Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the victim. We have to let go of both characters in the story.
Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.
Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being told to look at 'proper' books, which means books without pictures.
My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I'm smart and have opinions worth being heard.
We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another inte...
I loved Veronica right off the bat. She was so strong and I think it is so important because there are so few shows that portray women, especially young women, as being strong and being able to stand up for themselves.
I never saw "being different" in and of itself as the point to "being Goth" -- dressing different from most others, maybe, but the point to me was to get together with people who liked the same music and clothes, or at least very similar music and cl...
[first lines] Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is found in death. Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one's body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears, and s...
Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
Seeing is different from being told.
I like being in kids' movies, and I like being in family movies.
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
Being afraid is the worst sin there is.
When at a young age you learn to face your fears, that makes the difference between people being champions and people not being champions.
At the core, we're all spiritual beings.
Being an American musician means being adventurous.
There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.
I love being famous - it's phenomenal.
I never thought about being famous.
The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous.
At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.
