- People
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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
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever dream you have, be sure that it is going to be happen, and then forget about it. Then you have to come back to the present and be there 100 percent.
- Nov 07, 2020
Before the film begins shooting, in your head, you need to be the character. You have to convince yourself somehow.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an actor, you think you know your craft, you know the conflicts in your character, but often you don't.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are seeing something for the first time, one of your first reactions should be fascination.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many ways to approach a character. You have to figure out the similarities between you and the character, build on them, and at the same time, blur the dissimilarities. Since you do it day in and day out, it becomes a process and a part of you.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have skills to pull off even a four-hour film, people will go and watch it.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you go to a show on opening night, or even the second performance, it is at the very beginning of what it will become. By the end of this run, the show will actually be what it is intended to be.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was at Juilliard that I realized that being a singer encompasses so many things that I am interested in. Literature, languages, physics, history, art. You really get to explore so many things.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a young singer, you have to get experience somehow, to try things out and grow as a singer. They way you do that is by going through the ranks and singing at companies like Opera Birmingham. It's a perfect place to foster a career.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one recognizes me. And I hope that I can always go out without being recognized. Maybe that limits you in some way but I like to be able to pull my hair back in a ponytail and get groceries without anyone noticing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We separate problems with the brain into neurological and psychiatric, and it's because it's stigmatised still. Mental illness is still stigmatised. Imagine if we treated people with cancer like that. Just because your personality changes and your behaviour changes, all of a sudden you are put in a different category.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
The true story of how my husband, Stephen, and I exchanged our first 'I love you's' - chronicled in my 2012 memoir 'Brain on Fire' - occurred deep in a hallucinatory psychotic episode outside a crowded Maplewood, NJ, restaurant.
- Privacy
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- Nov 07, 2020