Up To You Quotes

Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.

There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine.

If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.

Surround yourself with a really good group of friends that are true and honest and won't lead you astray and make you compromise who you are as a woman or a young woman.

And then she finally said yes. And we have been married, I want you to know, for 51 years.

Most fan have been like, "You're a monster, you give me nightmares, don't talk to me."

You can't lead anybody you don't love. You can't do it. It's not possible.

It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and through.

Way over on the railroad, Tomorrow all the tipping trucks will unload together, Every scrapbook stuck with glue, And I'll stand beside you, Beside you, child.

Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.

Jackie Wilson said it was Reet-Petite, kind of love you got knock me off my feet.

If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.

You can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to do performance-wise.

Your behavior is a choice; it isn’t who you are.

If you really love someone, you shouldn't have to work at it, you finish each others' sentences and have the same sense of humor.

Working for with someone who has no idea what they wanted... it would just be so all over the place, especially with something on this scale. You have to know what you want with this.

Cause there was a time when all I did was wish You'd tell me this was love. It's not the way I hoped Or how I planned But somehow it's enough.

Show me who your friends are and I'll show you who you are. It works for me. Stay positive and good things happen.

You are not going to find yourself anywhere except right where you are.

Bridal is always about who you are as a person and as a woman and as a lover and as a mate. People always ask me how a woman can pick just one dress. And the funny thing is they always know.

I can play the leading man. I can play the action hero, maybe in just a different way. I look at it as, you know, if you set your mind to it, you can do it.

Well, what do you know," Pham said. "Butterflies in jackboots.

There was nothing more painful than hurting someone you loved.

I don't want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.

Being honest doesn't mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.

About when to let others sacrifice themselves for you, even if its selfish. They say that if the sacrifice is the ultimate way for that person to show you that they love you, let them do it.

But when you kill someone you love, the hard part is never over. It just gets easier to distract yourself from what you've done.

It's a crazy feeling when people know who you are and respect your game. It's much appreciated.

It's funny when you put music up against picture, and all your preconceptions go away, and you start over. You just realize that that doesn't work at all.

That's what I love about kids. They don't care about anything else but who you are as a person.

You cannot be in pretend for people to like you.

Some wedges are great but you can look like your feet are encased in cement.

Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses.

What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.

I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.

Kids are shy and they often don't want to make eye contact or say "thank you."

You don't think of yourself as your external representation, or even your national origin or anything like that. You don't reduce yourself to that. That's kind of unthinkable.

We create the government that screws you, and then you're supposed to thank us for protecting you from it.

They may not love you at the time, but they will later.

You have to first experience what you want to express

I don't care who you are, but you turn into a different person when you don't sleep.

Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.

It's harder to work with people who are not as dedicated to their craft. It also leaves you a better actor when you finish the project, since you always feel like you've learned something.

Each character has their own challenges. The challenge to doing one scene is your whole history of who you are and your relationships, you only have this one shot.

I sort of feel like that's the most revolutionary thing we can do with our narrative for me as Black people is to show that we are just like you.

It is important that early in life you choose companionable prejudices, for the fact is that they are likely to stay with you for a lifetime.

Once your acting job is over, you just hope they have a good editor and they put together a good film.

You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.

I appreciate the support and anyone who takes up a position on my behalf. Especially in matches, this feeling that there are people behind you, gives me a lot of strength.

They say writers sell everybody out. What can you do? You know only the people you know.