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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 Aug 03, 2026
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a reader, when the writer gets sentimental, you drift, because there's something fishy going on there. You recognize a moment that's largely about the writer and the writer's own need to believe in something that might not in fact exist. As a reader, you think, 'Where did the story go? Where did the person I'm reading about go?'
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Illness transforms the things you most fear into the things you crave and would hold onto if you could.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think you get better at staring into space. Especially living in the South of France.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been interested in films where you can identify with the actors. Where you can be in their shoes and therefore be more involved if they're people that you recognize.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sure, there's pressure when you have one dart at double top when there's a world 'championship to be won, but real 'pressure is what our troops are doing in 'Afghanistan.
- Pool
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- Nov 07, 2020
With a pool table it's #2 to play. If you have a set of darts you don't have to pay and that's what it is.
- Footballer
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- Nov 07, 2020
You go to a lot of cities they've got these great big footballer's houses. There's not many in Stoke-on-Trent.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.
- Nov 07, 2020