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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
- Good Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes it is a good thing to hear what kids have to tell you. Kids just tell the truth.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Filming is quite exciting because every day is different, but it can involve long hours standing around in chilly locations. Theatre is a very different challenge because every night you're striving to keep it fresh, even though you might have been performing the same play for months.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That's what we need to change.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bravest thing I've ever done is fly to New York. I'm simply terrified of aeroplanes - I am the woman you see weeping at the airport.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I don't think I learned how to write at Oxford. I did not go to any creative writing classes or anything.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People question what I thought of Oxford. Students used to talk about the 'Oxford bubble' because the place can make you feel cut off from the rest of the world. I would forget there were places like London that were not centred round libraries and essays.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't get the point in a lot of biopics, they're boring. You know what's gonna happen. You're just watching actors show off.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020