- Matter
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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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that, being on the road, you've got your family with you, so there's no way that you can have a closer feeling to a group of people that you love than when you sit down and have a dinner or a lunch or a breakfast together.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the great thing about social media: you can make one move, and everybody knows about it, and I kind of like that.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all have our ups and our downs, and it's consistent throughout all of our lives. It's not a movie: you don't get to a point where, suddenly, you're free forever - it's life.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you love the music that you're going to play, of course you're going to do your best.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leonard Cohen is probably the greatest lyricist for music that's ever lived, you know?
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you hear me sit at the piano by myself and do one of those super-personal, confessional songs, that's where my true voice is.
- Poet
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- Nov 07, 2020
But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mama never told me, 'Bess, you did good.' She wanted the best for us and she was an incredible administrator. She ran those three kids, that house, the whole bit. But if I looked fine, she'd find something wrong - the color, the hem... I used to tell her, 'Mama, don't worry when you're not with me, because you're with me.'
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020