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“If you're crying under fire, then you wasn't built for war. If a pimp took your girl, then your girl was never yours.”

Ifs War Girl Fire Cry Built Hip Hop Rap Pimp

Author:MF Grimm

“If you're curious, if you have a capacity for wonder, if you're alive, you know all that you need to know [about music].”

Ifs Knows Needs Inspiration Motivation Wonder Alive Capacity Curious

Author:Michael Tilson Thomas

“If you're curious, London's an amazing place.”

Ifs London Curious Amazing Places

Author:David Bailey

“If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.”

Ifs Cat Curiosity Curious Journalist

Author:Diane Sawyer

“If you're cutting deals with one company or another, eventually, there's going to be a quid pro quo. There's going to be a bribe. There's going to be something.”

Ifs Deals Company Cutting Bribe Quid Pro Quo

Author:David Brooks

“If you're dating a man who you think might be "Mr. Right," if he a) got older, b) got a new job, or c) visited a psychiatrist, you are in for a nasty surprise. The cocoon-to-butterfly theory only works on cocoons and butterflies.”

Ifs Thinking Men Humor Might Funny Jobs Theory Dating Surprise Butterfly Nasty Psychiatrist New Job Cocoons Mr Right

Author:Rita Rudner

“If you're deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you don't do anything but sit on your ass, then you're nothing but a punk”

Ifs Knows World Happenings Blind Obligation Ass Dumb Punk Deaf

Author:Assata Shakur

Source: Assata: An Autobiography

“If you're dealing with a character that actually exists, there's an awful lot of information there. So, you can put together, from the information, motivations, insecurities, reactions. Where does that seed get born, if you like?... What I do is put that together.”

Ifs Doe Character Together Motivation Born Information Seeds Reactions Awful Insecurity

Author:Michael Fassbender

“If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.”

Ifs Trying Stories Song Sound Speech Musical

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“If you're dealing with an assembly of biological systems, you can bring the things together, but you can't connect them.”

Ifs Together Assembly

Author:Bill Mollison

“If you're dealing with grappling [with] problems of feeding people, the biggest impact in fertility reduction is girls' schools. Schooled girls make a bigger impact on that than any other factor - not these various regulations [such as] you have to have one child or that. It turns out that none of these are effective.”

People Ifs Children Problem School Turns Girl Bigger Impact Various Factors Regulation Feeding Reduction Schooled Fertility Grappling

Author:Amartya Sen

“If you're dealing with heavy topic matter, sometimes it's good to have a lightness going into it because it allows you to be open to possibilities, rather than getting rigidly stuck into a certain mind-set. People are strange. When you break up, sometimes you end up laughing with one another, as opposed to crying. Things in life are unusual, and to find those things, it's best to be relaxed.”

People Ifs Mind Ends Sometimes Matter Certain Break Laughing Cry Possibility Strange Heavy Stuck Unusual Things In Life Topics Relaxed Lightness Mind Set

Author:Michael Fassbender

“If you're dedicated to something and you put the time in, why should anyone have an opinion on it? Halif of the people who comment about women's boxing don't even watch it.”

People Ifs Should Opinion Watches Boxing Comment Dedicated

Author:Claressa Shields

“If you're dedicated, if it's something that lives and breathes in your heart, then you've simply got to go ahead and do it.”

Ifs Heart Destiny Breathe Dedicated

Author:Rodney Crowell

“If you're deeply engaged in an event, you're part of it. But if you're outside of it, disinterested, you are the regard that registers history. And that disinterestedness is different from objectivity. The objective view sees only the event, while the disinterested one participates as well as views by creating that link to history. It's a type of viewing that's both inside and out of the event, that brings to the viewing the capacity for human emotion, for compassion, but holds it openly. And objectivity excludes the human element, and is therefore not a point of view open to humans.”

Different Emotion Compassion Point Of View

Author:Cole Swensen

“If you're demanding a rodeo jester be thrown in the dungeons for mocking the king, don't pretend you support a free country.”

Ifs Country Politics Support Kings Thrown Dungeons Free Country Jester Rodeo

Author:Steve Stockman

“If you're denying God's power, that means you don't really believe they were miracles, and so then why believe they happened at all. What you're saying is you're taking the Bible's account as literally true in need of a scientific explanation rather than just people coming up with stuff to fulfill their religious missions.”

People Ifs Needs Believe Mean Stuff Religious Happened Accounts Miracle Missions Explanation Denying God

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“If you're depressed and called Morgan spend the first half of the day in Germany for some positive affirmation.”

