- Good
- |
- 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
- Happy
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the page, it's a garden shed. And then you just try to make it the best shed you can.
- Family Member
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people have a lot of things going on in their life. You'll be walking past ten people in the middle of the day and not even notice, but someone might have a family member that died, or someone might be going through a hard time. Sometimes you're the only person that someone might see that lifts them up.
- Hair
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.
- Fight
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It's an incredible feeling, just to know that you have MMA fans that are behind you and want to know when your next fight will be.
- Creativity
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I've always thought it was important not to attach too much superstition to the space where you're writing, because once you get into the mindset that you can only do it a certain way in a certain place, your creativity can get blocked.
- Love
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I love writing on trains. The joy of being a writer is it's all in your head; you don't need materials apart from the laptop. It's like taking your work home with you, so you can feel grounded in your own insane writerly realities wherever you are.
- Expects
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The UFC expects you to perform at your very best. If you're barely training, if you're spending the majority of your time on school, it's impossible to be at your best.
- Nov 07, 2020
People can say what they want. But you can silence a lot of people when you go out there and win.
- Life
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
- Look
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I've been compared to a lot of redheads. Here's the thing though: you can look nothing like somebody, but if you both have red hair, all of a sudden people think you look exactly the same.
- Like
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their reaction, or feel them, whether they're with you.
- Know
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It's always a help when you have worked with someone as you've got to know them a bit already.
- Home
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Location work has its charms, and can seem glamorous on the outside, but I think living at home and having the stability of a home life once you've finished work is very underrated!
- Every
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a child, and you're on Broadway, you automatically know every other child in a production.
- Like
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020