- Impossible
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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
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are chauvinistic mind, you will not be able to take the fact there is a strong, successful girl.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
The decisions that you make in your career stem out from the experiences you have early on in your career.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want the kids in the Philippines to compete with the world, with other kids out there, to have the opportunity. You never know, you might find the next Black Eyed Peas out there.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have three brothers and one sister, and I'm the third child. Sometimes people say, 'It's only natural you would become a writer - your parents were English professors.' But my four siblings were brought up in the exact same household, and no one else became a writer or an English professor.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think maybe short stories operate in some of the same ways that poems do. They frame single or small moments and elevate those. They give you insight into more minor dramas maybe, dramas between smaller groups of people.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel that's a good thing as an actor that you do not feel satisfied. Whenever I go back and watch myself on screen, I find multiple reasons to redo that scene. That's an occupational hazard that most actors face. You can never come to terms with it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a little hesitant to make my characters sentimental or to risk having the work labeled sentimental. It's something that I resist as a reader, and I don't resist it in life. I'm not an unmoved person by any stretch, but I think I don't want, I guess, to indulge those kinds of things sometimes in fiction. I can't tell you why exactly.
- Fervently
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess the thing I would say most fervently is that your original impulse to write something is an impulse you should trust, and that if it doesn't work on the first draft, which it hardly ever does, the commitment to revising ought to be something you embrace really early. And to revise and revise and revise.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think what I like best is that when people give talks or workshops, it doesn't really matter what level you are as a writer - whether you are a beginner, or you've been around the block a bit; there's something that you can take away from every session.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel there is a great sense of achievement coming from a non-filmy background. But when you are going through a low phase, you don't have anybody to advice you because your parents possibly can't advice you on that.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words in a person's word stock are like paints on a palette. It helps to have just the right shade when you need it.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter where we live, we have to use words. Once you've been looking into words, their stories, it's easy to fall in love with them.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every individual suffers from the fear of failure, but you can change your destiny only when you overcome it.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a popular director or actor's son can be frightening in this industry. What if you are not able to make it?
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020