- Love
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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
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
You realise fame is something that if you court it too much or if you indulge in it too much, it will have a negative effect ultimately on your mental health and self esteem, because fame is ultimately about achieving positive self esteem through external factors, and that's a losing game, I would say.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of people, when they start to become famous, they don't necessarily have the mental equipment to deal with it yet, so they try to keep it at arm's length and try to avoid it, which is fine for a while, but you can't keep pursuing a career in acting and that remain your attitude towards fame and recognition.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing that I'm continually reminded of is just to always find something that will challenge you in a new way, a very new way, and that's not the easiest of roads, but it's the most exciting.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The publisher has told - you know, if these editors, Andres Martinez and Nick Goldberg, were the least bit honest about this, they would tell you the publisher has told them he wants the editorial page to be conservative.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of progressing in acting is turning down work, and that's hard; it's very, very hard to do. And I think you have to do that so as not to undermine your own sense of value.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you enjoy colour and vibrancy, wear whatever you like.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Vietnam War was causing people to get drafted; I had received a deferment to finish my undergraduate education, and in order to continue to get a deferment, you had to go to graduate school.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
So this guy, Jeff Johnson, who is an accountant who cares nothing at all about a free press and cares nothing about journalism, he's a right winger who supported the war, you know, who two years ago told people he couldn't stand a word that I wrote.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can almost liken 'Bad Samaritan' to 'Funny Games' because it's that theme of horror just down the street in your neighborhood.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you work in a creative environment, people get protective about their ideas. Sometimes it's justified; sometimes it's about ego.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's true that if you advise politicians on economic policy in the U.S. today, you spend your time in a cross between inquiry and combat. You are always on the periphery of harsh partisan warfare that has nothing to do with substance.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is an incredibly gratifying, creative experience when you're doing it. But in the off-season, you want to scratch that itch, and writing has become that to me. It's a really pure form of creativity. It's good for my mental health in the same way reading books is good for me. It makes the day brighter.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are actors who do various different shades of a similar character, which is fine. But I prefer the Cillian Murphy school of doing something that takes you so far outside yourself that it's an incredible challenge and adventure.
- Nov 07, 2020
Success lasts only three seconds. After that, you're the same as you were before you had it.
- Attack
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are attached to what you attack.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020