- Imagination
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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
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.
- Truth
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- Nov 07, 2020
My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.
- Coffee
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to, even if you, you know, are going to have to go without a cup of coffee or even a meal, that that should nourish you.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you think about it, words can break your heart, or they can change your day.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think every role you get is going to be a powerful one. As long as you go in with the mindset of, 'Yeah, I'm going to make the most of this.' So that's the kind of attitude I take into each role that I play.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been writing the same book my whole life - that you're in one family, and all of a sudden, you're in another family, and it's not your choice, and you can't get out.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
You learn every time you write a book, and then you take that new knowledge and experience into the next book. Hopefully, every time, you raise the bar.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always taught that you don't think you are anything special 'cause there's always someone who is more special than you. Just be the best you that you can be.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you've got that performing bug, there's no way that you can tear it out. It's there. When you go out on stage, and that first wave of applause comes, you just go, 'Wow.'
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for that song that's being traded back and forth among millions of people on the Internet, you have to think like a businessperson.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020