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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

Never
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Nov 07, 2020

I've never seen a player that can dominate a game the way LeBron James can. He don't always have to score. He makes plays for other guys. But when the game is on the line, and you need a shot to be made, he's going to make that play.

Nov 07, 2020

You know what I think happened? After 'Rocky,' I was almost set up in the eyes of the media to make a flop.

Nov 07, 2020

There are only a couple characters and people in the world where, in history, where you can go anywhere in the world and say that character or person, that name, that song, and everyone knows what it is. Mickey Mouse is one, Disney, in general. In terms of gaming, Super Mario, he's everywhere.

Nov 07, 2020

I always think, medically... you really have to be your advocate. You have to be able to back up everything that you're feeling with some information and protect yourself through the world of hospitals and doctors' offices, so the more information the better.

Want
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Nov 07, 2020

If you've got a verse with a lot of rhythm, you want to pair it with something that doesn't.

Nov 07, 2020

You can't sustain a high level of intense activity with thousands of people forever. It has to be for a specific objective.

Nov 07, 2020

You spend so much time writing a character the way I did with Buddy Baker and then Green Arrow that you start to care about them. And you almost think of them as people, you know?

Nov 07, 2020

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

I've been treated really well for 'Stick It.' There was this cop and he pulled me over and he was like, 'Oh my God, you're in 'Stick It.' I said, 'Yes. Yes. You're the last person I would think would be pumped up by this movie'. He let me go, so that was nice.

Never
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Nov 07, 2020

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

Nov 07, 2020

I think the moment you try to make something for kids, you are making something really cruddy that even kids don't want to watch most of the time.

Nov 07, 2020

I look at art as a container. You can't get inside it, so you have to ask all of these questions.

Nov 07, 2020

That's how a lot of Tame Impala songs start out - as ideas for songs I could potentially give to someone else. I think of them with a different persona in mind; it's just a subconscious way of not being bound by what you think you are as an artist.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

When you are doing a film about real people, you don't have a lot of manoeuvrability when it comes to how much you can add by way of imagination. You have to replicate what they were like. What you can add to it is your version of it.

Nov 07, 2020

I prefer to work with mystery, but that doesn't work well in an academic environment. They want you to analyze what you're doing, which is toxic to the creative process for people like me.

World
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Nov 07, 2020

What's nice about what we have is when you enter the set, the world of film, it becomes this real cocoon, very different from all the publicity. That's the fun part.

Nov 07, 2020

When you have a very hot single there is no reason why it can't drive album sales. People fall off and come back on. I'm looking forward to coming back on with a vengeance.

Deficiency
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Nov 07, 2020

Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away.

Nov 07, 2020

Big sisters and brothers... I am telling you, it never changes.

Nov 07, 2020

To pursue anything, you've got to have fun with it and to just never give up on it.

Some entries trace how writers describe characters who feel more alive than the people around them, while others explore the quiet unease of being tracked and observed in everyday life. Pair this page with Life Quotes or Love Quotes for more reflective reading.

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