- Believe
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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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can talk about anything if you go about it the right way, which is never malicious.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
So long as you tell a story that falls within the fairly generous boundaries of the suspense novel, you're free to make the novel as good as you can. You're allowed to challenge the reader. You can experiment with voice and style.
- Nov 07, 2020
Kids today know way more than you think they do, with the Internet and 500 TV channels.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't mess around with young readers - you have to cut straight to the heart of the story. The character can be complex, the plot can have some surprises, but the emotions have to be clear.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
You start creating art through the people that are looking at you, trying to route it through their sensibilities or their eyes, and then it's not you anymore.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have vivid memories of junior high school. I didn't quite know how to deal with kids and make friends and all of that. If you talked to people who knew me at the time, they'd think I was a popular kid in school. But boy, I didn't feel that.
- Chord
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are certain choices you make as a songwriter, based on vowel sounds and melody and chord changes.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had a perfectly good drummer who he had an argument with. So one day, on a Tuesday, my father came in with a cheap pawn shop set of drums and said, 'Put your foot here, and you kick there, and you play this, and this is the high hat.' And Friday night, I was playing in a honky-tonk.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have 435 people who are opinionated... sometimes agreeing on things is difficult.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can hear some artists, hear five of their albums and still have no idea who they are. But if you've heard most of what I've recorded, you know me. You go from 'Honesty' to 'Going Through Hell' - you can listen to the hits, and they pretty much reflect who I am. 'Take a Back Road' is the same thing.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told people in 1985 that in 25 years they would have computers in their kitchen, it would have made no sense to them.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more I'm dedicated to this work, the more I'm able to satisfy my deep need to create. And that's a pretty good thing. If you take half-decent care of yourself, that can propel you on into productive later years.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're younger, love is this magic thing where the heavens open up. You live 40 years past that, you realize sometimes the heavens close down.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020