- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always turned down stuff where you had to be fat. I may be fat, but that's not why you play a role. If the guy has to be that way, I say get somebody else because I'm not doing any fat acting.
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, when something like, even like a coal mine disaster, or something like this, you think that well everybody's going to make a run to be able to get out, but it happened to fast that they were just all dead.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Frankly, seeing my plays with an audience is something I do with gritted teeth; I find the experience very difficult. I love the moment when you have just the dress rehearsal, when no one's there; that's kind of the peak to me. When people start filing in, I like to file out.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.
- Today
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But ten years later somehow, you don't quite know what problems are worth working on.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you read all the time what other people have done, you will the think the way they thought.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother wanted me to be a writer. But she was a child of the Depression and never understood that she wasn't poor. So, you know, the idea of not having a job, it would creep through. But she tried very hard to be subtle about it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need to remind people that you vote, you matter, and that they can't succeed without your help.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think you want to hurt businesses that are making $250,000 or $500,000. Those are the real people who created the opportunity to put people to work.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020