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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
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can fake a lot of stuff, but you can't fake if the story isn't there and if the writing isn't good.
- Nov 07, 2020
I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Buses and subways are this remarkable social club. You talk to people you wouldn't normally talk to.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you looked at my music collection and saw an album that was a soundtrack to a musical, it's probably because I had bought it to learn the music so I could go and audition.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took it to heart that in order to be a good person, you never said anything mean about anybody.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020