Becoming Quotes - Page 26

• When you start playing a character every day for seven weeks, it suddenly starts becoming easier.

  Carey Mulligan

  Character, Week, Seven

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I was always amazed the way people would come in looking one way and transform completely to the point where I couldn't recognize their language, their accent, the way they looked, their hair, their face even changed becoming so inside of the character.

  Alicia Keys

  Character, Hair, People

  "Jeremy Piven, Ryan Reynolds, Alicia Keys, Common and Nestor Carbonell on Shooting Smokin' Aces". MovieWeb interview, www.movieweb.com. January 22, 2007.

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• Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Mean, Soul, Quality

  Michel de Montaigne, George Savile Marquis of Halifax (1743). “Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator”, p.168

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• Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Greatness, Men

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• Isn't the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Ego, Conflict, Ifs

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• Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do communicate it are always people who have had a hard time. Then the joy has no smugness or self-righteousness in it, is inclusive not exclusive, and comes close to prayer.

  May Sarton

  Prayer, Real, Artist

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.127, Open Road Media

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• Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. . . . When I can find no other occupation, I think; and when I think, I am very apt to do it in rhyme.

  William Cowper

  Men, Thinking, Care

  William Cowper (1853). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel”, p.17

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• I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain.

  Tom Waits

  Brain, Eccentric, Rooms

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• What is there about polarity that is matter becoming more complex?

  Norman Mailer

  Opposites, Matter, Complexes

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• The timelessness of art is its capacity to represent the transformation of endless becoming into being.

  Lewis Mumford

  Art, Transformation, Immortality

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• Historically in restaurants, the service staff is awarded significantly higher wages than cooks and other staff who prepare the food on which a restaurant's reputation is based. The gap in pay is so great that it is becoming increasingly difficult for young cooks to pursue their passion at the rate of pay restaurants are able to afford.

  Thomas Keller

  Passion, Cooking, Gaps

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• If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action. Instead of becoming sidetracked by distractions and diversions, your time is focused on a straight line from start to finish.

  Brian Tracy

  Clear Goals, Focus, Lines

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• It is precisely the way which is productive - this is the essential thing; becoming is more important than being.

  Paul Klee

  Important, Essentials, Way

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.115, Parkstone International

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• It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Self, Might, Said

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will disagree, but I know from research and personal experimentation with more than a dozen languages that (1) adults can learn languages much faster than children when constant 9-5 work is removed and that (2) it is possible to become conversationally fluent in any language in six months or less. At four hours per day, six months can be whittled down to less than three months.

  Tim Ferriss

  Children, Work, Research

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• It's partly the Southernization of America, in that the Southern working-class version of redneck is becoming the national version, and it's good-natured, it has humor and, in some ways, it's a performance.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Redneck, Class, America

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• You end up becoming who you are by jumping into that circle of fear - that's how it's done.

  Paula Abdul

  Fear, Jumping, Circles

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• Asked whether donor nations may be becoming fatigued ... The fatigue may be there, but I don't think we can justify it in the face of such misery. We may need to wake up our conscience and our conscience must force us to act.

  Kofi Annan

  Thinking, May, Faces

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• But many researchers operate as if it is their responsibility to demonstrate that video violence has a direct effect on the behaviour of young children, because that will help to explain why society is becoming more violent.

  Hugh Mackay

  Children, Responsibility, Direct Effect

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• Teen girls are figuring out what they want out of life and who they want to be. They are becoming more and more independent, and are starting to make decisions that will affect them now and into the future. Combine this new responsibility with all the stress and pressures in their lives and the result, unfortunately, can be substance abuse.

  Atoosa Rubenstein

  Girl, Stress, Independent

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• Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!

  Edmund Stoiber

  Vanity, Political, Berlin

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• Goodness is a process of becoming, not of being. What we do over and over again is what we become in the end.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Goodness, Ends, Process

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• Memory is not about what went on in the past, it is about what is going on inside us right this moment. … It is made up of the stuff of life in the process of becoming the grist of the soul.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Memories, Past, Soul

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• Disarmament should be conducive to the enhancement of every country's general security instead of becoming the instrument and means for a few countries to strengthen their military superiority by weakening or restricting other countries.

  Sha Zukang

  Country, Military, Mean

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• At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky.

  Adyashanti

  Journey, Sky, Lightning

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