- Me
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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
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that, at the end of the day, I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work in the same way that the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle does: Sometimes you just want to put it down or throw it out the window, but there's a real rewarding sense if you feel like you've cracked it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience's trust.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person - to it just being a thing you occasionally do.
- Nov 07, 2020
The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
- Grail
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician of any kind of caliber, your holy grail was to be in that orchestra. It was that claim to fame of the school, of the town, other than the university. But it was better than the university band.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It's giving that person a lot of power.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020