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“You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.”
“You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all human life from natural conception to natural death.”
“You read about people like you in myths and in the Lore, struggling with their gifts. But it's the struggle that brings greatness. If your powers came easily to you, without incident, you would never appreciate them as you should. And you would no' be a good leader because you would be impatient with others who did have to work hard. It never comes easy to the great warriors in history.”
Source: Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night
“You read about somebody, and doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.”
“You read about that Black Lips/Wavves fight as a spectator and you're like, "Oh man, I'm gonna pick a team to be on! I'm gonna put my two cents in as my status update on my Facebook page" or something. Not to sound like an anti-technology person, but it's just a real drag that people live their lives that way.”
“You read all kinds of books and see all kinds of movies about the man who is obsessed and devoted, whose focus is a single solid beam, same as the lighthouse and that intense, too. It is Heathcliff with Catherine. It is a vampire with a passionate love stronger than death. We crave that kind of focus from someone else. We'd give anything to be that "loved." But that focus is not some soul-deep pinnacle of perfect devotion - it's only darkness and the tormented ghosts of darkness. It's strange, isn't it, to see a person's gaping emotional wounds, their gnawing needs, as our romance? We long for it, I don't know why, but when we have it, it is a knife at our throat on the banks of Greenlake. It is an unwanted power you'd do anything to be rid of. A power that becomes the ultimate powerlessness.”
Source: Stay
“You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be.”
“You read any Greek myths, puppy? The one about the gorgon Medusa, particularly? I used to wonder what could be so terrible that you couldn't survive even looking at it.
Until I got a little older and I figured out the obvious answer.
Everything.”
Source: The Unwritten, Vol. 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity
“You read best what you read most.”
“You read between the wrong lines.”
“You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.”
“You read glowing things and it doesn't feel deserved. You read things that are critical and it cuts you to the bone.”
Source: Through My Eyes
“You read my Cosmo?"
"I read all of your magazines. I took all the love quizzes and pretended I was you answering the questions."
"How did I do?"
"You cheated," I said.”
Source: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
“You read my words and instantly we are both connected”
“You read nothing if you dare not giving any judgement.”
“You read reviews by top reviewers of films that not only had remarkably interesting scores, but films whose effectiveness was absolutely enhanced, and frequently created by the music, yet the reviewers seem unaware that their emotions and their nervous reactions to the films have been affected by the scoring. This is a serious flaw. Any film reviewer owes it to himself, and the public, to take every element of the film into account.”
“You read so much about the healing power of memoir, but you don't read about the wounding power it has first. The recollection of past events is not, in and of itself, therapeutic.”
“You read some good reviews and then you read a bad one, and the bad one pisses you off but there's nothing you can do. It's just an opinion.”
“You read something and you just feel this makes sense. And sometimes before you even read it you have a feeling that yeah, I'm probably gonna do this one.”
“You read something and you know it's not there yet. There's a little section here that... this part's good but that is a little not, it doesn't quite work. That doesn't quite work. That's easy. To say, "OK, now, this is what I think will fix it." That's harder. And most people can tell you what's wrong with something. Very few people can say what they would do to fix it.”
“You read statistics all the time like, "13 million people are at risk because of the severe drought in East Africa," but I think those kinds of numbers fall on deaf ears - there's so much devastation in the world, that it's a bit overwhelming for people.”
“You read stuff about yourself and you think, My God, where are these people coming up with these things? Why am I the one that they're picking on?”
“You read the papers and you watch television, so you know the kind of spider-brained, commercially poisoned piece-of-crap reporting you get in America.”
Source: The best democracy money can buy: an investigative reporter exposes the truth about globalization, corporate cons, and high-finance fraudsters
“You read the past in some old faces.”
Source: The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century
“You read the pragmatists and all you know is: not Descartes, not Kant, not Plato. It's like aspirin. You can't use aspirin to give yourself power, you take it to get rid of headaches. In that way, pragmatism is a philosophical therapy. It helps you stop asking the unhelpful questions.”
“You read these stories of people who were in Hollywood in the late '60s. After they found out about the murders, everybody was like, "Have you met [Charles] Manson? Have you been to that ranch?" In some way, everybody felt connected, but what was it like for people who really were connected.”
“You read too much and understand too little.”
“You read too much.” Daemon exhaled slowly. [...]
"There’s no such thing as that.”
Source: Obsidian
“You read too much, Mr. Kirk," Weigand told him. "Such men get foolish ideas.”
Source: Death on the Aisle
“You read what Disraeli had to say. I don't remember what he said. He said something. He's no longer with us.”
“You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.”
Source: Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
“You read, move your lips, figure out the words, and it's like you're in two places at the same time: you're sitting or lying with your legs curled up, your hand groping in the bowl, but you can see different worlds, far-off worlds that maybe never existed but still seem real. You run or sail or race in a sleigh--you're running away from someone, or you yourself have decided to attack--your heart thumps, life flies by, and it's wondrous: you can live as many different lives as there are books to read.”
Source: The Slynx
“You, reader, believed that there, on the platform, my gaze was glued to the hands of the round clock of an old station, hands pierced like halberds, in the vain attempt to turn them back, to move backward over the cemetery of spent hours, lying lifeless in their circular pantheon.”
Source: If on a winter's night a traveler
“You reading this letter means that my son loves you. And when a Maddox boy falls in love, he loves forever.”
Source: A Beautiful Wedding
“You ready for this, little lightning girl?”
Source: Red Queen
“You ready?" Julian asked, a curious look on his devastatingly handsome face.
"No," Yadriel confessed, his voice tight.
Julian grinned. "Do it anyways.”
Source: Cemetery Boys
“You ready? I have gold teeth, I have braids, I'm wearing Rick Owens moon boots, I have rips in my denim, a biker vest, I love artsy girls, my favourite artists are Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon. I'm obsessed with being different.”
“You ready?" Evan asks, and he's looking at me, and I love his hair, I love his smile, I lo--"I Love You," I say, and as I watch his smile bloom I finally get how great those three little words are. I finally get what they really mean.”
“You realise Group Captain that this might be the most important weather forecast in history?”
“You realise power of money and love when you lose them. You realise power of money more when you lose love along with it!”
“You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it.”
“You realise the responsibility of carrying a film on your shoulders when people are investing money in you and they recognise the hard work you have to put in.”
“You realise you’re going to owe me dinner after this, right?”
“How does McDonald’s sound?”
“Inadequate.”
Source: Her Best Friend
“You realize after you travel enough that there's some things that, no matter how good you are at making television, no matter how good your cameras are, how well it's edited, there's no way the lenses could have captured the moment, and there's no way you will ever be able to write about it and do it justice.”
“You realize as a director that when you are cutting a film, you want to have alternatives. You need color and choices. You don't want four takes that are identical.”
“You realize assuming can often lead to getting into trouble.”
Source: The Last Sunset
“You realize how many times lightning has to strike in order for you to be sitting here?”
“You realize how much fun we did have, with no money at all. We'd stay in peoples' homes in Tangiers. When you're young, you invite yourself.”
“You realize how much the relationship when kids are young can suffer. And it's important to make sure that you are able to spend some time with each other. As a father, the best thing you can do for the kid is to love the mom. Even as a parent, I believe that loving the mother is the most important thing. And even parents who maybe aren't together I think that's important for them as well to respect each other and to be kind to each other, because I think it does so much in who they would pick to be around, or how they feel about themselves.”
“You realize how much you love someone once that someone is gone…gone forever, and you are filled with regret and sadness.”