- Father
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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
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's absolutely nothing anyone can say about my mother or myself or my step-father that we haven't heard before. You'd have to be a Dickens or a Nabakov to come up with something really offensive.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
All you care about with your parents is that they are happy, and my mother is exceptionally happy at the moment, and I've always adored my stepfather, and he's always been a kind and good and lovely man.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a very open-armed experience in Australia - you feel immediately welcomed - I felt being here for three months - honoured, delighted, proud.
- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
You get lots of people, especially where I live, who go in to a butcher and insist on organic beef - even when the butcher has better-tasting stuff from a farm that's been producing wonderful meat for 100 years but hasn't jumped through the hoops to get organic certification.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
- Nov 07, 2020
If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction and that going to a movie is a way to get back, not go away.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know it sounds crazy, but you've got to let what you're going to do find you, rather than you pursuing it.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I probably have a creepy kind of scary quality. Otherwise, I wouldn't get jobs. But I also think it has a little bit to do with, you've done it a couple times, and then people see you that way.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always feel freelance writers are leading a heroic life. I think that is the real writer's life. On the other hand, it's good to have another job. It gives you something to do.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020