- Attention
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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
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
A big part of becoming a funny person was a major defense mechanism. Onstage, especially as a woman, I've had to be really tough. The second you show a crack, the audience can literally leave.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who's been putting these stumbling blocks, these brass cobblestones, outside the houses Jews were taken away from. It's somewhat controversial and has met some resistance.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sociology is really in trouble as a field. I can tell you, because I've known young people who have wanted to go into it, and they have been uniformly advised, if you are a free thinker, stay away from sociology.
- Bullying
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm super grateful that there wasn't social media when I was a kid, but that sort of self-doubt crept in at a young age. It's bullying. It's the comments here and there, and maybe somebody says something to you that they don't even mean to be a mean-spirited comment, but they'll just kind of say it to you in passing.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
They just expected it to you know... Paul, Steve and I could have hired our own publicist, if we wanted to, but I kind of liked the way it was more of a cult thing and those that liked it, liked it, you know what I mean?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, people come from cultures all around the world. Many of those cultures, you know, are not terribly successful. You can tell because you go to the countries and they're doing really poorly, and a lot of why they're doing poorly is because of the outlook, mind-set, and behavior of the people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the problems we have in our criminal-justice system, you know, the problem of over-incarceration, the problem of prosecutorial abuse, the problem of just this sort of mass crop of people, of plea bargains, they all have to do with the system being overloaded. If crime was lower, many of the problems would go away.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then turning around and playing someone sweet. Films give you this opportunity.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prefer working on films. I like the variety. There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then playing someone sweet for the next two. Films give you this opportunity.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather have a part where you walk into a room and you leave. That's perfect for me.
- Fresh Air
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020