I Quotes
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“I have to wonder why so much courage is expected of girls and women in this world. So much daily bravery in the world, and yet...how would we know? It goes unsaid. Imagine the volume, were we to hear the sound of all those voices at once. We have to listen for them. Otherwise we are united only by silence.”
Source: Becoming Unbecoming
“I have to work extra hard because I am dyslexic. People said that I couldn't be an actress, but I'm proving them wrong. Acting has helped me overcome the challenge.”
“I have to work hard and organize myself so that I'm present and not a slacker.”
“I have to work hard and wear pants. I've worked really hard these last years, and since everything is coming together at the same time, I had to move the play back. I'm kind of in love with my theater agent. I'm a true naïve about the theater, a total innocent. He says to me, have you ever been to a rehearsal room? Do you realize you are opening at the Public in New York? You do understand that the audience will be New York theater people?”
“I have to work hard for my family. They don't have a lot.”
“I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk.”
“I have to work hard to not look like a nerd all the time. My friends are the only people I know that don't care about my image. I need to have people who treat me just as Josh, not as Josh the singer.”
“I have to work in England, but here in America you don't have to work. You can sort of enter the profession of being.”
“I have to work very hard to look the way I do. I want the girls out there to know that.”
“I have to work, for my soul.”
“I have to worry if my boyhood is convincing enough to keep me safe. There is no joy in that. Only fear.”
Source: The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
“I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.”
“I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.”
“I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off.”
“I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.”
“I have to write. I don't know what else to do. The others are asleep now, but it isn't dark. I'm on watch because I couldn't sleep if I tried. I'm jittery and crazed. I can't cry. I want to get up and just urn and run... Run away from everything. But there isn't any away.
I have to write. There's nothing familiar left to me but the writing. God is Change. I hate God. I have to write.”
Source: Parable of the Sower
“I have to write.
I have to write and re-write myself in all that's hidden within me.
The unspoken heart is the place I need to travel to,
to rediscover the language that I had lost.
I felt and hoped myself empty in dreams that never belonged to me.
So how can I be with myself?
My heart struggled itself out of my body, lying shattered in pieces all over the places I've never been to and won't ever be, while my head is the only thing remaining, dethinking itself in all that hadn't been and won't ever be.”
Source: Within the event horizon: poetry & prose
“I have to write the story I want to write. I never wrote them with a focus group of 8-year-olds in mind. I have to continue telling the story the way I want to tell it.”
“I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, A picture book is the essence of an experience.”
“I have to.” Zlo retorted “It's part of my job.” job he says...Nicka just frowned at Zlo making sure he knew that none of this was okay”
Source: JACQUERIE. Volume II
“I have to. I've been fighting it all night. I'm going to lose. My battle is as futile as a woman feeling the first pangs of labor and deciding it's an inconvenient time to give birth. Nature wins out. It always does.”
Source: Thirteen: A Novel
“I have told everybody that what we are doing is for the love of God and works of love are always to accept and respect others.”
“I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told.”
Source: Education of a Wandering Man
“I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that.”
Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE
“I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext, the bridge between the mind of the painter and the mind of the spectator.”
“I have told myself you are not allowed to hurt me anymore. That's what hurts the most.”
“I have told our senior executives that I will slaughter holy cows if it benefits the company's long-term success. When we asked ourselves whether Formula 1 still matched the concept of a sustainable company, the clear answer was no.”
“I have told somebody in court that 'I understand yours is the most important case in the world, and I'm trying to treat it as the most important case in the world, but five minutes from now I'm going to be dealing with the next person's most important case in the world.' For every litigant, theirs is the most important case.”
“I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining of two people. What is one man's and one woman's love and desire, against the history of two worlds, the great revolutions of our lifetimes, the hope, the unending cruelty of our species? A little thing. But a key is a little thing, next to the door it opens. If you lose the key, the door may never be unlocked. It is in our bodies that we lose or begin our freedom, in our bodies that we accept or end our slavery. So I wrote this book for my friend, with whom I have lived and will die free.”
