- Someone
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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
- Nov 07, 2020
There's never too much you can do.
- Nov 07, 2020
One of the benefits to television is that you're with these characters for years, you know them so well.
- Nov 07, 2020
Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it's a very safe place.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New York City. It was my first real love.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don't have the objects then there are holes in your life. This is why people in Bosnia - if anyone was running back into a burning house, it was to salvage photos.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Hollywood you always feel a bit like a hake. The publicists march people up and down in front of you and they interview you... You feel like the turbot and the sea-bream go by, and you're the hake.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are always working on your worst book and your best book at the same time. The praise does not make you write better, and it shouldn't make you write worse, either.
- Self
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
- Religion
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- Nov 07, 2020