- 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
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you really want something bad enough, if you're really interested in something enough, you know, you just keep working on it.
- Nov 07, 2020
One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best people to listen to are those who have already been successful accomplishing exactly what you are seeking to accomplish.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your personal capacity to handle more valuable projects will go up when you appreciate yourself more.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back then, as a kid, you made a choice of who you liked, and it was either us or 'Take That.' And if you liked 'East 17', it showed you knew what was going on, you were clued up, had better taste in music.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write R-rated action dramas, and every year that goes by, that gets to be a smaller and smaller world you have to work in. You have to think of how to get the studio excited and sell them something.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really write with living actors in mind. I guess I write for dead actors. I'll think of like, you know, Burt Lancaster would be good in this part, and so on. With 'L.A. Confidential,' it was like, 'Wouldn't it be cool if Dean Martin played the Kevin Spacey part?'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you write an original, it's like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, it's like the oil well's on fire, and they bring you in to put the fire out and get it working again - or something like that.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, 'Ooh, how could you cut this down to size and make a movie out of it?'
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are plenty of writers who are going to become a director after their next job, but no one will believe you're a director unless you believe it.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020