- 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
When my dad played me 'Walking Man,' I heard those chord changes and that melody, it completely blew me away. Maybe you wouldn't really hear the James Taylor influences in my music, but they're definitely buried in there.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I was on a 'Modern Family' kind of show, and they said, 'You have to say that the burger is $5.55; Have a good day!'... I could do that!
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I don't understand is how people want you to replicate your past successes. Being an artist should be about freedom and not just becoming one thing, because I think that's terrible and boring.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I like about fairy tales is that they highlight the emotions within a story. The situations aren't real, with falling stars and pirates. But what you do relate to is the emotions that the characters feel.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was at a school in England, a prep school, from the ages of 8 and 13. And every play they did was a musical. Parents love musicals. And I don't sing. It was driving me crazy. 'We're doing 'Macbeth.' 'Yes!' 'The musical!' And I was always in the chorus, because of course, in all the main parts, you had to be able to sing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fame terrifies me. I can say that with honesty. You're terrified that, when people know the real you, they won't like you.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was weird. Like, people came up to me and knew me as Daredevil before any footage had come out. I remember a guy on the subway being like, 'You're Charlie Cox. You're Daredevil.' And I was like, 'Yeah...?' I was barely Daredevil. I hadn't even signed the contract, you know?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020