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“You had to be able to lift yourself outside of the time stream - and that essentially became what is called the yoga of time travel.”
“You had to be an over-the-top, demanding, dramatic figure in order to progress as a woman in Europe over the last few hundred years. Now people say, "You're being such a prima donna," meaning you're being hard to deal with or crazy. It's a bit sexist.”
“You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.”
“You had to be fundamentally stupid, I sometimes thought, to become the sort of academic specialist that hiring committees liked. You had to be thick somehow. You had to block out all the other things in the world to focus on one narrow, particular thing.”
Source: A Terrible Country
“You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body.”
“You had to be tough in our neighborhood.”
“You had to be tough to be a female member of Congress.”
Source: Ferraro: My Story
“You had to be willing to admit that you were capable of missing something or you would not catch what you missed.”
Source: Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
“You had to be willing to fight in order for a love story to last a life time.”
Source: The Unsung Love Story
“You had to break, to be unbroken. In the brokenness, I had found, that which was unbroken. That which was perfect, and beautiful, and complete.”
Source: The Light In The Darkness
“You had to change who you were to become famous. I thought that for a very long time. Even after signing a record deal, and then eventually getting my own recording company, Wonderland Records, I had to say no to a lot of opportunities to become well known. If it didn't align with my values and if it didn't support the image I had created for myself, I'd pass.”
“You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one.”
Source: Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996
“You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking that the world would be considerably improved if you gave them a slap.”
Source: Wintersmith: (Discworld Novel 35)
“You had to decompress the pressure before the race. I taught my heart to relax. I lay down before the race. It gave me more energy just before the race.”
“You had to endure something yourself before it touched you.”
Source: Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 1: Frenchman's Creek; The Birds & Other Stories; Hungry Hill
“You had to face a certain closed door for a reason. Therefore, you do not need to keep weeping over it.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change.”
Source: The Year of Magical Thinking
“You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that.”
Source: The Year of Magical Thinking
“You had to fight to get into the womb. Not only you but many souls rushed to enter, and the ones that won are you, and you and I. It was not an easy victory.”
Source: Self-realization Magazine
“You had to find the courage to go toe-to-toe and stand up to fear.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's pain and harshness and wretched dreariness with - no not with certainty but with an ignorance you could live with. Deep ignorance, but still a kind that knew its limits. The limits were crucial.”
“You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.”
“You had to give credit to anyone who managed to excel at their chosen pastime, be it golf, hang-gliding or hoovering up cocaine with the speed and efficacy of a Dyson Turbo.”
Source: Rounder's People
“You had to give, uh, a lot of consideration to the fact that, uh, the artist had to come back into the mike area and start singing, especially the background singers, you know. And you had to make sure they had a couple of bars of music in order to catch their breath. And uh, in many cases a lot of choreographers didn't give that, uh, the proper thought.”
“You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.”
“You had to grow up sometime. The fellows who grew early, they were in jeopardy. They became the cops and the crooks, and the crooks became the gangsters. The crooks became the Al Capones.”
“You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn't, he sent men to come and take it away.”
“You had to hate the Colonel a whole lot to keep from loving him.”
“You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be a little too much like Pablo. You couldn't wait for the real Peasant Leader to arrive and he might have too many peasant characteristics when he did. So you had to manifacture one. At that, from what he had seen of Campesino, with his black beard, his thick negroid lips, and his feverish, staring eyes, he thought he might give almost as much trouble as a real peasant leader. The last time he had seen him he seemed to have gotten to believe his own publicity and think he was a peasant.”
Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls
“You had to keep the mood up; you had to keep the tempo up. You had to keep the feeling of, "Hey, we're doing something that's really exciting. It's fun being with these people." And the more fun you have, the better you do it.”
“You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.”
“You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them.”
“You had to know someone very well to make them laugh like that. She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did not know him at all?”
Source: Clockwork Prince
“You had to let go. Don’t feel bad cause you did. It was the only way for you to prove to yourself that you love yourself.”
“You had to let go of your past to embrace your future.”
“You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.”
“You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.”
Source: About a Boy
“You had to look at it as sales, as costumer service. Costumer's alwasy right, you know? Service with a smile. Those type of things so it's just kinda in me. In my DNA.”
“You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering.”
“You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.”
“You had to make everything much more truthful for the camera. With the stage it's a given that it's going to be theatrical.”
“You had to pay attention to everything, at the same time, affirm your charm and carelessness only.”
“You had to pick something like Blue Suede Shoes because it's the flagship of the Sun label, but then I wanted to dig down and find something like Rakin' and Scrapin'.”
“You had to pick up a landline to make sure your best friend wore a matching outfit to school. I do remember people talking more. Nostalgia is dangerous, though.”
“You had to pitch in and out. The zone didn't belong to the hitters it belonged to the pitchers. Today, if you pitch too far inside, the umpire would stop you right there. I don't think it's fair.”
“You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.”
Source: Choke: A Novel
“You had to see yourself poor and think of yourself as being poor, or you never would have been poor.”
“YOU HAD TO SEIZE THE MOMENT, ACT ON A GOOD IMPULSE BEFORE EVERYTHING JUST DISAPPEARED.”
Source: The Story of Arthur Truluv
“You had to stay awake married to him [Humphrey Bogart]. Every time I thought I could relax and do everything I wanted, he'd buck. There was no way to predict his reactions, no matter how well I knew him. As he'd said before our wedding, he expected to be happily married and stay that way, but he never expected to settle down. He liked keeping people off balance. He was good for me -- I could never be quite sure what he would do.”
“You had to take risks, follow some paths and abandon others.”