- 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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always so early in here, before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. The sketches, all of them, want to become real.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language... it is quite demanding because if it is not your mother tongue, you are missing some connotations and some emotional depth of certain things.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.
- Newspaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a little more leeway in the writing style.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never knowingly, I swear to God, written satire. The word connotes exaggeration of the foibles of mankind. To me, mankind just has foibles. You don't have to push it!
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working on newspapers, you're writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor - women can't drive, things like that. That's about the level of a lot of newspaper humor. It becomes a form of laziness.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020