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“You,” he says, before the door closes all the way. “I often dream of you.”
Source: The Lost Girl
“You!" he scorned. "You liar!" he concluded, addressing her chest.
"There's no need to get personal," she retorted, "everybody here is pretending to be something they are not.”
Source: Behind May-belle's Curtain
“You?” He titled his head, a smirk coming across his face. “Tiny, clumsy, and deadly?”
“That’s me.”
Source: Under His Touch
“You heal the entire neighborhood—and more—every day. Do not discount the small kindnesses, because sometimes they matter more than one big gesture.”
Source: A Gargoyle Gripe
“You heal with your hands and spit fire with your mouth.”
Source: The Dreams of the Descendants
“You hear a few people saying that, you know, maybe some of the past male players like to watch me play or whatever else, just because I play a bit differently and maybe they can relate to it a bit more with a bigger forehand rather than a backhand, good serve and whatnot.”
“You hear a lot about "digital natives." Well, baby boomers are the "digital founders.”
Source: Boomer Reinvention: How to Create Your Dream Career Over 50
“You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.”
Source: Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews
“You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.”
Source: Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist
“You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things going horribly wrong - it went really, really well and I was really pleased when she said yes.”
“You hear a lot of jokes every once in a while about 'Silent Cal Coolidge.' The joke is on the people who make the jokes. Look at his record. He cut the taxes four times. We had probably the greatest growth and prosperity that we've ever known. I have taken heed of that because if he did that by doing nothing, maybe that's the answer.”
“You hear a lot of people, they turn 40 and it really bugs them and they get depressed or whatever. I don't know - I just don't feel that way. I feel 19 years old all the time. I mean, it's not a lie. I could easily say, God, I feel 70. Or maybe I seem like I'm 70 or 200 or something to other people, I don't know. My brain feels 19 all the time. And that's a good spot.”
“You hear about actors who were doing five years on a series as lovers and actually hated each other. I don't know if I could pull it off.”
“You hear about all the great British thespians doing stuff on the West End and that kind of thing, and I missed out on that. Alan Rickman actually suggested to me that I should try it. And I thought, "Geez, I really don't want to do that." But he must have recommended it for a reason, so when an opportunity came up, I took it. And it was tough. It was hard! But by the end of it, I absolutely loved it.”
“You hear about an incident but don't see a mother, a child, a brother. You don't feel the individual suffering, but we began to hear those stories too...These things I wished I could erase from my mind, but they would never, ever, go away.”
“You hear about bands who say, "We did one show where only 20 people showed up", well that was our average gig for five years.”
“You hear about bombings in other countries, or numbers like "10,000 people died" - you hear that number and you think, "Well, I saw that yesterday in a film, and that didn't look so bad." Younger viewers, in particular, lose perspective on reality.”
“You hear about ghosts: sad ghosts, angry ghosts.I'll tell you, the worst is when they laugh, and the worst sort are the ones whose faces I've forgotten.”
Source: Wild Ink
“You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters.”
“You hear about people your whole life, 'So-and-so has cancer,' and you're like, 'Wow, that's too bad,' and then most people tend to go about their day. But when someone tells you that it's your father or it's your family, that doesn't tend to go away.”
“You hear about quality time a lot but I really think that quantity time with a person is really what strengthens a relationship. That's when you really get to know somebody. You get to know their strengths and their weaknesses and that brings you closer. That's what 'Time Is Love' is all about.”
“You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.”
Source: Of Minnie the Moocher and Me
“You hear about the struggles with substances and all that, but [Phil Wood] was a really a great guy. This was a great man.”
“You hear about these shows where there are all these women are supposedly always in a catfight, and then you find out in reality that they're all getting along fine.”
“You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way - and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don't want to die in some unnecessary way.”
“You hear about those stories where a person is married to someone and they have another family - that's pretty much unforgivable!”
“You hear again and again that audiences want to see movies that are different and critics say we [directors] make the same thing again and again in Hollywood, then you go and make something different and you get kicked in the gut for it.”
“You hear all the time about European players playing the game. These players that come over at 17, 18 and 19, they just don't all of a sudden become skilled. From the time they were little fellas, they learned the fundamentals of the game. Let them create.”
“You hear all these great stories about kids starting their own businesses and getting involved in their communities and politics and foundations - all kinds of things. And it's so much easier for kids to get motivated and do that.”
“You hear all these stories about, 'There's one in a million guys that make it to the NBA and stay there.' To see people cheering for me and when they say my name, it's just crazy. It's still crazy to me.”
“You hear all this stuff about inner peace. Hey, there's nothing wrong with it, but I say, hit that line hard. Crack that book - Do your very best all the time and inner peace will take care of itself. The Deacon guarantees it.”
“You hear all this whining going on, "Where are our great writers?" The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?”
“You hear as many things as you would imagine. I hear voices of people I loved once. I hear moments that took place. I hear silences.”
“You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.”
“You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.”
“You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?”
“You hear headlines from time to time about the Amazon rainforest disappearing at a greater or lesser rate.... The real story is that over time the rate has stayed just the same. Year after year, decade after decade, we have failed to stop or really even decrease deforestation.”
“You hear in the person you're destined to love the sound of those yet to be born.”
Source: The Lost Wife
“You hear it every four years, ... Scare the seniors, scare the seniors.”
“You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.”
“You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else. My style of filmmaking happens to be give the audience what they know they don't want, but they want. Ultimately I have to write and direct in a way that let's just say, you don't want to regret making a choice.”
“You hear lots of notes, don’t you? Some have a major sound. Some have a minor sound. But there’s not one blue note among all these black and white keys. The real blues, the soul of the sound, comes from the spaces in-between.”
Source: Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues
“You hear other women sharing these horrific stories of abuse and I look at mine and I find it difficult even saying the word. Because I knew these men, I had feelings for these men. How can I compare myself and my experiences to what others have been through, events that have truly left them scarred? Am I just playing the victim?”
Source: Falling Into Fire
“You hear peewee coaches teaching the 'trap'. What the heck are we doing teaching the 'trap'? Let the kids go, let them have fun; that's how you improve.”
“You hear people say it all the time, how life changes so drastically. But you can't possibly grasp how beautiful that is until you have your child.”
“You hear people say that there's too much CG in movies today, but CG is what allows me to take a green-painted wall in a studio and make it disappear, and then put 100 miles of landscape in. CG, in the right hands, can be a marvelous tool.”
“You hear people say: "One day, when I'm in a good position I can make my passion project." I've seen a lot of people get into that position and not make it.”
“You hear people saying, 'Oh I'm so tired, I've had enough of Cannes.' How can you have enough of Cannes? It's just the best place to be, like a fairytale.”
“You hear people sing songs about when they really can't stand anyone anymore or you hear people sing songs about when they really love someone and they really love them.”
“You hear players, media people, say that it's tough to play in Philly in front of these fans, to those people I say: you didn't have the guts to succeed here!”