- 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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It sustained me... I can't tell you how much their support meant to me when I was leaving and coming back and even while I was gone, there was a part of me that knew people were pulling for me.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can read the world as a construct, you can ask questions of the construct, and you can suggest ways to change the construct.
- Legend
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If everybody is dead around you, how you can keep surviving. I went to the bookstore and found psychiatry books about survivors from the Holocaust.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rhythmical unit of the syllable is at the back of all of it - the word, the phrase, the sentence, the syntax, the paragraph, and the way the heart moves when you read it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you fall in love with a book, something especially interesting and exciting is happening because of the way language works on us as human beings. And I love language.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What are we doing in the world that we are denying people the right to an open education? And we are denying it by making education something you have to pay for so drastically. How are people supposed to afford this?
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
You never know what you're going to end up with when you sit down to write something. At the end, if it holds, it can do this multifarious thing - which is to open things rather than close them, to make them bigger rather than smaller, to cross those divides which we live every day of our lives.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you quiet your mind, you can enter a world of clarity, peace and understanding.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as it is fire's nature to burn, it is meditation's nature to heal, to bring peace and uplift you beyond your worldly environment and transport you to a higher plane.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once, John and I were coming form a concert that he had played, and it was late in the morning. We heard a couple leaving, and the lady said, oh, I have to hurry home. I'm going to church tomorrow. And her friends said, church? You've already been to church.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have got to stress the freedom of music to really branch out and be universal.
- Amazing
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- Nov 07, 2020