- Funny
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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
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started out in the industry, I felt the need to say 'yes' to everything. You wanted to be an actor, so you took acting jobs.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is so much heartbreak and letdown in this industry. You get your heart set on something, and then you're sitting by the phone for three weeks and it never rings.
- Chopping
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the kind of TV I like to watch, where you just don't know what's going to happen.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You'd just be amazed what people will do. You really would. And not crazy people. Ostensibly normal people. When the right person touches the right button in someone, you can get them to do almost anything.
- Glorify
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- Nov 07, 2020
Psychopaths are actually, really, really, really rare in our culture, are people who don't... Or in society, in the world. They're people who don't feel guilt. They're people who don't feel fear. I think that most of us feel those things. There's a kind of... They're almost like superheroes. Not to glorify them, but you know what I mean?
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?'
- Certain Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.
- Cranking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.
- Nov 07, 2020
Write as if you were dying.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020