Been Quotes

I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.

That’s definitely my goal, and always has been through the Universal Zulu Nation, is to show that music breaks down all that foolishness and can bring all types of people together, especially when you can mix it and shape it.

I have been the only female minister in every government department I’ve worked in.

I believe that many politicians think this has been the way it has always been, so what’s the problem?

The fact that I’ve been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

You never know what class you belong to unless you’re one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.

I’m always the person who’s taking everyone else’s kid and putting them on my hip, so I’ve kinda always been a mama.

I collect art, and I drink wine… things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, ‘I’m going to buy art to impress this crowd.’ That’s just ridiculous to me. I don’t live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself?

I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.