- Me
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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
- Contributing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America I would never be able to make myself a person who could contribute. I wasn't interested in that society; I was interested in this society.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have a company that doesn't sell its goods or services abroad and focuses only on the domestic market, it will keep paying a price.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I stumble about what I'm going to do. I don't plan. I've never had ambitions.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
It costs a lot of money to release a movie. What you'd call art-house movies - movies that don't have big stars or big budgets - they're very hard for distributors to get behind 'em and take chances.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black is overrated. You'll never find it in my stores. Of course it's slimming, but it's just used too much, especially for men. One black suit by one designer, another one by another - they all look the same in the end. If I walk into a crowded hotel lobby and I'm wearing a black suit, I just look like everyone else.
- Computer Screen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just being able to get paid to do something you love is a wonderful thing. That said, a writer's daily routine, unless you're Dominick Dunne, isn't exactly glamorous. Much of it amounts to drudgery, staring at a computer screen all day in a room by yourself, juggling nouns and verbs to make a demanding editor happy.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're going off to prison for the rest of your life, a lot of people do feel the need to explain themselves to all the people they have known.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always a slight tension when you sell a book to Hollywood, especially a nonfiction book. The author wants his story told intact; the nonfiction author wants it told accurately.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are an investor, I hope that you will stay with me for three, four, ten years. But if you ask me to make profits in ways that I have to change my allure, I won't do that. I won't lose my identity.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Guys want a 500 horsepower car. I'd rather have one horsepower - in a horse. That's macho. You go to pick up your date and you show up on a horse.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I say to my industrialist friends, when you have guests from out of town, I don't care how important they are, you should feed them the essence of Italian culture: spaghetti, bread and olive oil.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020