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“You can't worry about the rest of the world, never mind the rest of the universe. All you can do is look to your left and your right and try to be kind to whoever is there.”
Source: We Are All Made of Stars
“You can't write an honest novel about race in this country. If you write about how people are really affected by race, it'll be too obvious. Black writers who do literary fiction in this country, all three of them, not the ten thousand who write those bullshit ghetto books with the bright covers, have two choices: they can do precious or they can do pretentious. When you do neither, nobody knows what to do with you. So if you're going to write about race, you have to make sure it's so lyrical and subtle that the reader who doesn't read between the lines won't even know it's about race. You know, a Proustian meditation, all watery and fuzzy, that at the end just leaves you feeling watery and fuzzy."
"Or just find a white writer. White writers can be blunt about race and get all activist because their anger isn't threatening.”
Source: Americanah
“You can't write any form of fiction unless you enjoy reading it. You must be sincere in your approach. It's no good despising the form. So many people think they could earn some money from writing something for which they have no affection. It won't work. The first thing you have to have is belief.”
“You can’t write novels without a touch of paranoia. I’m paranoid as an act of good citizenship, concerned about what the powerful people are up to.”
“You can’t write, yet you learned to hunt, to survive. How?”
I paused with my foot on the threshold. “That’s what happens when you’re responsible for lives other than your own, isn’t it? You do what you have to do.”
He was still sitting on the table, still straddling that inner line between the here and now and wherever he’d had to go in his mind to endure the fight with the Bogge. I met his feral and glowing stare.
“You aren’t what I expected—for a human.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“You can't write, yet you learned to hunt, to survive. How?'
I paused with my foot on the threshold. 'That's what happens when you're responsible for lives other than your own, isn't it? You do what you have to do.'
He was still sitting on the table, still straddling the inner line between the here and now and wherever he'd had to go in his mind to endure the fight with the Bogge. I met his feral and glowing stare.
'You aren't what I expected- for a human,' he said.
I didn't reply. And he didn't say good-bye as I walked out.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all can you condemn an artist pursuing, however humbly and imperfectly, a creative aim. In that interior world where his thought and his emotions go seeking for the experience of imagined adventures, there are no policemen, no law, no pressure of circumstance or dread of opinion to keep him within bounds. Who then is going to say Nay to his temptations if not his conscience?”
Source: Lord Jim (Unabridged Deluxe Edition): A Classic Novel of Guilt and Atonement From the Renowned Author of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, The Secret Agent & Under Western Eyes (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)
“You can take a bad singer and make them sound decent; you couldn't do that in the past... With things like Pro Tools and all the other things you have available; like auto tune, and pitch correction you can make someone who can't sing into someone who can.”
“You can take a book to the beach without worrying about sand getting in its works. You can take it to bed without being nervous about it falling to the floor should you nod off. You can spill coffee on it. You can sit on it. You can put it down on a table, open to the page you're reading, and when you pick it up a few days later it will still be exactly as you left it. You never have to be concerned about plugging a book into an outlet or having its battery die.”
“You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.”
“You can take a cub from the savannah as they have, and raise it like a pet if you like. In a cage, as some do, or running free like Paddy. You can feed it fresh meat so it never learns to hunt and brush its coat so it carries a human smell wherever it goes—but know that what you’ve done is twist something natural into something else. And you can never trust on unnatural thing. - Charles Clutterbuck”
Source: Circling the Sun
“You can take a dog outside, but you can't make it pee”
“You can take a girl out of the mountains, but not the mountains out of the girl.”
Source: Butting Heads With Her Mountain Man
“You can take a good picture of anything. A bad one, too.”
“You can take a guy to a coffee shop, but you can't make him bare his soul.”
Source: The Party Crasher
“You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.”
“You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.”
“You can take a kid out of Rosengård, but you can never take Rosengård out of that kid”
“You can take a little bit of the East and a little bit of the West, and create a formulaic soup in life that works best for you: no one else has to drink it if they don’t like”
Source: Set Free Your Flow: A Centered View
“You can take a look at the enrollment at major institutions of higher learning. It's 65% female, 35% male. One of the reasons is, men don't want to go there anymore.But this is a manifestation... Remember our old buddy James Brown addressing men, said that it's time to shape up or ship out. He said we have got to stop this business of making fun of men who "throw like girls."”
“You can take a picture of New York and one person looking at it will think it looks really depressing, frightening; and someone else will look at it and think of all the fun things you can do in New York. I think songs are kinda like that.”
“You can take a road that gets you to the stars, I can take a road that will see me through.”
“You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out.”
“You can take a substance that works in your system, but then you take this over here that's not banned, and this over here that's not banned, but if you mix them together, you've got a banned substance in your system.”
“You can take a thing when no one’s looking. But defending it, even with all the advantage on your side, is no easy task,” Madoc told her with a laugh. She looked up to find him offering her a hand. “Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to.”
Source: The Wicked King
“You can take All the Drama in your day to day world, put that in a Blender . . . AND . . . I will take of the Drama in mine and put that into the same Blender . . . Out will come a Shot Glass full of your Drama . . . while I will be making Milk Shake After Milk Shake . . . So Deal with It”
“You can take All the Drama in your world, put that in a Blender . . . AND . . . I will take All the Drama in mine and put that into the same Blender . . . Out will come a Shot Glass full of your Drama . . . while I will be making Milk Shake After Milk Shake . . . So Deal with It”
“You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.”
“You can take All the Stresses in your day to day world, put them in a Blender . . . AND . . . I will take My Stresses and put them into that same Blender . . . Out will come a Shot Glass full of your stresses, while I will be making Milk Shake After Milk Shake . . . So Deal with It !”
“You can take an object and simply put anything you want in that object, and I accessed that partly through Freudian ideas.”
“You can take and nail two sticks together like they've never been nailed together before and some fool will buy it.”
Source: Watch My Language
“You can take any line of business and skill and the ones who do it the best are the ones who get the most money for it.”
Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927
“You can take anything if you want it enough.”
“You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.”
“You can take art, you can have a baby, you can have a career.”
“You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.”
“You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.”
Source: The Undiscovered Self
“You can take away my anger, my fear, my fury, even my pain, but I could never live with myself if I’m not the one to bring that demon to justice. You’re all the family I have left, Serwa, and I pledged myself to you when I was a man-child of twenty-one years. Now, as a man of centuries, that responsibility hasn’t changed. If anything, it’s only gotten stronger.”
Source: Fire, Fury, Faith
“You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me - and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!”
“You can take away the money and the fame. I don't look at myself as any of those things.”
“You can take back all the things you give,
But you can't take back the days you live.
Life is to some people who've been on earth
Livin' every single day for what it's worth.
I live life just how I please,
Satisfy one person I know: that's me.”
“You can take better care of your secret than another can.”
Source: The Journals
“You can take care of him," she insisted. This was madness. This was a true example of temporary insanity.
"I can't."
"Why not?" She demanded.
"Umm...I don't...like..." I couldn't say diapers. I had my own baby! "I don't like... black... babies...”
Source: Accidentally on Purpose
“You can take care of yourself, and God helps those who help themselves.”
“You can take charge, kick ass, do whatever you have to do and it's okay. You can blow people up. These are things that are okay for cartoon characters to do.”
“You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.”
“You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.”
“You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.”
“You can take her to any place in the world, she will survive. A woman of faith can handle any situation, because external environments do not determine her survival. She depends upon the Celestial Power of God.”
“You can take her to any place in the world, she will survive. A woman of faith can handle any situation because external environments do not determine her survival. She depends upon the miraculous power of God.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman