- 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
- Moving On
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
- Nov 07, 2020
Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
- Eloquently
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.
- Nov 07, 2020
You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just 'works.' I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I learned working at magazines was that if you couldn't get people to look at a page or a cover, then you were fired. It was all about how you create arresting works, and by arresting I mean stop people, even for a nano-second.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020