- Nov 07, 2020
Look Quotes
On perspective, hindsight and how we choose to see things.
The quotes here range from looking back on a career with no regrets to noticing how children in very different places can end up facing strikingly similar struggles. For more on outlook, see our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Characters written in 1990 would be acting like idiots if they were cast into the present. For example, the reader might wonder: Why isn't she texting? Where's her cellphone? Can't she have a simple paternity test? For God's sake, look on the Internet and check him out!
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I take the six weeks of the school summer holidays off because I'm pretty sure I'm not going to look back on my life one day and say, 'Damn, I wish I hadn't spent so much time with my children.'
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I must always, always have a box of Extra chewing gum in my bag because I have developed a terrible cheek-chewing compulsion. It's not only uncomfortable, but I look really weird when I'm doing it, and chewing gum is the only way I can stop myself.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I watch any kind of competition, my immediate reaction when they call out the name of the winner is to look at the loser.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write in cafes, never at home. I cannot focus at home, am forever getting off my chair to do other things. In a cafe, I have to sit still, or I'll look a bit unhinged.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never had one of those glorious young bodies that make older men and women weep. So I don't tend to look back with nostalgia or yearn for what I've lost. Because it was never all that.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a point in the latter 1990s at which, suddenly, every sitcom and drama in sight had to have a gay or lesbian character or couple. That was good news as a voucher of the success of the gay rights movement, but it still grew a bit tiresome: 'Look at us! Our show is so hip, one of the characters is homosexual!'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you have a disease like cancer, you look at life a bit differently. Some things that were important no longer seem as important as they were.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.
- Empathize
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you really want to be able to express what goes on with other people, you have to be able to look at them and empathize with them and not judge who they are and what they do.
- Nov 07, 2020
You know, the commander-in-chief's first responsibility is look out for those in uniform who fight the wars.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am one of those faces that it's sometimes, 'Oh my God, you look so familiar, but I can't pinpoint it.'
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I measure the amount of shows I should do by my hair. If my hair isn't good for campaigns and editorials, then obviously I am not going to look good.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020