- Delicate Balance
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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
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won't feel bored.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's taking place during stress is actually much simpler than a transaction between stressful life events and you. There aren't two parties involved in stress. There is only one - your own mind.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To believe that your husband, wife, parents, kids, boss, job, bank account, or body is even partly responsible for your emotions, to think that there are bullets 'out there' that you have to contend with, that there are stressful life events to overcome, is to miss something vital.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
The less you think counterfactually, the less you experience stress. Stress, in this light, isn't a bad thing. It's simply a warning system telling you that your mind has lost touch with what's real.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.
- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
You and the character just become the same person in a way. There isn't really a character; it's just you creating this illusion.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our impulse as people is to try to control; as an actor, you have to give up that control.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have had the opportunity to work with Andy Lincoln a lot. He's got a remarkable process. He just has these ways of sinking into the scene and into character that are very physical. He'll make these sounds and these grunts and these moans... I don't know what it is that he's channeling! It lets you know it's okay for you to do that, too.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
You want to go into scenes thinking not that you're the good guy or the bad guy, but that you've got a job to do. And I'm not talking about as an actor; I'm talking about as the character.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest.
- Chop
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is probably an asset that my wife hates, where you compartmentalize. Most times, I think it's an asset, where you can just sort of feel like you chop off one part of your brain to do the next thing that you've got to do.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020