- Feel
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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
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an actor, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try a lot of different things.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
From an early age, I understood the concept that, if you're not the star, then your job is to not pull attention away from the star.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was always taking photos of us at home, and even on set - he'd bring us along and stick us in the photos in the background. It was almost the beginning of acting for me, like, 'Hey, you go over there and play basketball in the background, and don't even think about the camera.'
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm looking forward to, as an actor, having to do some stuff that's out of my comfort zone. It makes for interesting work and when you're uncomfortable doing something; then it's going to be interesting when they film it.
- Devotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
In evangelical and Pentecostal churches, most people have a home church they identify with, but you have a favourite pastor or evangelist that you listen to occasionally. Studying scripture means you don't just read the Bible: you read devotional books and books designed to help your spiritual walk or the church broadly construed.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like romantic dates - going on a long walk in Central Park and then taking the subway downtown and going out to eat and ordering oysters. After that, you walk around again and talk.
- Nov 07, 2020
You are your main news platform, so no publication has as much power as you do about posting about yourself.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first movie I ever cried at was when I was 10 years old and saw 'The Notebook' in theaters. I was like, 'Whoa, so weird. Crying at a movie? I'm not supposed to do that. So weird.' I didn't know that art could make you do that.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know what I'm realizing? I always love a place if I like the movie I'm doing there. I've heard people say, 'I hate Pittsburgh,' and I'm like, 'I love Pittsburgh so much!' I loved what I was doing there, and I loved Austin for the same reason.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the racialized space of capitalist gentrification, police are not only arbiters of the peace, they are the muscle of retail racism: You can only be in this space if you transcend your blackness by showing us some green dollars. Even then, there is no guarantee that green will transcend your black skin.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think if you only work, then you won't have a life. It's tough to have a life when you're working a lot.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the good Christians of America are some of its biggest racists, one has to consider our moral responsibility to call out those who clearly are not for human flourishing, no matter what ethnicity a person is. Where are you on that scale? I know where I am.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020