- 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 Nov 07, 2020
- First Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are born in 1564, your dislocation from your parents' experience is very profound. You are the first generation who will have had all your religious experience in English, the first to have a countryman circumnavigate the globe. All the power and economic structures of the world are changing around you.
- Great Advantage
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as you make some films that people like, you'll be sent material, and that can come from anywhere.
- Song
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- Nov 07, 2020
But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can't expect to be better than everybody else if you're doing the same thing as everybody else.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody wants to be a star right now, to be heard, to have a voice, so you have to give the confidence for people to have that ability - and give them the wardrobe to become a star.
- Nov 07, 2020
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
- True
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that's true to some degree.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020