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“I've often said that we are doing something far more important than just selling cosmetics; we are changing lives.”

Said Important Selling Life Changing Cosmetics

“I've often said the most difficult things I have to say to people through humour. I can very quickly put someone in their place with it. But we all walk away unscathed because there's been some funnies around it, and I'll usually make sure that it comes back at me.”

People Said I Can Difficult Walks Humour Difficult Things

Author:Dawn French

“I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.”

Men Said Politics Horse

Author:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.”

Kind Said Two Actors Type Shy Gregarious

Author:Al Pacino

“I've often said to myself, "Thank God I can write, 'cause this is hilarious." I actually wanted to go into all that more in the book, but my editor thought it was too crazy.”

Writing Said I Can Book Wanted Causes Crazy Editors Thank God

Author:Carrie Fisher

“I've often said why does God leave us here on earth, once we accept Christ, once we're in the family, why didn't he just kill us. Why leave us here? Well, because he's working on our character through these trials, these tribulations, we're learning to practice what we're going to do in heaven. So really, the kingdom mindset is actually the eternal mindset. It's not just about eternal life. Eternal life is getting ready for that.”

Wells Doe Said Character Earth Life Is Heaven Christ Accepting Practice Ready Eternal Mindset Trials Kingdoms Eternal Life Tribulation

Author:Rick Warren

“I've often said, not totally jokingly, that screenwriting doesn't really qualify as real writing at all. You don't string sentences into paragraphs. You don't maintain a constant breath, or create internal rhythms, or even develop a fully-formed thought. The camera does all that work for you!”

Writing Doe Said Real Breaths Cameras Constant Sentences Rhythm Internals Strings Paragraph Screenwriting

Author:Jonathan Raymond

“I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.”

People Littles Turns Hours Inspiring Party Acting Listening Silent Dull Idols

Author:Marilyn Monroe

Source: My Story

“I've often stopped working for long periods.”

Long Periods

Author:Carl Andre

“I've often talked about that, and I've been asked that a couple of times and my feeling are that if you have a good show, a bad host will not even hurt the show.”

Ifs Shows Feelings Hurt Couple Host

Author:Wink Martindale

“I've often thought about that and the only suitable member to join me on that climb [to Everest] was George Lowe: he was strong, a good man on a mountain, with a great sense of humour, and I liked that. I think George and I could've done that together ... I've probably never told George that.”

Thinking Men Done Together Strong Humour Mountain Members Climbs Good Man Suitable Everest Lowes

Author:Edmund Hillary

“I've often thought I would like to try to write a conventional novel, but I just don't know enough about the real world to write one.”

Knows World Writing Trying Real Enough Novel Real World Conventional

Author:Jim Woodring

“I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.”

Ifs Shots

Author:Bethenny Frankel

“I've often thought that if planners were botanists, zoologists, geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in such planning than we have when we leave it to the engineers.”

People Ifs Knows Earth Planning Engineers Urban Planners Urban Planning Geologist City Planning Zoologist

Author:William O. Douglas

“I've often thought that it would be great to do some acting because nobody would think that I would be able to do it and it scares the living hell out of me.”

Thinking Would Be Able Acting Hell Scare

Author:Larry Mullen, Jr.

“I've often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me.”

Faults Intimacy

Author:Luke Ford

“I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.”

Way Book Stealing Scholar Really Great Scruples

Author:Malcolm Bradbury

Source: Eating people is wrong

“I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions.”

Fiction Imagine Terrible Variety Imagine That Convenient Inner Life Strangeness

Author:Siri Hustvedt

Source: The Sorrows of an American: A Novel

“I've often thought that the process of aging could be slowed down if it had to go through Congress.”

Ifs Process Aging Congress Patriotic

Author:George H. W. Bush

“I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.”

Thinking Mean Expression Victim Delusion

Author:Aleister Crowley

Source: The Diary of a Drug Fiend

“I've often thought that when something is hard for you, whether it's going to law school or anything else that challenges you, that's probably what you should do.”

Should Hard School Law Challenges Law School

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I've often thought there ought to be a manual to hand to little kids, telling them what kind of planet they're on, why they don't fall off it, how much time they've probably got here, how to avoid poison ivy, and so on.”

Kind Littles Hands Kids Fall Planets Ought Poison Little Kid Manuals Ivy Poison Ivy

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

Source: Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

“I've often thought, I'm nobody. Why would God answer my prayer? But God's not impressed by eloquence; he's impressed by our longing for him.”

Spiritual Prayer Answers Longing Impressed Eloquence Not Impressed

Author:Stormie Omartian

“I've often told people who ask if there is a God: Get around enough people with horses and see what happens. See how they survive in spite of all the things they do, and you'll become a believer!”

People Ifs Enough Happens Asks Horse Believer Spite Old People If There Is A God

Author:Buck Brannaman

“I've often tried to describe how memory works. I've suggested this to students, and told them to close their eyes and try to remember what I look like. Then I ask them if they remember what I look like. But when you open your eyes you will be surprised how different what you thought I looked like is to what I actually look like. Because the imagination is a different raw material from actual vision. Memory is very different from the thing itself.”

