- 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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's this zeitgeist happening, and people are more open to 'Sorry to Bother You' being a hit with 'Get Out' being out there. But that zeitgeist is also happening because of the movements going back to Occupy and Black Lives Matter. Usually, film is years behind. It just so happens that, this time, everything is lining up.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy shooting. Around where I live, it's something you do for entertainment once in a while, you go out and shoot targets.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
That existential crisis is something you rarely see portrayed by black characters; the idea that people think about their own existence and that they have hopes and dreams is taken away from people of color in their representation.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys think alike, but women tend to think about more things at the same time, an overgeneralization, but I find it easier to make my male characters focus than I do my female characters.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you tell a story that's only allegory, then it doesn't help you at all. If it doesn't bring some emotional charge, then it's just talking about something.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't read reviews, and I try not to read articles about me. It taints your outlook: if you believe the good things, you've got to believe the bad things, too.
- Global Village
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God's eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can't un-see.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to hate my bottom because as a dancer, you're supposed to have nothing there.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going to school in San Francisco, you're not going to meet as many people that are making films as you would if you went to film school in New York or L.A.
- Fitness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just have to express myself somehow, either through singing, dance or fitness. You get sick of it; you have days where you think you don't want to do it, but generally after I've done something, I feel better. That's why I do the exercise: to earn my bar of chocolate and cappuccino.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020