- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think people shouldn't try to be edgy, but you have to take what the audience says to you in consideration.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most songs I write are spur-of-the-moment-type things. I have to be spontaneous. If not, songwriting can bore me. There is no pre-design or idea of what I am going to do when I go into the studio. It's all like that for me. I could go in and write two or three songs in an eight-hour session. You can't over-think songs. You just can't.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emulate. You'd just be ripping them off.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love being in the studio, and I am a huge fan of live music. Without writing good stuff in the studio, you have nothing to play live.
- Glasses
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every comic went through their Mitch Hedberg phase - the glasses, the hair in the face - and you knew immediately when they were doing it.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're lucky enough to have 70 years of literate adulthood, and if you read one book every week, you're still only going to get to 3,640 books.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just gotta try to have fun. It's a business. You just gotta come out there and play hard because you never know when another player might take your spot.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people ask for book recommendations, I say this: Do some math. If you read one book every week for the rest of your life, and if you're lucky enough to live for 50 more years, you're only going to get to 2,600 books.
- Nov 07, 2020
My first signature was pretty long, but someone said, 'You need to shorten that up so much.'
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, if you wander long enough out-of-doors, you look up and find yourself in a suddenly devastating place: on a glittering slab of granite, say, hanging a thousand feet above a mountain lake.
- Nov 07, 2020
What I tell young writers is to find those things that you're so passionate about that your energy doesn't run away.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kind of do all of this writing as a way of thinking and learning. I'm sure it's similar to being a journalist: You get to learn, and that's the greatest kind of job.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
We buy a copy of 'Gravity's Rainbow,' say, and we carry our copy home. We open it; we fall into it. And it is here that the word 'copy' fails. Because what I experience when I read 'Gravity's Rainbow,' or 'Beloved,' or 'The Moviegoer,' is not at all a 'copy' of what you experience when you read the same novel.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020