- Night
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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
- Certain Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to get my kids - in particular, my step-daughter Mary, who's 12 - to recommend music to me. You reach a certain age and realise you haven't kept up, but I don't want to fall behind.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you're on a set it can be very tedious and slow. It's just not as big as when you see it on film.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Alien is gross, scary. There is something in a human being that looks at them and sees it as a cockroach. You can never feel nurturing towards the cockroach.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can go anywhere in the world, and people's faces light up when they put delicious food in their mouths.
- Never Give Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a team leader, I have always told my team to never give up. Analyse why you failed so that, next time, you know what should not be done.
- Nov 07, 2020
The success or failing in one competition doesn't define you, and that is one thing that any sports would teach you.
- Maturity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do you know there were two pilots made for 'Have I Got News For You' before the series started two decades ago: one hosted by Angus Deayton and one hosted by me. But I was told that they couldn't have a woman in charge of the news.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you play-act for a living, it's better not to carry on doing it when you get home.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Dhalgren' is the kind of book in which you can look for pretty much anything you want. I tried to put as much into it as I could at the time.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020