- Green
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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
- Better Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
It just seems there's better things to do in your life than be on television if it's not interesting, if it's not challenging, if it's not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I'll stop making television.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're nurturing them, you're providing sustenance - it was never pure.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Learned to read, and for a while as a kid, you think books are just leaves on trees. Then suddenly, you think a human being is making that, and maybe you could do that.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my early 20s, a friend and I worked for a few months on a sheep farm in New Zealand. Working with ewes, I learned a lot about the power of wool - how it keeps you cool when you're hot, warm when you're cold, dry when you're wet.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You and I can go on YouTube and learn how to fix a tractor engine or learn Farsi. Groups are using those tools to recruit young people into a climate of hatred.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most amazing gift about being a novelist is that you get to pursue your curiosity every day.
- Cooking
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That's God talking.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need to be imagining all the time, imagining yourself outside the walls of your own skull.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every artist wants an audience, and it's incredible to me how books take on a life of their own and reach people whom you could never meet. That's what got me interested in writing in the first place.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice... they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was reading C.S. Lewis with my mom, and she was pointing out that he was dead, and I'm like, 'What do you mean he's dead?' We were in this world he created, and he was gone from the Earth. Yet in those black marks on a white page, his imagination lived on, his voice lived on. That is so miraculous.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had the little Radio Shack crystal radio, and then my aunt Judy bought me a shortwave radio. It was amazing to me: like on these really clear nights - I lived in Ohio - I could get Texas or Florida. You felt like the world was a smaller place.
- Nov 07, 2020
You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020