- 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
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The home of Rugby Union is in Twickenham - just outside London in the suburbs, where I live. I'm mad for it. The trouble with being an actor and being in the theater is that you always miss the games.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memory is the thing you forget with.
- Strong
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often you get wonderful singers who maybe aren't as strong as actors, or you get wonderful actors who can't sing very well.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you compromise, and then you succeed, that's another kind of feeling. But if you compromise and fail, it's two failures at least.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're bi-racial, in the town I was in, in Maine, people kept asking, 'What are you?' It was like I wasn't even human.
- Nov 07, 2020
I had been in a professional boys' choir, and as a boy soprano, you're aware that your voice has an expiration date.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I quickly learned that as a fiction writer, you need the sort of details a historian or a biographer would find extraneous or useful to provide context via a footnote.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm identified as a fiction writer at parties, the question comes pretty quickly. 'Did you go to school for it?' someone asks. 'Yes,' I say. 'Where?' they ask, because I don't usually offer it. 'I went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop,' I say.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're writing historical fiction, you have to think a little farther into the situation: what the average social interactions were, what was acceptable behavior. What did people think was fun, what did they find unhappy, and why?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The qualities that make parties such a nightmare for people - and also so pleasurable - make them incredibly important inside of fiction. There's a chaos agent quality to them: You just don't know who's going to be there or why. You could run into an old enemy, an old friend, an old friend who's become an enemy.
- Blue
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- Nov 07, 2020
The beauty of Maine is such that you can't really see it clearly while you live there. But now that I've moved away, with each return it all becomes almost hallucinatory: the dark blue water, the rocky coast with occasional flashes of white sand, the jasper stone beaches along the coast, the pine and fir forests somehow vivid in their stillness.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is no single way to train, or do anything well. You have to keep thinking, keep doing things.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020