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“If you're a fat person - and especially if you're a woman - at all stages of your life you'll get abuse for it, so you have to work out a way of dealing with it. The best way is to be humorous about it - that defuses any tension.”

Ifs Way Persons Stage Humorous Abuse Work Out Best Way Fats Tension Dealing With It

Author:Jo Brand

“If you're a female and you get asked by someone who shoots the most beautiful female scenes to be in their film, it's kind of exciting.”

Ifs Kind Beautiful Film Scene Female Exciting

Author:Norah Jones

“If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and listen. Let the character talk. Don't censor, don't control. Listen, and write.”

People Ifs Writing I Can Character Fiction Quiet Fiction Writers

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

Source: Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story

“If you're a fighter, you recognize a fighter.”

Ifs Fighter

Author:Danai Gurira

“If you're a film fan, collecting video is sort of like marijuana. Laser discs, they're definitely cocaine. Film prints are heroin, all right? You're shooting smack when you start collecting film prints. So, I kinda got into it in a big way, and I've got a pretty nice collection I'm real proud of.”

Ifs Way Real Bigs Film Nice Fans Proud Video Shooting Collections Print Marijuana Collecting Cocaine Heroin Smack Lasers Discs

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“If you're a first-responder in Missouri as part of a fire department, you're three times more likely to respond to a drug overdose than you are a fire. So it's a problem. I don't know exactly what the right number is, but certainly I think members of the Senate and House are rightly concerned about it.”

Thinking Problem House Drug Concerned

Author:Roy Blunt

“If you're a fish and you want to be a fish-stick, you have to have very good posture.”

Ifs Want Humor Funny Sea Rivers Sticks Very Good Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Posture Good Posture

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“If you're a foolhardy, braggadocios male figure who wants to charge forward in every fight, it has its pros and its cons, that's for sure.”

Ifs Want Fighting Figures Males Foolhardy

Author:Cody Rhodes

“If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business very long.”

Ifs Writing Long Has Beens Used Given Ignored Neglected Being Ignored

Author:Poppy Z. Brite

“If you're a full-time manager of your own property - and full-time, according to Congress, is 15 hours a week - you can take unlimited depreciation and use it to offset your income from other areas and pay little in tax. One of the biggest real estate tax lawyers in New York said to me, if you're a major real estate family and you're paying income taxes, you should sue your tax lawyer for malpractice.”

Real Hours Week Taxes Property Lawyer Income Tax

Author:Hillary Clinton

“If you're a gardener you don't need a gym. [...] You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over.”

Ifs Needs Gym Gardener Manure

Author:Michael Caine

“If you're a gardener, or creating a garden you're clearly looking to the future. You have a sense of your own future and a sense of yourself in that space. People coming here feel that hope, that renewal, and that sense of regeneration. They get their hands dirty and connect back to the ground, which is what we feel strongly about - giving everybody the opportunity to get connected to the earth.”

People Ifs Giving Feels Hands Earth Opportunity Space Creating Garden Connected Dirty Renewal Gardener Regeneration Looking To The Future

Author:Amanda Marshall

“If you're a gay person I'd rather not be stuck in a lift with you.”

Ifs Persons Gay Stuck Lifts Rock N Roll

Author:Kerry King

“If you're a generous person, when you get money and fame, you're going to be more generous. If you're a sharer, you're going to be more sharing. If you're a coward, you're just going to be a bigger coward. That's all money and fame does.”

Ifs Persons Doe Fame Bigger Generous Coward Get Money Money And Fame Generous Person

Author:Steve Harvey

“If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.”

Ifs Wells Talking Subjects Eggs Gifted Flirting Flirty Flirtation Coquetry

Author:Mignon McLaughlin

“If you're a girl and you don't fit the very specific vision of what a girl should be, which is always from a man's perspective, then you're a little bit at a loss.”

Ifs Men Should Littles Girl Bits Loss Vision Perspective Fit Little Bit

Author:Ellen Page

“If you're a global company you are going to have jobs overseas. The reality is if we start taxing those jobs at a rate that makes them noncompetitive in those markets, the reality is that we're going to lose business.”

Ifs Reality Jobs Loses Company Rate

Author:Anne M. Mulcahy

“If you're a goalkeeper, it doesn't matter what you save the ball with; if you keep it out, it's not a goal.”

Ifs Matter Goal Balls Goalkeepers

Author:Mark Lawrenson

“If you're a good band then the filter of the band is pretty strong.”

Ifs Strong Band Filters Good Bands

Author:Black Francis

“If you're a good composer, you steal good steals.”

Ifs Stealing Composer

Author:Leonard Bernstein

“If you're a good experienced player, you wknow what it takes to do. If you're in trouble, you know how to change. One hundred percent of my game is instinct. I never stop and think I'm going to hit a ball crosscourt or down the line. I just do it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Games Sports Leadership Lines Know How Player Trouble Percent Hundred Balls Instinct Just Do It

Author:Bjorn Borg

“If you're a good fighter on the street, you don't have to tell anybody that you're good at fighting. Let someone else talk about how great you are at this or that or whatever is the case. And if no one finds out then no one finds out, that's fine too. But I think leading by example is always the strongest.”

Thinking Fighting Fighter Good Fight

Author:Caleb Landry Jones

“If you're a good improviser, you improvise well enough that people think that you're doing a sketch.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Enough

Author:Amy Poehler

“If you're a good marketing person, you have to be a little crazy.”

Ifs Littles Persons Crazy Marketing Great Marketing

Author:Jim Metcalf

“If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person.”

Ifs Persons Language Numbers Bad Language

Author:Frank Luntz

“If you're a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants.”

Ifs Persons Goodness Good Person Descendants

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.”

