- Life
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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
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to make a film, you have to operate on many different levels, making all these different forms of expression converse, and so I just followed that intuition.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can you repress Rachel McAdams? She's so full of life.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether you're dealing with your allies in Europe or you're dealing with a resurgent Russia, whether you're dealing with Iran or North Korea, you have to use the whole panoply of national tools of power to deal with the challenges the world faces.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although my values and my morals are old-school, you have to kind of key into the landscape of social media and how the world is progressing. I'd be a fool to sit there and go, 'Yeah, let's use the telephone to telemarket myself'... Social media is something that I definitely have to tap into, to another demographic.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been working since I was 20, and I'm 38. I actually once averaged out what I had made over my professional life. I think I could have made that much as a waiter or an insurance salesman. You know, I spent so many years in my 20's making $10,000 a year.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
The business of being told to earn a dollar, that no one is going to give you anything - that was kind of my mantra throughout my childhood, and now it's in my adult life. I find that people really tend to relate to the immigrant father, whether he be Italian, Greek, Spanish or whatever.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's fun to have money, but the more money I get, the less interesting it becomes. If you don't have very much, you have to think about it. If you are starving, you become interested in food. If you are struggling to pay the bills, money becomes tragically important.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who wants a life of ease? And who wants a life in the office that you hate, and who wants to play golf?
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.
- They Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every heckler is unique because they say something, and you react to what they say or what they're wearing or who they're with, so every response to a heckle is unique.
- Gauge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like Las Vegas because it kind of gives me a chance to gauge my material in front of a very diverse group of people. There are a lot of different people in the audience, and you can kind of get a barometer for how your material plays throughout the country.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020