
‐‐ Tim Tebow

Being able to scream at the top of my lungs in front of people is very therapeutic. It is a great gift for me to be able to do that.
‐‐ Dave Matthews

Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing.
‐‐ Bill Gates

Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.
‐‐ Patti Page

Being able to speak to all my fans is really cool - you always hear people cheering for you on the court, but to have messages of support in between tournaments is really motivating.
‐‐ Dominika Cibulkova

Being able to stay with a character over the course of years is a gift.
‐‐ Jennifer Hale

Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.
‐‐ Tori Amos