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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
During a campaign, the trick is to spend no more than 15 to 30 seconds with anyone and to keep moving so that you not only shake a few hundred hands but also have a thousand people see you doing it.
- Easter
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- Nov 07, 2020
For those of you who still believe in the Easter Bunny and that the letters that appear in your local newspaper come from concerned citizens who really care, I've got troubling news. At least in politics, most of the letters that get published on the letters-to-the-editor page originate in the campaign headquarters of the candidates.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you go to a political convention, the best place to spend time is at the numerous parties put on by lobbyists. And you don't go for food. You go to beg for money.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I am in New York, you know, my studio is big, about 20,000 to 25,000 square feet, and I have painting rooms and rooms I do etching in, rooms I do lithographs.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I put my brush to canvas, I never know what I'm going to paint. It's like when you're walking down the street with your hands in your pockets, humming a tune, you don't know what you'll be humming five minutes from now.
- High Wire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.
- Half The Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you go into a bank or a shop and you want them to believe that you're going to shoot them, that's an acting exercise. If you want to turn to someone else who's as tooled up as you are and persuade them to put their knife down because you'll use your knife, that's an acting exercise. Nine out of 10 delinquents are frustrated actors.
- Feedback
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.
- Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020