- Addiction
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've at times in my past been so unhappy, and thought, like, 'I would give anything for this not to be happening.' And, you know, as people say, time passes, and then you think, 'I'm kind of glad that happened to me.'
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if you're charming enough, you can get away with anything.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the time, nobody knew what it was. It had no name. When everything else is out of your control, you can control your eating. You end up cutting a lot of things off. Nothing reaches you. I was very happy then - that was the oddity.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a producer, you're there from the inception of the concept to the delivery of it. It just takes so much energy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people don't think of Los Angeles as a theatre town, and that you have to go to New York to be in theatre, and it's really not true.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at the history of presidential memorials, it takes a long time to get them done.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write about the men you want to read about but don't necessarily want to be married to.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm interested in female friendships and family relationships. So I don't write the traditional romance, where you just have the hero and the heroine's love story. I like intertwining relationships.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
The program of A.A., as written by Bill Wilson and Dr. Smith, only has one purpose: to get you sober. That's it. To make you a better person, forget it. That was one of the things he came to understand in those years of trial and error. It has to be about only one thing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get a lot of letters from introverts asking how they can meet people. The key is to make sure that you are doing things you enjoy.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about what people think of you. Whereas an introvert might not feel any of those things at all, they simply have the preference to be in a quieter setting.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020