- Feeling
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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
- Jealousy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a constant tension between the excitement of new people and security with one person. If you go with excitement, you create chaos; you hurt people. There's jealousy, and it gets very messy. If you have security, it can be boring, and you die inside because of all the opportunities missed.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.
- Nov 07, 2020
I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to direct! I get really jazzed by directing, but directing is not the same kind of personal expression, the same kind of personal intimate expression that writing is. Because when you're directing, you're basically managing, basically getting out of people doing their job, except when you see them going astray.
- Clock
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- Nov 07, 2020
Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was told by my father nine times a day that you were going to get a job the minute you finish your studies.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Depending on what happens with my directing career, I don't think I'll stop writing, even if I crash and burn in movies and TV. I'll go back to plays. Even if I crash and burn there, I'll write a novel. That's the great thing about writing is that you don't have to wait for people to give you permission to do it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don't really get freaked out. I mean certainly, you read about things people did to each other in the pursuit of some mystical or occult goal, and it's horrifying. But that's just human nature.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early days of love sometimes, you will report an ecstatic feeling you have met someone who seems to understand you without you needing to speak.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are pro love, you have to be a little bit disloyal to the romantic feelings that propel you in the early days.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020