- Art
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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
- Nov 07, 2020
Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the calf.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you sing a song the way I sing it, you have to use your whole body. It's almost like working out.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you really love acting, you'll want to act. That's what I did. You don't look for any payday because the likelihood of a payday is slim to none.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell the truth, even if you swim the creek.
- Nov 07, 2020
You play your character and it isn't right to step out of it. You have to stay in that character.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and help them say what they mean.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to tell you this: you cannot get the robe of hypocrisy on you so thick that the sharp eye of childhood will not see through every veil.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you go home, fill the house with joy so that the light of it will stream out the windows and doors and illuminate even the darkness. It is just as easy that way as any in the world.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make what money it wants, take the taxes out, and give the balance to us?
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in living for this world - that's my doctrine - to make everybody happy that you can.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure out that when you title a memoir of your parents 'Them,' you're performing an act of distancing.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost the first thing you see after entering the Houdini exhibition at the Jewish Museum is a large-screen film of Harry Houdini hanging by his ankles upside-down from a tall building, high over a sea of men in fedoras, and thrashing his way out of a straitjacket.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
You want to be paid. It is your job. It is like anyone else turning up at an office.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020