- Life
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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
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The challenge for a director - and I think a lot of directors feel the same way - is that today we have to put on a producer's hat, too. Meaning, you have to sometimes think of it being 'business show,' not just 'show business.'
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
At one point, there wasn't a black quarterback in the NFL. When you start winning, then you start seeing more. Jumping up and down and screaming and calling people names is not going to change anything.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I watched the 'Seven Samurai' a lot because I loved it growing up. I can't describe to you how powerful that was. When you're a kid, you can't watch an almost-three-hour movie, but this was a war I just never saw before, with these samurai. I could relate to it, just being poor.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you win, if you make money. If you do quality work, then other people of color, whatever color that is, can get in the door.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up on the East Coast, and we always used to say, 'Go get your hustle on,' whether it was playing sports or making money. You do what you have to do to do what you want to do.
- Sitting
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're sitting ringside, there's a primal thing there that hooks into violence and excitement. It's just two guys going at it in the ring - there's no team, no one to pass the ball to - and there's a certain excitement to that.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
- Colleague
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you disagree with the way a colleague did something, call him up, invite him out for a coffee, talk about it. But don't do it publicly.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to feed your soul and spirit, but you also have to be a professional and remember the business that you're in. Everything is not your passion project.
- Bad Guys
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't just have to see superhero movies. Ultimately, those movies are westerns - superheroes are good guys fighting bad guys in a landscape. In westerns, that divide couldn't be any more clear, but the only superpower you have is that you're a quicker shot than the other guy.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our culture, I think that there is no markers anymore. Young men don't really have something that says you're a grown up now, until you have a baby.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're a director, and you look at Scorsese's work, he's always challenging us to push the envelope and break the rules. Someone like that is necessary and a godsend.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to get off the bus, and there'd be a crowd around, you know, and I was thinking, 'God, I hope this is not for me.' And it normally was, and it was because someone said something to my sister, and the first she says is, 'Well, I'll get my brother.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020