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Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.

Peter Lynch

Government

I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.

Kelly Lynch

Being

Living

While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty.

I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.

Lydia Lunch

Work

Being

Though I was a mother at 21, being a grandmother makes the whole thing absolutely normal and gorgeous. The relief, the joy of being a grandmother is wonderful.

If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didn't see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him.

Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance.

One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.

To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.

I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.

Barry Manilow has gone from being the love of my life to being a friend for life.

My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way.

I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable.

Josh Lucas

Being