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“Yes, I am letting my own experience color my answer, which is what experience is for.”
Source: The Hero and the Crown
“Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death?”
“Yes, I am old enough to grow a beard actually. So ner-ner-ner-ner”
“Yes, I am one of those people who feels that most of my work is adaptation of one sort or another. For me, it's a way to jump-start the engine. For example, some people use the technique of basing a character on a friend. They start writing with his or her voice, then at a certain point, the character takes off on his or her own. It probably no longer resembles the model, but it helped the author to get going. I find that's true of form, too. For every play I've written, I know what play I was trying to imitate. That helps me get going.”
“Yes, I am optimistic about the environment. If you assume business is exerting the most negative influence on the environment and also has the possibility to impact it positively, there are a bunch of forces that are impacting business that are fundamentally different from the situation 3 or 4 years ago.”
“Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.”
Source: Youth
“Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.”
“Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.”
“Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad.”
“Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, It is not good for a woman to live alone.”
“Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul.”
“Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor. It's been far too long.”
“Yes, I am very lucky, but I have a little theory about this. I have noticed through experience and observation that providence, nature, God, or what I would call the power of creation seems to favor human beings who accept and love life unconditionally, and I am certainly one who does with all my heart.”
“Yes, I am very prolific.”
“Yes, I am white now,' said Gandalf. 'Indeed I am Saruman, one might almost say, Saruman as he should have been.”
Source: The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings
“Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.”
Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese
“Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well”
“Yes, I believe in God, but I don't perform a daily puja. I don't have any gurus. Ek baat hai,destiny, koi cheez hai.”
“Yes, I believe in guardian angels, because otherwise I must believe that life is a string of death-defying miracles - and I don't believe in miracles.”
“Yes, I believe in school choice. Parents know far better than government bureaucrats what their children need from an education standpoint, and they should be permitted to make that choice.”
“Yes, I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him. Some appear to have it more than others only because they are aware of it more than others are, and the awareness or unawareness of it is what makes each one of them into masters or holds them down to mediocrity.”
Source: The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
“Yes, I believe that the art of winning is through intimidation, and not necessarily do you have to speak about it.”
“Yes, I believe you can be right with God and still not like the way some people behave. Our admonition is to love them in a larger and more comprehensive way because we are all one in Christ Jesus. This kind of love is indeed a Christian virtue!”
“Yes, I can play younger than my age. But I can play characters older than I am, too. I'm not an actor who can just play the kid.”
“Yes, I can talk and think at the same time. Most people can, though I suppose you wouldn't know that from personal experience. Elena (Bitten)”
Source: Bitten
“Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.”
“Yes, I can!
I certainly can!
I can have
A gratitude-flower-heart
That shall remain open
At all hours.”
“Yes, I co-wrote a song on the album called "Good Friend To Me" with Annie Roboff and Bekka Bramlett.”
“Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees!”
Source: Journey to Center of the Earth
“Yes, I definitely plan to direct at some point.”
“Yes, I definitely prefer the daylight population of the playing fields to that which comes there after dark.”
“Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing.”
“Yes, I did bite the head off of a dove. Yes, I did bite the head off of a bat. It's a stupid thing to do, but I did it.”
“Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.”
“Yes, I did have to struggle very hard to get this [the vote on the Iraq war] through, but the reason I did it was because I thought it was the right thing to do. I didn't take this on myself... just because I thought, 'Let's give myself a really hard time for a couple of years!'”
“Yes, I did lock myself in my room for about two years and write some songs and things like that. But I don't feel like I missed out on a whole lot.”
“Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life.”
“Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.”
“Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.”
“Yes, I direct commercials as well. I get these really weird offers and then I have to bid on them and win the job. One offer that I have now, and I've already done this last year for the same company, is for Cash Value Cheese, this cheese out in the midwest. I did two spots for them last year and I'm going to probably do three this year. I also did some for the Utah Transit Authority, which was weird and interesting and they turned out really funny - they actually won an award.”
“Yes, I do agree we need health care reform; however, this bill badly misses the mark. Congress can and must do better for the American people.”
“Yes, I do enjoy walking at night. The world’s more to my liking then, not so loud, not so fast, not so crowded, and a good deal more mysterious.”
Source: Inkheart
“Yes, I do feel the world revolves around me. After all, I am the main character of my own life.”
“Yes, I do like to be in control. I do like everything to be laid out, to know what I'm doing. I'm very impatient. I like things done yesterday, which is probably a fault of mine. I like things to be neat and tidy and organised. I say what I want and show what I want and I keep things private.”
“Yes, I do not like people saying that atheism is based on science, because it's not. It's an alien invasion of science.”
“Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.”
“Yes, I do strive to be someone young women can look up to.”
“Yes, I do talk to my trees. I did say to one 'You'd better smarten yourself up or you'll be gone' and the next year, well, you've never seen such a mass of flowers.”
“Yes, I do touch. I believe that everyone needs that”
“Yes, I don't read books for entertainment.”