- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone Quotes
On the someones who shape a moment.
This page includes praise for a steady presence who doesn't panic under pressure, and a note on a fictional character built to feel relatable even in impossible circumstances. For similar reflections, see Know.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had to compete against someone almost two feet taller than me, I wouldn't want to play.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I rarely get recognised. It's always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it's a love scene with someone you actually love, there's no feeling like, 'Can I touch him here? Can I touch him there?' You know what your boundaries are - or what they aren't, I suppose.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sookie is always in distress, it wouldn't be 'True Blood' if someone wasn't trying to kill her.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.
- Nov 07, 2020
You want to have fun with your kids, and no one has fun with someone who runs roughshod.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's one thing to look at someone like Beyonce and Rihanna and to see how beloved and talented they are, and it's another thing to live inside it.
- Diminishes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty diminishes confidence. So if someone offers you a grain store, even if you really need a plough, you take what is offered to you.
- Want
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't want someone who will get 98 percent of the vote. We want someone who will get 51 percent of the vote.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Charlie Sykes - someone none of us have ever heard of - is suddenly the star of MSNBC and CNN once he comes out against Trump.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020