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“You're faced with creation, you're faced with something very mysterious and very mystical, whether it's looking at the ocean or being alone in a forest, or sometimes looking at the stars. There's really something very powerful about nature that's endlessly mysterious and a reminder of our humanity, our mortality, of more existential things that we usually manage to not get involved with very often because of daily activity.”
“You're falling into the trap of believing everything that's in the political handbook, and at the top of the list it says you can't do anything without money. [Donald] Trump has.”
“You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?”
“You're far from this. This story is just another few hundred pages of your mind.”
“You're far more likely to lose the weight and keep it off if you lose slowly, perhaps ½ to 1 pound a week, exercise moderately, and find that replacement for comfort, connection, and control. That's a doable long-term plan.”
“You're fighting a battle of good and evil with your dog pimp! Your only weapon is the shimmy! There is power in the shimmy! Make him fear your shimmy! Now, goddamnit, show me your war shimmy!”
Source: There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell: A Novel of Sewer Pipes, Pageant Queens, and Big Trouble
“You're filled with so much life. Is there any reason why all of us are not full of life?”
“You're financially independent if you have $15,000 coming in and $14,900 going out.”
“You're flying Buzz! No Woody we're falling in style!”
“You're following your track, the story, your only plan, your map for the audience, and all the other stuff is, like, the fun stuff: the costumes, the locations, the set-dressing and the actors. They can all be variable as you like if you stick - however roughly - to the path.”
“You're forced to step into that performer role. I can't just hide behind a synthesizer forever.”
“You're forced to think about what your goals are and you clarify them because you're taking this journey with another person and you need to be open with your partner.”
“You're fortunate when you can afford to be virtuous.”
“You're fourteen years old. You've only had that hair for fourteen years and you want to change it already! How bored are you going to be with it by the time you are thirty? What color will you be up to by then?”
Source: The Complete Fab Confessions of Georgia Nicolson:
“You're freaked out that you're going to be having a child, and once you're looking after your daughter, it's the most beautiful thing in the world.”
“You're free because you don't have to expose yourself, and you can go wild, and let your id completely out of its box, and nobody will see you because you're operating through a surrogate. It's an opportunity to crack open your shell, to melt down yourself, and just let yourself go. It's a form of catharsis for me.”
“You're free to do anything you want with your company. It's more like art. You don't have to follow any norms. It's an expression of how you feel the world should be. When you make a company, that's your little place to make your own little utopia.”
“You're free to join us, but only if you promise not to stare at the new kid." Miles laughs. "Staring is very rude. Didn't anyone ever tell you that?”
Source: The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland
“You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level—but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point.”
“You're free. And freedom is beautiful. And, you know, it'll take time to restore chaos and order - order out of chaos. But we will.”
“You're free. You've taken this burden of being a human being on yourself. You're free.”
“You're from where?" "Lay'en. It's near Salt Lake City." "Spell that for me." "Um, that would be S-A-L-T-" "No, the other one. The city you're from." "Oh. L-A-Y-T-O-N." "Ah-Lay-ton." That's what I said." "No you didn't. You just said, 'Lay'en.'" "So I did. But just go ahead and pronounce 'aluminum' for me, Mr. British Man. How are you going to defend that piece of insanity? Why don't you spell it and count syllables and see if your al-um-in-ium makes sense whatsoever?" He bowed his head. "Touch...”
“You're frozen when your heart's not open.”
“You're full of insecurities in your 20s - most of the time your heart's being broken, you're having a difficult time finding out who the hell you are, and I was trying to do that in the full glare of the public.”
“You're fun to look at," decided Galinda. Boq's face fell. "Fun?" he said. I'd give a lot to achieve fun," Elphaba said. "The best I usually hope for is stirring, and when people say that they're usually referring to digestion-”
Source: The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz
“You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually.”
Source: Paper Towns
“You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos.”
“You're gay, you sell books... you probably shag the books.”
“You're getting angry, you know I can see. You're just jealous, cause you can't be me.”
“You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.”
“You're getting into some kind of shape, cop." Aw, come on, now." Butch grinned. "Don't let that shower we took go to your head." Rhage fired a towel at the male. "Just pointing out your beer gut's gone." It was a Scotch pot. And I don't miss it.”
Source: J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4
“You're getting like an attitude. What you get put through for just wanting something more out of life. Makes you vulnerable. Inside, that tug of desperation, trying not to be excited, maybe this is it, and it's usually freaks and you want to shout I'm not like you.”
Source: The only good thing anyone has ever done: a novel
“You're getting old when you see a girl who looks like someone you used to know, and it turns out to be her daughter.”
“You're getting to be a big boy,' I said desperately, 'it's time you started thinking about your future.' 'I'm thinking about my future,' said Sonny, grimly. 'I think about it all the time.”
“You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books.”
“You're getting well,' Samuel said. 'Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. But the time poultice is no respecter of glories. Everyone gets well if he waits around.”
Source: East of Eden
“You're getting your weird all over me.”
Source: Forever
“You're gifted to do something.”
“You're girls!' he shouted as if the fact had totally eluded him until then.”
“You're giving me two choices, and I'm choosing Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton. I would choose Jesus over Donald Trump, probably. But you're just giving me two choices.”
“You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all about you again. But it's not all about you. Love doesn't work that way.”
“You're going from audition to audition, changing in the backseat, and all that fun stuff that's great to do at one time in your life. That's when the 49-cent taco, as disgusting as it is, really plays into your day. It really helps you out.”
“You're going through college, and you're going to be faced with a lot of things. You're going to face adversity, the main thing is don't quit. For many people it's easy to quit, but don't. That's what separates the winners from the losers, what separates the all-stars from the also-rans.”
“You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.”
“You're going to bat so many times during a season and it's not worth getting mad about. I still get frustrated, but I try not to let the other team know that.”
“You're going to be a great player, kid.”
“You're going to be accused of every high crime and low misdemeanor there is.”
“You're going to be buying your ticket with your heartache, you're gonna be payin' the man with your dues. You're gonna be living alone when you hear that whistle moan, you're gonna be learnin' to live with the blues.”
“You're going to be much less likely to point the finger at somebody and create a huge brouhaha when it wasn't necessary if you had stopped and asked yourself, 'Could I have done things to prevent this situation?'”
“You're going to be unemployed if you really think you just have to sit around and wait for the muse to land on your shoulder.”