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- Nov 07, 2020
Matter Quotes
On what actually counts.
This page starts with a striking reframe of confinement as something that can happen mentally even to people who are physically free, and pairs it with career advice about simply landing that first entry-level role. For related thinking, see Life.
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone puts a character in front of me - no matter what it is, whether there has been a film or not - I want to be that character, not imitate it. There's a difference - a big difference.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't matter if you're a Victoria's Secret model or you're someone's 90-year-old grandma or you're a little kid who's getting bullied or you're that kid's bully - everybody feels like there's something going on that's more correct than what is. We all have to reach out to one another in that fear, and we'd be surprised to hear, 'Me, too.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
With families, no matter what kind you inherit, at some point you want to announce that you belong to it.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not enough to receive support, no matter, how needed it may be. It is fundamental to know how to receive this support and ensure that its result is exponential.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't matter who other people are saying the favourite is; I'm still going in to win the gold medal.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is the job of a comedian: To take unpleasant subject matter and forcibly, with his hands, wring the funny out of it.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never let the media dictate my identity, so the fact that I'm a size 14 or a size 2 or a size 8 or a size 4, I kind of rock and roll. It doesn't matter to me.
- Insecurity
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't matter what gender you are, or it doesn't matter what other background you come from: everybody deals with insecurity.
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parading our own brilliance and exulting in other people's errors is not very nice. For that matter, even wanting to parade our own brilliance and exult in other people's errors is not very nice, although it is certainly very human.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your creative life can continue to just turn inside out and evolve in ways that you can't possibly imagine, whether or not you decide to be a parent. It doesn't matter.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can read a newspaper article, and it might trigger something else in my mind. I often like to choose in historical fiction things or subject matter I don't feel have been given a fair shake in history.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even your most talented employees have room for growth in some area, and you're doing your employee a disservice if the sum of your review is: 'You're great!' No matter how talented the employee, think of ways he could grow towards the position he might want to hold two, five, or 10 years down the line.
- Nov 07, 2020