- Love
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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
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been fortunate to be short my entire life. There's only one position I've ever had to play, and that's point guard. So I've always had to be that leader. And that was my job: you know, to talk.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the time, if you ask a kid who's their best friend, it's usually a classmate or their neighbor or something, but for me, it was my granddad. Everybody knew him - they called him Mr. Jones.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have the smaller guards - whether it be 6 feet, 6-2, 6-1, or under - they're the most energetic, and they set the pace, whether it be shoot-around, practice, and in the game.
- Colleagues
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a book editor, you need to pitch every one of your books again and again, dozens of times, for months on end. From a quick conversation with your boss or a letter that'll be read by just one person, to a five-minute speech in front of 50 colleagues or cover copy that'll be in front of millions of eyes.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Expats are a self-selecting group of outgoing, confident people - if you're not those things, you probably don't choose this adventure - and the lifestyle is very conducive to making fast, close friends.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can't figure out how to make the beginning of your book compelling, you're probably not writing a compelling book.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're a general manager, you don't get to see every single player, so you have to rely on your scouts.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
The basketball experience that I have, you can use in different areas, but coaching itself, you have to go out there and learn on the fly.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having 'The Expats' not be 'wholesale-y' rejected by the world made it possible for me to write the second book and have a publisher buy it before it was entirely written. And it made it easier for me and my publisher to get 'The Accident' out into the world without trying to convince people to pay attention to it the way you do for a first novel.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't envy these kids these days. Between Instagram and Twitter... the easiest thing is just take your phone off the hook, and you're good.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
You practice, you prepare, just go out, and let it flow. Just go play ball. You have to go out there and play loose and play free.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to believe that you are the character or the thing or whatever the hell you're playing.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020