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“You take the job very seriously and between action and cut, that's where your focus should be. And then there's a lot of levity in between and a lot of good fun.”
“You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.”
Source: Life On The Mississippi
“You take the pen, and the lines dance. You take the flute and the notes shimmer. You take the brush, and the colors sing. So all things have meaning and beauty in that space beyond time where you are. How, then, can I hold back anything from you?”
“You take the quote from Sam Jackson about how he'll never work with a rapper, and I can understand where he's coming from because he says rappers can't act.”
“You take the risk of being rejected.”
“You take the risk of being rejected. If you have pretentions to be an artist of any kind, you have to take the risk of people rejecting you and thinking you're an arsehole.”
“You take the senses away, and there is no consciousness. Consciousness comes from experience.”
“You take the thing that is the worst thing that could have happened to you, the worst challenge in your life, and you turn it into fuel. You don't give up. And that's what Gotham is about.”
“You take the work seriously, you don't take yourself seriously. You keep that straight and you'll do well the rest of your life.”
“You take this cold, remarkable, difficult, dangerous, borderline psychopath man, and you wonder what might have happened to him had he not met his best friend, a friend that no one would have put him with, this solid, dependable, brave, big-hearted war hero. I think people fall in love, not with Sherlock Holmes or Dr. Watson, but with their friendship. I think it is the most famous friendship in fiction, without a doubt.”
“You take this meat eating. Many people have to kill the animals because of your non-vegetarianism. You are responsible for the death of those animals. They are killed because you eat them. This is a sin. What a sin to kill innocent animals and eat them.”
“You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns.”
“You take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.”
“You take up energy towards someone because you think loving your enemy doesn't just mean caving into your enemy. It means first of all liberating yourself.”
“You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering park like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber.”
Source: The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition
“You take up the spiritual path only when you feel you cannot do otherwise.”
Source: Words of the Mother - II
“You take what the guy gives you. If there's nothin' there, you handle it. No problem.”
“You take what you can get, I reckon. You take what you can get.”
Source: Rootless
“You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.”
“You take what you've learned, you pass it down, and you keep working.”
“You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“You take wrong conclusions because you base it on momentary moments. There are a lot of events that lead to something, essential for fair judgement that you cannot know of and if you knew you’d have a totally different opinion.”
Source: The Impossible Proof Of Knowing Nothing
“You take your audience through such a story where they have to invest their energy and emotion, and to slap them in the face with, "Well, this is how life is. Bye," wouldn't have been as great as the ending that we have, which is optimistic and hopeful. It's not happy 100%, but it does make you feel like, "This kid may just be okay."”
“You take your car in for checkups more than you take your body in for checkups. And you change the oil in your car more than you change some of your habits, and some of the things you're putting into your body. So, for heaven's sake, take better care of your body.”
“You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.”
“You take yourself out of the moment and knock yourself off balance when you judge and think about what you are doing, rather than experiencing and enjoying what you are doing.”
Source: Yoga Cures: Simple Routines to Conquer More Than 50 Common Ailments and Live Pain-Free
“You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in.”
“You take yourself to be limited, but you are not. Discover this. Stay silent and attentive. Be earnest about it. Just be aware of your being here and now. Reality will find you.”
“You talk about 'Obama is going to herd us into FEMA brainwashing camps.' Maybe your brain needs a little washing.”
“You talk about a hateful bunch of people. They have this hate list. Charles Murray. He has been victimized with riots on college campus because he is depicted as a profound hater on the Southern Poverty Law Center website and the left treats that place like a Bible.”
“You talk about a tide of history. Well, there are some occasions when one man seems to stand his ground and just refuses to accept getting washed away. That's how we arrogant Americans won the New World. And that's how you, Mr Churchill, have saved the Old World. But for you, the whole of Europe would by now be one vast concentration camp. Nobody's ever going to forget that.”
Source: Last Man to Die
“You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays?”
“You talk about crying! The spring of 1988, I spent a fair length of time trying to come to grips with who I was and the habits I had, and what they did to people that I truly loved. I really spent a period of time where, I suspect, I cried three or four times a week. I read Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them and I found frightening pieces that related to...my own life.”
“You talk about her as if she's made of spun glass. Know what I see? Steel.”
Source: The Winner's Kiss
“You talk about making this article cheaper by reducing its price in the market from 8 d. to 6 d. But suppose, in so doing, you have rendered your country weaker against a foreign foe; suppose you have demoralized thousands of your fellow-countrymen, and have sown discontent between one class of society and another, your article is tolerably dear, I take it, after all.”
Source: Specimens of the table talk
“You talk about me, I am chicken to fight you. That's not true. I bring you dessert on November 12th.”
“You talk about seeing around corners as an element of success. That's what differentiates the good leader. Not many people have it. Not many people can predict that corner. That would be a characteristic of great leaders.”
“You talk about sexual abuse? Bill Clinton's wife ran the bimbo eruptions units when he was in the White House to seek and find the women who might accuse Bill Clinton of sexual abuse (and other things) and destroy them. And advertisers never leave the Clintons, and donors never leave the Clintons. Why is that? Because donors and advertisers never receive massive numbers of complaint emails from all of these Twitter and Facebook bots.”
“You talk about the [armed] service teaches you how to depend on each other, the service makes you aware of the common good and strips that down. Guys who go into service get to have that. But that's a high price to pay in this day and time with going into service.”
“You talk about the Pro-Life movement being one of the great shames of our nation. I think, if you want number two, I think - I think it's that. I think it's absolute - it's a travesty that people have forced someone who is gay to make their case that they deserve the same basic rights.”
“You talk about the values that you have whether they're in favor or not in favor. That's how you lead. The reality is, we're losing more and more elections.”
“You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!”
“You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything.”
Source: The Machine Stops
“You talk as if I was a kind of poetess sort of person.’
‘I don’t know that you aren’t. I connect you with a view — a certain type of view. Why shouldn’t you connect me with a room?”
Source: A Room with a View
“You talk as if we were still in the Middle Ages. The world has changed, Vivian.”
“Has it?” Vivian’s tone was mocking. “Show me a world that does not hate a powerful woman, and I’ll show you a world without men.”
Source: A Resistance of Witches
“You talk as long as you are listened to.”
“You talk; I'll sleep. feel free to make up my side of the conversation in case you get bored. I recommend throwing in the occasional 'fuck you' on my behalf, just to keep things true to life.”
Source: Sworn in Steel
“You talk like a drunk man walks: in every direction but where he be headed.”
Source: Stone of Tears
“You talk like we're in open warfare."
"Aren't we?" The man blew on his tea. "You're pointing a gun at something."
"I'm annoyed.”
Source: A Study in Darkness
“You talk more when you're nervous," he said, still standing close to her. "No i don't. That's absurd. I'm just trying to explain to you-" "Do i make you nervous?" "No. I'm not nervous." "You're trembling." "I'm cold. I'm wearing practically zero clothes." His glance went to her lips, then back to her eyes. "I noticed.”