- 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
- Meet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the phenomenons of American political life is that it all stops one day. One day, you've got 200 reporters and cameras, and everybody is hanging on you. And three days later, you're alone. And it's quite a transition.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.
- Able
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020