- Me
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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
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's much easier to gain control over a mass population when you pit them against each other.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone has made themselves into a commodity with Facebook, Twitter - with all of these things, you're commodifying your life every time you post an Instagram picture.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
In film, there's this kind of constant fear that you're going to be doing too much. That may be an unfounded fear because I love sizable performances on film, especially when they're by performers who push the boundaries of what people deem the right kind of size.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're going to be an entertainer, entertain thoroughly. If you're going to make a scary movie, scare people well.
- Demons
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't set out to make a scary movie and then flinch every time you're supposed to scare somebody because you're afraid of being MPAA or you're afraid of your own demons or whatever.
- Grief
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- Nov 07, 2020
When someone dies instantly, then I think the well of grief and disbelief all mixed in with it is unfathomable. And when murder is involved, that just takes it into a whole new place. There is an extra dimension you just can't compute or deal with.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always fascinated by the 'who would you like to work with' question. I've never really had an answer; it only really comes as you work with them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're stuck with being yourself, so the important thing is to find people who like that.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
The jellyfish doesn't actively move anywhere - it's just moved with the tides. Is that what man is? Man's just the jellyfish: stuff happens to you, and you get twisted in different directions.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think life's a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tide's just gently helping you along.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
She's leaving when the president has one of the highest approval ratings on record. From here, it can only go down. And when it does, you know who they're going to blame. They're gonna blame Andy Card!
- Magazine
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- Nov 07, 2020
You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020