- Mirror
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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
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't take a kid from north Alabama and growing up in church - some of that is just gonna seep out.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you.
- Hide
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the biggest part of going to church. You just learn how to hide your bad in front of people.
- Feature Films
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often times people complain about the lack of time in television, but I have to say, you don't have any more time to film in feature films then you do in television. It's just a question of how many scenes you'll be doing in the course of a day.
- Comfortable
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's all about being comfortable, forgetting there's a microphone in front of you.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't worry about the room being messy! Everything can't be perfect - you have to let some things go, and it's better to actually sit down on the floor with your child than spend time worrying about having a perfect house.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember what I was like as a teenager, with an enormous amount of energy and hormones. You have to be able to release it, and dancing is really an innocent way.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a healthy amount of self-doubt and criticism with most people that make music. You find your areas that are your best. Onstage, I am good. But talking to someone in the grocery store? Forget about it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've worked with producers who have told me to lose weight, and I'm not overweight, but they want you to look strange, anorexic, horrible. It's odd. It's like they are exerting a power over women, that they want them to look really frail.
- Civil Rights Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020