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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
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors. When you walk into it, then you see it in a completely different way. You discover it in a much slower, more majestic sort of way.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maine is wonderful. It can be very hard. I mean, if you look at the profile maps it doesn't look it, but somehow when you get out there it's really steep and hard.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always tell people there's only one trick to writing: You have to write something that people are willing to pay money to read. It doesn't have to be very good, necessarily, but somebody, somewhere, has got to be willing to pay money for it.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a lot. This isn't just common to me; it's anybody who's funny.
- Economic Activity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don't want to live with them.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never quite understood that feeling: that you arrive in a strange place, yet you want to have nothing but familiar experiences.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.
- Little Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like many of you, I've always been slightly obsessed with vampires, dating back to the prime-time series 'Dark Shadows,' which I followed avidly as a kid.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020