- Just
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is not a special place in Hell for people who didn't support Sarah Palin. Do you know what I mean? It's ridiculous. And there is certainly not a special place in Hell for women who don't support Hillary Clinton.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Work hard to achieve integrity in your work and your relationships with the people you work with.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from the rougher side of Sydney. I don't know whether you can compare them to the projects, but in Australia, it definitely is the rougher side.
- Players
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite moment of the 2012 election was the debate question where they asked Romney and Obama what they would do to stem gun violence, and Romney's answer was you should marry someone.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For people to come to you and say, 'Would you like to be a part of our show?' after years of 'Please tell me I'm good enough,'... I can't tell you how wonderful it feels.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not Irish. Just because I have red hair doesn't mean I'm a lucky charm, you know?
- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do accents. Sometimes when I've had a few drinks, I speak in different accents all night long, and then at the end of an evening someone will say to me, 'Seriously, where are you from?'
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world you live in is not a given; much of what is best in it has been built through the struggles of passionate activists over the last centuries. They won us many freedoms and protected many beauties. Count those gifts among your growing heap.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
With short stories, you can always see the whole, but it's just so hard to get everything you want into that small form.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers often like to talk about how intuitive the writing process is, but in truth, building a book is a remarkably unintuitive task. Or, to put it more accurately, you need a lot more than intuition. You need plot and characters. You need a setting. You need a theme that is relevant and supported by your text.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to walk, you're some place that's already interesting. You're not just between places. Things are happening.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing a short story is like painting a picture on the head of a pin. And just getting everything to fit is - sometimes seems impossible. Writing a novel, though, is - has its own challenges of scope. And I think of that as painting a mural, where the challenge is that if you are close enough to work on it, you're too close to see the whole thing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My sister's a musician. Everyone else in our family, it's either academics or artists of one kind or another. And those are the people that I think I like to hang out with, too. I think, you know, they're always interesting; they lead interesting lives, and I think they're important for everyone to read about because everyone is an artist in a way.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020