Y Quotes
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“You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.”
“You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.”
“You don't make a friend," Jacob said with a scowl. "It's not like they come with directions like you'd find on a box of macaroni and cheese.”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules
“You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.”
“You don't make a photograph just with a camera”
“You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”
“You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.”
“You don't make any money when you're my age. The stars get it all. That's a lie, actually.”
“You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.”
Source: The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
“You don't make art, you find it”
“You don't make friends with friends. You have got to make friends with your enemies.”
“You don't make Him Lord. He's Lord already. You just recognize it.”
“You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.”
“You don't make movies about "men" and "women." You make movies about this guy and this woman and if you get them right, you'll automatically connect with a lot of people.”
“You don't make movies to win awards. You make movies because you want people to see them.”
“You don't make peace only with G-d. You make it with people. Sin isn't global. It's personal. If you do wrong to someone, the only way to fix that is to go to that same person and do right by him.”
Source: The Storyteller
“You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.”
“You don't make pictures for Oscars.”
“You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.”
“You don't make solo albums to have hits.”
“You don't make spending decisions, investment decisions, hiring decisions, or whether-you're-going-to-look-for-a-job decisions when you don't know what's going to happen.”
“You don't make stupid jokes in art.”
“You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.”
“You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.”
“You don't make your character in a crisis, you exhibit it.”
“You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.”
Source: Living the Message: Daily Reflections with Eugene H. Peterson
“You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.”
“You don't manage priorities, you have them.”
Source: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
“You don't market-research a novel; you really are writing it for yourself. It's a hobby, in many ways. The problem becomes what you do when you're confronted by criticism. You just don't listen to it.”
“You don't measure life by receiving awards.”
“You don't measure your maturity by comparing yourself with others. You judge maturity by comparing yourself to Jesus.”
“You don't meditate to experiment with altered states of consciousness or whatever else. You meditate only to perceive by yourself that everything is within us, every atom of the universe, and that we already possess everything we would wish to find outside of ourselves.”
Source: Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love
“You don't meet a lot of people that you really like. I don't anyway.”
“You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film - you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.”
“You don't mess with janitors, first of all, they have like 40 keys, and 1 is to a closet you don't want to be inside of.”
“You don't miss your water
'Till your well runs dry.”
“You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.”
“You don't mow another man's lawn!”
“You don't necessarily go in to talk to the person to try to find some secret key to the lock.”
“You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.”
“You don't necessarily have to do anything once you acknowledge your privilege. You don't have to apologize for it. You need to understand the extent of your privilege, the consequences of your privilege, and remain aware that people who are different from you move through and experience the world in ways you might never know anything about.”
Source: Bad Feminist: Essays
“You don't necessarily have to go a long way in New Zealand to be in some pretty dense and scary bush.”
“You don't necessarily have to go to film school to be a brilliant film maker. If you are a good listener and you study life, and you find that story that is buried within each and every one of us, and you figure out a way to bring that out. And sometimes it doesn't necessarily mean money or winning the lottery.”
“You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.”
Source: Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews
“You don't necessarily live for the moment; you live for hope-what you're going to get, what you're going to say, what you're going to think.”
“You don't necessarily need expensive gear or giant budgets to reach an audience.”
“You don't necessarily need to go to film school to learn that part of it. But what I valued was that it gives you that incubation and time to figure out who you are, what kind of stories you want to tell, and how you want to forge your path.”
“You don't need 30 million people to listen to your podcast. If 10,000 people listen to your podcast, which is not a hard number to achieve, then 10,000 people are listening, and you can build a community, and literally change the world just recording into a microphone.”
“You don't need 70 people in a White House press conference to tell people what happened there. You need a camera and maybe a couple reporters, and that's it.”
“You don't need a blanket of can't do this, that's illegal, that's unfair, that's unjust, all of these can'ts, all these won'ts never helped anybody.”