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“You have to pray for things for ages,' said Tip, 'and you don’t always get them then.'
'Why not?' asked Lovejoy, who wanted a quick return.
'God doesn’t want you to have them, I s’pose,' said Tip.
Lovejoy looked sternly into the church at the plaster figures. 'Which one is God?' she asked.”
Source: An Episode of Sparrows
“You have to prepare for the unexpected. You have to be able to react to things that don't necessarily happen every night, or aren't supposed to happen every night. And you have to react to it in character.”
“You have to prepare physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually to conquer any mountain.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“You have to press against the pressure that’s pressing against you!”
“You have to pretend like you know what you’re doing before you know what you’re doing.”
“You have to pretend like you want to use a condom. I like to say something fun when I bring it up, but honest. I'll be like, 'You're going to want to wear this. I've had a busy month.”
“You have to pretend that you're not bothered by your record leaked early. So that's the tack that I'm taking. It's like if you're working in a store and people come and openly shoplift from you, and you're not allowed to say anything about it. Instead, you're supposed to smile and go, "Hope you enjoy that!" I'm not going to complain about it, I don't get to make the rules. It's just really funny how that works.”
“You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.”
Source: 'Scuse Me While I Whip This Out: Reflections on Country Singers, Presidents, and Other Troublemakers
“You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure.”
“You have to prioritize what you stress about when you have a child.”
“You have to promise to introduce me to your sisters. The beauty of the Lanoverian royal family is
famous throughout the Four Kingdoms, after all.'
'Why, thank you,' said Rafe with a straight face. 'I do pride myself on my beauty.”
Source: The Princess Pact Epilogue
“You have to promise you won't fall in love with me.”
“You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.”
“You have to protect the integrity of the show, your health, the character, all those things. So it's just about finding the right moments for everything. And if you're too stressed or tired, you to just back off for a little bit.”
“You have to protect your food, otherwise someone else takes it! There is no divinity in here! But there is divinity there: In a civilised order where no being has to defend for its food!”
“You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.”
Source: Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Trade
“You have to protect yourself from sadness. Sadness is very close to hate. Let me tell you this. This is the thing I learned. If you take in someone else's poison – thinking you can cure them by sharing it – you will instead store it within you. Those men in the desert were smarter than you. They assumed he could be useful. So they saved him, but when he was no longer useful they left him.”
“You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible”
“you have to prove to them that you can survive without them”
“You have to prove your success in order to grow.”
“You have to prove yourself over and over, and when the glory for your most recent achievement expires, as it must, as it always will, you have to start again, but with more eyes trained on you, more people waiting for the day your talent withers, and your discipline weakens, and your charm wears away. Success is only meant to be rented out, borrowed in small doses at a time, never to be owned completely, no matter what price you're willing to pay for it.”
Source: I Am Not Jessica Chen
“You have to pull all your energy back to the present moment. And the moment the whole energy becomes a pool, here and now, the explosion of light happens and you are, for the first time, absolutely yourself - an eternal being, an immortal being, who knows nothing of death, who has never come across any darkness.”
“You have to push beyond every limitation to achieve the goal.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“You have to push on both pedals to make the wheels go 'round. Similarly, you need faith in Christ as well as knowledge. The problem is that there are always Christians who want to push one pedal - either knowledge or experience. We need both.”
“You have to push people's boundaries and not feel bad about it. No one is going to give you anything if you don't ask for it.”
Source: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“You have to push through every barrier to get to the mountain top.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“You have to push through every difficulty to have a breakthrough.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“You have to put all the criticism of this club down to jealousy. United have produced more players who have played for their country, more world-class players and more players who have won European Footballer of the Year than any other team in this country, so we must be doing something right.”
“You have to put aside your ideology. Howsoever beautiful it looks, howsoever systematic it looks, howsoever philosophical you have made and decorated it, you have to put it aside and see within. That's the whole method of meditation, awareness, watchfulness.”
“You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.”
“You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are.”
“You have to put the idea into action. If you don’t have the motivation and the enthusiasm, your great idea will simply sit on top of your desk or inside your head and go nowhere.”
“You have to put these hooks in it, you know? You've got to make sure you got all that ear candy in it to get it through the gate.”
“You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.”
“You have to put work into relationships to keep them fun.”
“You have to put your body on the line from time to time in order to make a statement or change a law.”
“You have to put your character to rest after x amount of years.”
“You have to put your ego aside as an actor. Or you're using your ego to tell the story. Your body is a part of a tool to tell the story. So if you feel something, it's wrong. It means you're not inside of the character.”
“You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parenting”
“You have to put yourself in a position to be lucky.”
“You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it's a monastery.”
“You have to put yourself in my shoes as a person who believes in radical truth and in being radically transparent, not in seeing things through somebody else's eyes.”
“You have to put yourself to one side and get away from the 'Victorian poet' model where you are the universe. You have to do everything you can to take your ego out of the equation.”
“You have to question a cinematic culture that preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay supporting scenes that portray women in scenarios of sexual torture and violence for entertainment purposes, but they are trying to force us to look away from a scene that shows a woman in a sexual scenario, which is both complicit and complex. It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self.”
“You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.”
Source: The Violent Bear It Away: A Novel
“You have to raise $100 million, probably, to be serious.”
“You have to raise the bar. Give yourself a challenge. Ask yourself, 'How can one make the impossible materialise?'”
“You have to ration sympathy and grief in here the way you ration school supplies.”
Source: A Deadly Education
“You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices.”
“You have to reach out to your inner-abuser and make peace. You can't live your life as your own worst enemy!”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life