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“You can make a film with a phone and a computer if you want, if you have the time. So it's a world that is saturated with films and all kind of stuff, so it's such a blessing to be able to make a film and people care, and even if they say that it's a bad idea, at least they care and they're talking about it.”
“You can make a fresh start with your final breath.”
Source: Poems, 1913-1956
“You can make a global film, which affects so many countries and affects sort of this worldwide epidemic, but it has, zombies are great metaphors for the times we live in today and that's what I always find fascinating about them, but then it's like the walking dead, you know, the unconscious, and the metaphors for them are just really something I was inspired by.”
“You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying.”
“You can make a good living while serving a greater good.”
“You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch.”
“You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can't make a living.”
“You can make a little girl into anything if you say the right words. Take her apart until all that’s left is her red, red heart thumping against the world. Stitch her up again real good. Now, maybe you get a woman. If you’re lucky. If that’s what you were after. Just as easy to end up with a blackbird or a circus bear or a coyote. Or a parrot, just saying what’s said to you, doing what’s done to you, copying until it comes so natural that even when you’re all alone you keep cawing hello pretty bird at the dark.”
Source: Six-Gun Snow White
“You can make a little thing feel like a big thing. To me, it's all tone. Tone is the most important thing in the world. Then character, then story, or something like that.”
“You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.”
“You can make a lot of mistakes in just one lifetime. (I'll Be Waiting)”
Source: The Simple Art of Murder
“You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.”
“You can make a lot of money. You can rule kingdoms or run huge businesses or control vast terrain. But if you're just doing it for yourself, you're not really a success.”
Source: Unlimited Power a Black Choice
“You can make a lot of speeches, but the real thing is when you dig a hole, plant a tree, give it water, and make it survive. That's what makes the difference”
“You can make a movie about anything, as long as it has a hook to hang the advertising on.”
“You can make a movie that's more focused on the jokes, but Young Adult was not that kind of movie.”
“You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.”
“You can make a positive impact on society and the environment without sacrificing returns.”
“You can make a positive impact on the world when you maintain your equanimity, resilience, recovery, and renewal as strong and positive.”
Source: Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
“You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it”
“You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?”
“You can make a stack high enough to reach the moon and back, and only then will you have used your 100 billion hamburgers. This is terrifying news to cows.”
“You can make a successful run for political office in this country without an especially thick résumé, any exceptional talent for expressing yourself, a noteworthy education or, for that matter, a basic grasp of science.
But you better have religion. You better be ready to profess your faith in and fealty to God — the Judeo-Christian one, of course. And you better be convincing. A dust-up last week in the 2014 race for a United States Senate seat from Arkansas provided a sad reminder of this, showing once again that our ballyhooed separation of church and state is less canyon than itty-bitty crack.”
“You can make a thousand promises to yourself that you'll take that same fantastic love and give it to someone else, but the moment you see that person with someone else, it's like a gut full of razorblades. It never gets easier. And it shouldn't, really.”
“You can make a very heavy and kind of dangerous 3-way shot glass out of a bowling ball.”
“You can make a vessel from any type of clay,but how it will come out depends on the master”
“You can make all the birth plans in the world, but at the end of the day - go with the flow.”
“You can make all the changes to the island of the tonal you want, you can take excursions into the nagual, but to push yourself into the reordering process is absolutely foolish.”
“You can make all the excuses you want, but if you're not mentally tough and you're not prepared to play every night, you're not going to win.”
“You can make all your dreams come true.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“You can make almost anything a learning or positive experience. I think I offer a good example of how to make the most out of what life gives you and how to keep moving on.”
“You can make an appointment with a bad doctor only on a stretcher.”
“You can make an argument that Bill O'Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill's kind of unpredictable. Somebody might say that he would have been comfortable in the Democratic Party of Scoop Jackson.”
“You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.”
Source: The Mask of Apollo
“You can make an editorial comment about the play while it's going on. You don't have to be bogged down by the details because the camera is showing the groundball to short.”
“You can make an idea spread for good but you can also make an idea spread for bad and the power to make an idea spread, memetics, you know which now people talk about memes.”
“You can make an interesting character in a small portion of a movie, for a character that doesn't have that much on the page, if you just find the contradictions. That's something that I try to bring to my performances.”
“You CAN make an omelette without breaking eggs. It's just a really bad omelette.”
“You can make an oyster surrender its pearl,” Clara says. “All you need is persistence and a sharp enough knife.”
Source: The Fisherman
“You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.”
Source: Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation
“You can make any meal into a sandwich, and any sandwich into a meal.”
“You can make any promises as long as you are not going to be there to fulfill them.”
Source: Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“You can make anything by writing.”
“You can make anything happen if you put your mind to it.”
Source: Invent It, Sell It, Bank It!: Make Your Million-Dollar Idea into a Reality
“You can make anything into a play for the simple reason that the human mind is one of the best writers in the business. So, if you've got a writer who's clever enough to give you enough clues, you will fill out every blank spot in a play, every single one.”
“You can make anything into a special occasion and dress up for it”
“You can make anything out of anything.”
“You can make as many films as you like, but if nobody wants to put them on, whats the point?”
“You can make as many NAPS as you like, but unless they have clean language in the narration then you could well be sabotaging your own dreams!”
Source: NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs
“You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.”