“I have told you,” Duncan said. “Until my memory returns, I can’t ask for Amber’s hand.”
“But you can take the rest of her, is that it?”
Duncan’s face darkened.
“The people of the keep are whispering,” Erik said. “Soon they will be talking openly about a foolish maid who lies with a man who has no intention of—”
“She has not—” Duncan began.
“Leave off,” Erik snarled. “It will come as surely as sparks fly upward! The passion between the two of you is strong enough to taste. I’ve seen nothing like it in my life.”
Silence was Duncan’s only response.
“Do you deny this?” Erik challenged.
Duncan closed his eyes. “No.”
Erik looked at Amber. “I needn’t ask you about your feelings. You look like a gem lit from within... You burn.”
“Is that such a terrible thing?” she asked painfully. “Should I be ashamed that I have finally found what every other woman takes for granted?”
“Lust,” Erik said bluntly.
“Nay! The profound pleasure of touching someone and not feeling pain.”
Shocked, Duncan looked at Amber. He started to ask what she meant, but she was talking again, her words urgent, driven by the tension that vibrated through her.
“Passion is part of it,” Amber said. “But only part. There is peace as well. There is laughter. There is...joy.”“
There is also prophecy,” Erik shot back. “Do you remember it?”
FORBIDDEN / 147”
Source: Forbidden
“I have told you I was of sceptical habit; but though I understood little or nothing, I began to dread, vainly proposing to myself the iterated dogmas of science that all life is material, and that in the system of things there is no undiscovered land, even beyond the remotest stars, where the supernatural can find a footing. Yet there struck in on this the thought that matter is as really awful and unknown as spirit, that science itself but dallies on the threshold, scarcely gaining more than a glimpse of the wonders of the inner place.”
Source: The Three Impostors
“I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and more attempting. In like manner I made the most of my enjoyment s: and through I do not cast my cares away, I pack them in as little compass as I can, and carry them as conveniently as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.”
“I have Tom Ford, Gucci, Saint Laurent, McQueen, and odd pieces that Ive just acquired because I happened to have come across them and felt they have some historical resonance.”
“I have tonight begun reading a stupid, shitty book by Kerouac called Big Sur, and I would give a ball to wake up tomorrow on some empty ridge with a herd of beatniks grazing in the clearing about 200 yards below the house. And then to squat with the big boomer and feel it on my shoulder with the smell of grease and powder and, later, a little blood.”
Source: The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
“I have tons of fans in Canada. I've sold hundreds of thousands of books there.”
“I have tons of friends in the heavy-metal music world, and just going to see them inspires me.”
“I have tons of jewelry. I like to wear a lot of it”
“I have tons of jokes with moments in them over the years in stand-up that don't get a laugh but I love them so they stay.”
“I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.”
“I have tons of stuff that, you know, seems like it's a well-constructed sentence but it is not how people talk, it's how people write. So that's why I think it's sometimes easier for me to write for actors 'cause I know what's frustrating about, you know, sentences that come out just perfect. Well, who talks like that? And who of us don't overlap each other? Except on the radio, hopefully.”
“I have tons of sunglasses. My husband won't let me buy another pair because I lose them all the time.”
“I have tons of tunes, maybe 30 tunes that I still think are great, and only because some jerk at a record company didn't think it was great, it's not out there.”
“I have too great a soul to die like a criminal.”
Source: Right Or Wrong, God Judge Me: The Writings of John Wilkes Booth
“I have too grieved a heart
To take a tedious leave. Thus losers part.”
Source: The Merchant of Venice
“I have too many clothes, I have too many options.”
“I have too many control issues, so it just is not good for me to go and watch a film, too soon after I make it.”
“I have too many credit cards. You know what happened? Someone stole one and I didn't notice. I noticed when I got that bill. Whoa! It was so much less! I'm letting him keep it. I'm saving money!”
“I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.”
“I have too many flaws to be perfect. But i have too many blessings to be ungrateful.”
“I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I'd like to use my time more carefully.”