All Quotes

You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.
‐‐ Alan Furst

You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.
‐‐ Tony Kushner

You have to have in mind what you want when you go public. It's not just an end in and of itself. Suddenly, you have investors to satisfy. Investors who want - who demand - a return.
‐‐ Gary Kovacs

You have to have integrity.
‐‐ Michelle Yeoh

You have to have pace, you have to have high production values, you have to have interesting graphics, and you have to have attractive people. CNN could afford not to be so obedient to those commands, and for a long time, it wasn't.
‐‐ Brit Hume

You have to have passion for a subject to write about it. You can't expect your readers to feel any excitement if it's nothing but a boring writing exercise for you.
‐‐ Leonard Mlodinow

You have to have patience to be a legislator.
‐‐ Gene Green

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.
‐‐ James Carville

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
‐‐ Billy West

You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.
‐‐ Iain Banks

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
‐‐ Laura Carmichael

You have to have talent to design and to dress thousands of women or millions of women around the world. And you know very well, the only thing they want is to look more beautiful.
‐‐ Carolina Herrera

You have to have talent to some extent - I certainly hope I have talent - but you have to have luck as well. Once you get that first shot, that will get you noticed for the rest of your books and that will give the rest of your books a better chance.
‐‐ Robert Jordan

You have to have talent. You have to get the audition and then you have to nail the audition.
‐‐ Joel McHale

You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.
‐‐ Tom Verlaine

You have to have the common sense.
‐‐ Ivana Trump

You have to have the courage to face the unexpected. This is the difference between people who do things and people who don't dare, who don't dare to live.
‐‐ Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki

You have to have the right atmosphere, really be in the right mood to really fully enjoy a Cohiba.
‐‐ Raul Julia

You have to have the right mind-set.
‐‐ Bonnie Blair

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.
‐‐ Robert Rauschenberg

You have to have wonderful actors for material, particularly difficult material that requires complicated performances.
‐‐ John Wells

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
‐‐ An Wang

You have to have your wallet for security reasons. I'm the governor. And I had to have money. I had to buy something to eat. You have to have identification.
‐‐ Robert J. Bentley

You have to have your wits about you and think quickly on your feet.
‐‐ Michael East

You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.
‐‐ Ted Williams

You have to hold onto your fantasy.
‐‐ Betsey Johnson

You have to hold your bloody own or you're lost.
‐‐ Christine Baranski

You have to hone your craft, but you also have to be born with a certain amount of talent, and I never took the talent for granted - I've always worked really hard to be as good as I could be.
‐‐ Diane Warren

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.
‐‐ Rita Dove

You have to, in a way, just get your head down and do the work and not expect every day to bring riches and not expect every minute to bring wild excitement, 'cause it just doesn't. It doesn't on films, anyway.
‐‐ Martin Freeman

You have to, in some ways, trust in the human spirit and in human ingenuity.
‐‐ Ariel Garten

You have to, in your own life, get people to want to work with you and want to help you. The organizational chart, in my opinion, means very little. I need my bosses' goodwill, but I need the goodwill of my subordinates even more.
‐‐ Lloyd Blankfein

You have to insulate yourself - I'm talking about from everything, people can be talking to you and you won't hear 'em - that's how you write a song. And I haven't been able to do that over here 'cause I'm so busy and then, when I am off, I want to get away from music.
‐‐ Mel Tillis

You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
‐‐ Rachel Zoe

You have to invest in yourself and your surroundings.
‐‐ Swizz Beatz

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that's your body.
‐‐ Rihanna

You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.
‐‐ Ralph Fiennes

You have to just enjoy yourself sometimes, and the audience will, too. Not every role has to be 'The Taming of the Shrew.'
‐‐ Matt Passmore

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.
‐‐ Peter Mullan

You have to keep a strong sense of who you really are - and I have a pretty strong sense of myself. It gets me in trouble when I say this, but I don't think of myself as a politician. I've always tried to be honest when communicating with people.
‐‐ Rudy Giuliani

You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun.
‐‐ Billy Corgan

You have to keep challenging yourself. I've always tried to do that, and I'm not saying I've always been successful. Maybe I've rewritten the same song; it's inevitable, but I've always been mindful of taking the writing somewhere else. You can't stick in your little comfort zone.
‐‐ Paul Weller

You have to keep fit being a singer - that's part of the job. You can't do it unless you have incredible stamina.
‐‐ Roger Daltrey

You have to keep going and pursue your dreams.
‐‐ Joey King

You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really become very successful when you stick together. Just keep going and reaching bigger and better.
‐‐ Dan Hawkins

You have to keep hobbies in L.A. Otherwise, it's sad.
‐‐ Lake Bell

You have to keep pushing toward those dreams no matter what setbacks happen.
‐‐ Anthony Hamilton

You have to keep running. I always believed I was going to be safe.
‐‐ Rickey Henderson