- How
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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
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I put quite a bit of study into the horn, that's true. In fact, the neighbors threatened to ask my mother to move once, you know.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since I've ever heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise - as clean as possible, anyway, and more or less tuned to people. Something they could understand, something that was beautiful, you know?
- Good Pair
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- Nov 07, 2020
Definitely, study is absolutely necessary in all forms - it's just like any talent that's born within somebody. It's just like a good pair of shoes when you put a shine on it, you know? Like, schooling brings out the polish of any talent. It happens anywhere in the world.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good roles are hard to come by, and whether they're a few lines or a lead, you snap 'em up when they come along.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you offer athletes stipends, then you're into pay-for-play, and that's the ballgame. People should realize that, and they should realize that amateurism never has been a sustainable model for a sports-entertainment industry. It wasn't in tennis. It wasn't in the Olympics. And it's not in big-time college sports.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great changes wrought by the increased public awareness of Alzheimer's - and thank you, Nancy Reagan, you wonderful tough old dame, you - is that people in the early stages of the disease are now speaking out while they still have the capacity to do so.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I watch these actors who when you go to buy a pint of milk you see them smiling on the cover of 20 magazines. Then when you see them in a film it's hard to believe the character because you just see them everywhere.
- Certain Degree
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Launching a newspaper without a coherent idea of how you're going to promote it, or get it to people who might want to read it, is like launching a boat without a rudder or an engine... or a hull, now that I think about it.
- Early Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020