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- 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
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always mildly unnerving when you're hanging upside down 70 feet in the air.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always like to do sound design, and in movies, you have more leeway with that, but I don't really notice that sound design is being used in TV other than just location sound.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really believe in the last name Hoffa being something powerful. You want to live your life to bring honor to that name.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of ignoring your past, only to confront it later in life, is a familiar experience whether you come here from Hungary or French Canada or Ireland.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny how getting older - or being overlooked and underrated for more than two decades - can make you change your ambitions.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have lost people like I lost my birth mom at a young age and you remember the whole process of losing her, you want to grab on to something that makes you whole.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
The instant feeling I had after I gave birth was you couldn't get that baby in my hands fast enough.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it was time to go to college, I was going to apply to Boston University for journalism, and dad said, 'Why not apply to NYU film school, because you love telling stories and taking pictures?' And I thought, 'Oh, I can do that for a job? Cool!'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I subconsciously knew you needed life experience to direct, and the best films are directed by people who have really lived, with exceptions like Orson Welles, who just burst out of the gate. There are prodigies like that, but for me, personally, I thought I needed life experience.
- Assumed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a big PlayStation fan. Even when the Xbox first came out, I stuck with the PlayStation. I think it's because when the Xbox first came out, the controller was so different that you just automatically assumed that it was harder to play, and I always just stuck with that notion.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've DP'd so many films for first-time directors, and I know the trauma, the heartbreak, the vulnerability, how much you have to believe in the story.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you join the NFL, you start from scratch. As long as I've been playing - which has been since I was eight years old - the game becomes harder at every level. Little league, high school, college - they're different stages you have to go through, and professional sport is completely different again.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like directing is more about who the individual is rather than if they're a man or a woman. It's kind of hard to generalize and group all of us female filmmakers into one group, like we're all going provide you with the same thing, because we're not. We're all individuals.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.
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- Nov 07, 2020