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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
It might help to know that in Afghanistan citizenship papers and birth certificates and the official registration of births and deaths are the exotica of faraway places. One is born 'in the time of the pomegranate harvest' or some such thing or one's birthdate is recorded as the first day of the year if you are even aware of the year you were born.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're old and you lose, they say you're outmoded. If you're young and you lose, they say you're green. So don't lose.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.
- Deep Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's a song about reaching deep inside yourself where you can completely be who you are.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My thing is you're only as good as the people you work with. I've been blessed to work with the Wayanses and Eddie Murphy and Adam Sandler and Chris Rock, and it makes you better.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can reach out and touch and love and be with wildlife, you will forever be changed, and you will want to make the world a better place.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people, especially comedians, just feel like, 'Oh, I can be charming and whatever, and have fun, and everybody is just going to like me.' But you've got to work. There's got to be a real work ethic that gets you better.
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- Nov 07, 2020