- 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
- Too Much
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't worry too much about profile; otherwise, you become a different kind of actor, and that's not the kind of actor I want to be.
- Nov 07, 2020
There are some roles you just don't say 'no' to. Those compass points: you get them so rarely as an actress.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the thing - you do a job like 'Shameless,' and suddenly that's why you can get a job like 'The Virgin Queen', not because of all the classical theatre you've done. But we can be very snippy about television. It's absolutely the most potent and powerful form of storytelling we have.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to want to be married to someone. You have to feel that reciprocated. Marriage for marriage's sake doesn't make any sense to me, and I found someone with whom I could put my money where my mouth is, I guess.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter what your passion is, you really can find it within the Army. The opportunities really are endless and the sky is not the limit.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love rom-coms, and I was bummed that they sort of stopped making them around the time I was old enough to be in them. But at the same time, I so respected the fact that the genre kind of needed an update. But you know, even when rom-coms were at their hey-day, very few people did it at the level of Nancy Meyers.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People never know what's going on while it's happening. You think, during the Renaissance, people called it 'The Renaissance'?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a fantastic privilege to spend three or four hundred pages with a reader. You have time to go into certain questions that are painful or difficult or complicated. That's one thing that appeals to me very much about the novel form.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Are people angry with me? Sure, anything you do in your life, people are going to be angry at you.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was with Ellen, I was telling people, If you come out, it's gonna be better for you. But I honestly don't know that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are coming out, you say it's for you. But when everybody says it's not OK, it becomes about that rather than about you. It disappointed me.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020