Trying Different Eye Remember Imagination Memories Vision Students

Author:Lore Segal

“I've often tried to imagine my dream role and what that would truly mean. I'm not sure I've reached a clear picture of it yet, but I have always said the reason I wanted to act was ultimately to develop characters that evoke emotion and consequently change lives.”

Mean Said Reason Character Dream Wanted Emotion Roles Clear Imagine Life Changing Not Sure Evoke

Author:Haley Strode

“I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I'm working on, like popular culture, is so present all around us that they're hard to see. It's like: How do you see the air you breathe? How do you see how it affects you?”

Thinking Sometimes Hard Used Culture Air Subjects Extremes Breathe Comment Mainstream Popular Culture

Author:Lauren Greenfield

“I've often wanted to play the victim, or somebody who makes terrible choices. I would love to play the alcoholic mother who horribly lets down her children. That's a great morally imperiled role.”

Children Play Wanted Mother Choices Roles Terrible Victim Alcoholics Let Down

Author:Lucy Lawless

“I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A river at my garden's end; A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood.”

Life Years Ends House Wish Walks Half Clear Land Six Hundred Garden Rivers Plant Woods Pounds Handsome Lodges Terrace

Author:Jonathan Swift

“I've often wished we had more women in the Senate.”

Senate

Author:Mitch McConnell

“I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that.”

Writing Book Happens Pages Awe Outlines

Author:Charlaine Harris

“I've often wondered about the shyness of some of us in the West about standing for these ideals that have done so much to ease the plight of man and the hardships of our imperfect world. Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible, but probable.”

Men World Done Age Shy Hardship Imperfect New Age Shyness A Perfect World

Author:Ronald Reagan

“I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.”

Knows Men Earth Faces Dies Felt Know How Baseball

Author:Mickey Mantle

“I've often wondered, what if all of us in the world discovered that we were threatened by an outer -- a power from outer space, from another planet. Wouldn't we all of a sudden find that we didn't have any differences between us at all, we were all human beings, citizens of the world, and wouldn't we come together to fight that particular threat?”

Ifs World Humans Together Fighting Differences Human Beings Space Particular Planets Citizens Threat What If Threatened Outer Space

Author:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“I've often written about places that are totally different from anything I know. Sometimes they turn out better.”

Knows Different Sometimes Turns Written

Author:Randy Newman

“I've once gotten in trouble with certain gay activists because I'm not gay enough! I am a morose homosexual. I'm melancholy. Gay is the last adjective I would use to describe myself. The idea of being gay, like a little sparkler, never occurs to me. So if you ask me if I'm gay, I say no.”

Ifs Littles Ideas Enough Use Lasts Certain Asks Trouble Gay Ask Me Melancholy Activist Homosexual Adjectives Being Gay Describe Myself Morose

Author:Richard Rodriguez

“I've only been a mom for not even two years yet, so I haven't had much of a chance. But boy do I wish I could have lunch with my girlfriends in the middle of the afternoon. I don't remember the last time I had lunch in the afternoon with my girlfriends.”

Years Two Lasts Remember Wish Chance Boys Middle Havens Mom Girlfriend Two Years Lunch Afternoon Last Time My Girlfriend

Author:Mila Kunis

“I've only been acting since 2009 and I learn more and more with each job. I think I prepare and I'm very focused and I have a good work ethic that I learned in school.”

Thinking School Jobs Acting Ethics Focused Good Work Work Ethic Good Work Ethic

Author:Jenny Slate

“I've only been gone a week," I reminded him. Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours. Which is ten thousand, eighty minutes. Which is six hundred thousand, for hundred seconds.”

Wells Long Hours Gone Week Minutes Thousand Ten Six Long Time Hundred Seven Eight Seconds Sixty Eighty Seven Days

Author:Meg Cabot

Source: Vanished: When Lightning Strikes & Code Name Cassandra

“I've only been in long-term relationships. I've never really dated myself.”

Long Term Long Term Long Term Relationship

Author:Dakota Johnson

“I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.”

Love Mirrors Beer Bottles Beer Drinking Drinking Beer Been In Love Brewing Funny Beer Brewing Beer Funny Beer Drinking Great Beer Craft Beer Beer Love Beer And Love Cold Beer Light Beer

Author:Sid Vicious

“I've only been in one fight in my whole life... in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I'm a maniac.”

Thinking Whole Fighting Whole Life Grades Maniacs

Author:Ray Liotta

“I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.”

People Way Littles Bits Havens Little Bit Unrequited

Author:Sam Smith

“I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.”

Sides Artistic

Author:Elton John

“I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years.”

Ifs Years Lasts Students England

Author:Terri Windling

“I've only been on one vacation ever. I just went to Acapulco before training camp.”

Training Camps Vacation Training Camp Acapulco

Author:Terrell Owens

“I've only been three years in the industry - but I would say from my observations, my personal opinions, that the world in Hollywood and all the big movies has been built up as just white.”

World Opinion Observation Big Movie

Author:John Boyega

“I've only been to Dublin once, and I had a great time. I got completely soaked because it was rainy.”

Great Times Rainy Dublin Had A Great Time

Author:Jodie Foster

“I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.”

Ifs Would Be Felt Voice Wake Up Inspired Ireland Songwriters Voices In My Head Very Inspired

Author:Steven Morrissey

“I've only been to one concert in my life.”

Concerts

Author:Sarah Paulson

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