- Control
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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
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been enormously fortunate. People say, 'How do you feel about your reputation?' My real belief is that I have exactly the reputation I deserve... on the whole, I feel comfortable with myself.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell people I never got to hear Dylan Thomas read because my husband wouldn't let me, because he thought it would be a sort of bad influence. People say, 'And you didn't go?' They're so surprised because the me they know would have gone. And I say I was very much a 'yes, dear' wife.
- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020
I miss CDs. I miss listening to a whole album, even the lame songs that sometimes grow on you.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prior to being bullied, I was a very footloose sixth-grader. You know, I was quirky, I was creative - I really felt good in my own body. And when I was bullied in seventh grade, my self-esteem tanked.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything you do to other people affects them, and how you treat people affects them.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can't take something down in 10 bullets, you probably shouldn't even own a gun.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every day, you have to make three hours of music, just randomly improvising, and that's a great way to weed stuff out.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great thing about having a child is that it keeps you very grounded. When I decided to have my daughter I was ready to have that responsibility and I made it clear to people that I work with that my job was no longer my priority. My daughter is now my priority. She comes first. Period.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I had my daughter, my priorities shifted. Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed and surrounded by people that are self-absorbed.
- Figuring
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've done a lot of performance practice, Baroque playing, and some of the joy and the challenge of it is figuring out what the composer intended... You have music of the 17th century - it's all whole notes and half notes. But inside of that, there are so many things that one can do, at least according to what we know about performance practice.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
You see airbrushed images of me, but I know the person who's walking barefoot, dodging dog poo in the yard.
- Curious
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was curious about experimenting with different colors - kind of like having an expanded orchestra. Suddenly, instead of just writing for strings, you can add bassoon and oboe and brass. I like these extreme differences in sounds right next to each other.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed, and you are surrounded by people who are very self-absorbed.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020