Ifs Sound Singers

Author:Casey Abrams

“If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.”

People Ifs Littles States Bigs Bits Little Bit Fellows Governors Your Presence

Author:Ed Gillespie

“If you're a great defensive player, you're a great defensive player 100% of the time. You can't be a great defensive player half of the time because you didn't get the ball once or twice. That can't sidetrack you. It's got to be 'I live for my defense, and my offense I'll get. But I can't let it affect my defense. Nothing affects my defense.'”

Ifs I Can Half Player Balls Defense Offense

Author:Doc Rivers

“If you're a great documentary filmmaker, it doesn't necessarily mean that you're a great narrative filmmaker. There are fantastic documentary filmmakers that can't direct actors. You don't have to do that in a documentary, if it's a real documentary.”

Ifs Mean Real Actors Direct Fantastic Narrative Filmmaker Documentaries

Author:Alexander Skarsgard

“If you're a guest [at my $113 million house], you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any image you like - presidential portraits, reproductions of High Renaissance paintings, pictures of sunsets, airplanes, skiers in the Andes, a rare French stamp, the Beatles in 1965.”

Ifs Able House Millions Painting Screens Presidential Sunset Guests Airplane Portraits Stamps Renaissance Reproduction Skiers Painting A Picture

Author:Bill Gates

“If you're a guild, treat your comrades right. That's all I wanted to say.”

Ifs Wanted Treats Comrade Guilds

Author:Hiro Mashima

“If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.”

Ifs Feels Should Instruments Guitar Intimidated Guitarist Synthesizers

Author:Andy Summers

“If you're a gunfighter, you like to die in the street.”

Ifs Dies Streets

Author:Jay Leno

“If you're a guy over 30 by yourself in the hotel pool, you automatically look like a murderer who's just relaxing after he strangled a family. "Yeah-that dad was a tough one to kill."”

Ifs Looks Funny Guy Comedy Dad Tough Yeah Hotel Pool Murderer

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“If you're a guy, you have absolutely no idea what's going on at any time in the relationship, ever. Here's what you know: you know when you're getting laid, and you know when it's all over. Those are the only two things you're aware of.”

Ifs Knows Two Ideas Humor Funny Guy Comedy No Idea Two Things Getting Laid

Author:Adam Carolla

“If you're a hater we make you scared to show your face. It's called success.”

Ifs Shows Faces Scared Your Face

Author:Rick Ross

“If you're a history buff, you know about J. Edgar Hoover. He was likely the most powerful man in the US. If you start reading about him, the books contradict each other constantly. I was often left with very little sense of the man personally. I had a sense of what he did and didn't do and what people disagreed about whether he did this or didn't do this or that, but I was like, "Why? Why was he doing all of this?" That was my big question.”

People Ifs Knows Men Littles Book Bigs Reading Left Powerful He Man Most Powerful Big Questions Hoover Powerful Man J Edgar Hoover

Author:Dustin Lance Black

“If you're a horse in a race, if you don't have blinkers on, and you turn your head and look at the audience, you're just going to trip up and fall. So I tried to never get intimidated by McCarthy's legacy, and I tried to ignore.”

Fall Audience Horse Legacy Intimidated

Author:John Hillcoat

“If you're a host of a video show and you're on the cleanest show on television for eight years, people want to say, 'Well, that's what that person does.' That was the dilemma for me, career-wise.”

People Ifs Want Years Wells Persons Doe Shows Careers Wise Television Eight Video Host Dilemma

Author:Bob Saget

“If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.”

Ifs Humans Earth Human Beings Strange Walking

Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.”

Ifs Humans Done Human Beings Talent Electricity

Author:Maya Angelou

“If you're a human being, you'd have to be terrified. The impunity ... That these guys can sit on a TV show and just chat in a relaxed way about killing people like Julian Assange. They're joking, but at the same time, it's a vicious kind of rhetoric. The degree of enmity and the show of power and force against Assange must have terrified him. He was prepared to be paranoid when he was young - when nobody was actually after him. But this easy kind of vitriol and hatred that you now see as part of common discourse, it's become part and parcel of our everyday chatter.”

People Kind Guy Easy Common Hatred Killing Everyday Rhetoric Paranoid Parcel

Author:Jeremy Scahill

“If you're a humble person, and you walk in, and you start talking, people are going to be able to tell. You can't fake it.”

People Ifs Persons Able Walks Talking Humble Fake Humble Person

Author:Chamillionaire

“If you're a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina, you're treated as royalty. And in the United States, we're endlessly fascinated by the family.”

Ifs States United United States Treated Fascinated Royalty Argentina

Author:Douglas Brinkley

“If you're a kid at a secondary comprehensive in North London as I was in the seventies, prancing around doing acting and being a luvvie wasn't really a good idea for your personal security.”

Ifs Ideas Kids Acting Security London Good Ideas Seventies Comprehensive Personal Security Prancing

Author:Steve McFadden

“If you're a kid in Southern California, somebody - whether it's you or your parents - somebody throws your hat into the ring and I think everyone had a commercial or two.”

Ifs Thinking Two Kids Parent Rings California Hats Southern Southern California

Author:Danny Bonaduce

“If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don't have to aim very high.”

Ifs Kids Today Guy Aim Cartoonist Family Guy

Author:John Kricfalusi

“If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.”

Ifs Trying Persons Kids Figures Normal

Author:Katherine Paterson

“If you're a kid who was not especially a star in your high school, I recommend going to a college in the middle of nowhere. I got all the attention I could ever have wanted.”

Ifs Kids Wanted School Stars Attention Middle College High School Hilarious Middle Of Nowhere

Author:Mindy Kaling

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)

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