- I Am
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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.
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- Debated
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only way to conduct an effective collaboration is to debate the things upon which you disagree. If one doesn't manage to bring the other around to his point of view, then whichever collaborator feels the most passionate about the thing being debated ought to get his way.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Talk about songs that make me cry: Track 7 on the 'Phineas and Ferb' soundtrack, 'Summer (Where Do We Begin?).' When you get to the part about sitting with your brother underneath the shade of a big tree in the backyard, ohmygod. Turn on the waterworks.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
To give you an idea about how old I'm getting, we had some family living in Texas for a while, and we went to the Texas museum at the University of Texas in Austin, and they had this whole Texas Instruments section, and my Speak & Spell was an exhibit in the museum.
- Editing Room
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're directing, you see your ideas. You see them created right in front of you on the monitor and the sound stage. You get that experience all over again when you get into the editing room and you start playing with it.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, 'Jake 2.0' had some funny things in it; I mean, I needed my sense of humor to do that part.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know it's important to have a Jeep in Los Angeles. That front wheel drive is crucial when it starts to snow on Rodeo Drive.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good thing because it's supposed to be poison. If it's making the tumor feel this queasy, then I'm OK with it.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process.
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