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Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.
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Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
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Being a runner means you are now 'free' to win and lose and live life to its fullest.
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Being a stand-up comic, this isn't a stepping-stone for me; it's what I do, and this is what I'm always going to do. And even if I do a TV show, the only reasons to do a TV show is to get more people to know me to come out to my stand-up shows.
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Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors.
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Being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression, otherwise I would have been free to be so much more.
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Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
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Being cold is not debilitating. We learned that from the Eskimos. They could be cold, and they could function. And you could function better when you're cold than when you're hot. I mean, hot, you become overheated, and, you know, you lose energy. If you're cold, you could function being cold. Now, frozen is different.
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Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself.
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Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.
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Being constantly with the children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.
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Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well; and requires no less practice.
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Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.
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Being exposed to different production environments in Korea, Japan and the U.S. was a great experience, and each system allows you to quench your thirst in a different way.
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't looking for that.
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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
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Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.
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Being in Nashville was not me, and I needed to go home and reset before I got in over my head.
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Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed, and you are surrounded by people who are very self-absorbed.
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