- Money
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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
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action.
- Ending
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you continue to act like an artist as you get older, you'll increasingly feel pressure. People will question your actions.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People read legal writing differently. When you're at the crux of a legal argument, every step is a step in the argument. The judge will see any holes. If you do that in fiction, it's too long and boring.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fiction, the reader will make jumps with you. If you can make the reader make that leap with you, it's a thrilling moment for everyone.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have lots of girlfriends - all over the country! You think I'm kidding? I'm dead serious. Girlfriends everywhere.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020