Ifs Firsts Half Germany Affirmation Positive Affirmations

Author:Milton Jones

“If you're designing out of a purely creative place, not thinking of the girl, then the consumer's not going to take notice.”

Ifs Thinking Girl Creative Design Consumers

Author:Alexander Wang

“If you're determined to think of yourself as limited, fearful, vulnerable, or scarred by past experience, know only that you have chosen to do so. The opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Past Opportunity Available Determined Chosen Vulnerable Fearful Think Of You Past Experiences Experience Yourself

Author:Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Source: The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

“If you're different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more.”

People Ifs Made Different Pay Unique

Author:Seth Godin

“If you're digging a hole in the wrong place, making it deeper doesn't help anything.”

Ifs Helping Deeper Holes Digging Digging A Hole

Author:Seymour Chwast

“If you're directing and acting, I feel like they both suffer, to some extent. There are so many elements to it. If you do acting and directing, at the same time, it's not going to be as good, I believe, as if you focus on one or the other.”

Believe Suffering I Believe Acting Focus

Author:Josh Hutcherson

“If you're dirty, what in this world isn't?!”

Ifs World This World Dirty

Author:Fuyumi Soryo

“If you're dissatisfied anywhere, New York is the place to be. If you're unhappy at college in Topeka, I don't know what there is to distract yourself with, you know? So anyway, I distracted myself until I decided that the distraction could be a school in and of itself.”

School College Unhappy Distraction Distracted Dissatisfied

Author:Nellie McKay

“If you're doing a big spectacle film, you've got to be mindful of large masses. Even then, you've got to be responsible only to your storytelling.”

Ifs Bigs Film Mass Responsible Storytelling Being Responsible

Author:Guillermo del Toro

“If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.”

People Ifs Knows Trying Mind Persons Reality Accurate Biographies

Author:Clint Eastwood

“If you're doing a classic play, where if you do a Chekhov, you do the words as written. You can't do that with a novel; you have to do your version of the words as written.”

Ifs Play Novel Written Versions Classic Chekhov

Author:Sam Mendes

“If you're doing a column, you kind of have to. Like in the back of Sports Illustrated, Rick Reilly has to find something to be mad about. It's not really the way I approach things.”

Ifs Way Kind Sports Approach Mad Columns Sports Illustrated

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has some light relief.”

Ifs Light Film Forget Serious Drama Elements Relief Comedic

Author:Robert Downey, Jr.

“If you're doing a family movie, you don't want it to be stupid. Farting chihuahuas is not my idea of entertainment for kids or adults. So you try to make a movie that adults can see on one level, and kids can see on another.”

Ifs Want Trying Ideas Kids Levels Stupid Adults Entertainment Chihuahua

Author:Joe Dante

“If you're doing a good job as author, then you get the reader to engage in whatever speculation might be called for. And it's much more meaningful for the reader, if he or she comes up with the questions.”

Meaningful Good Job Speculation

Author:Russell Freedman

“If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.”

People Ifs Littles Made Real Character Hands Might Easy Numbers Talking Months Radio Complicated Enormous Range Puppets Generalities Little Hands

Author:Jim Henson

“If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.”

Ifs Film Singing

Author:Jonathan Demme

“If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something. Or, you have to be singing in a vocabulary that has tremendous appeal or else people are not going to want to sit there for eighty or ninety minutes hearing this stuff.”

People Ifs Want Film Stuff Minutes Singing Hearing Appeals Vocabulary Ninety Eighty

Author:Jonathan Demme

“If you're doing a musical, you should be out to give the audience something special, emotional, an uplifting feeling, something that stays with them.”

Giving Feelings Audience Special Emotional Musical Uplifting

Author:Robert Lopez

“If you're doing a recipe on national television, there's really no room for being sloppy or a nonperfectionist.”

Ifs Rooms Television Recipes Sloppy

Author:Martha Stewart

“If you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid - not only what you think is right about it; other causes that could possibly explain your results; and things you thought of that you've eliminated by some other experiment, and how they worked -to make sure the other fellow can tell they have been eliminated.”

Ifs Thinking Should Has Beens Might Causes Results Fellows Experiments Reports

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“If you're doing an indie and you have time, sometimes you can do take after take after take, but if you're working in television on that filming schedule, you don't always have the time to do that. You learn very quickly, I think, how essential it is to come in with the strongest choice that you have.”

Ifs Thinking Sometimes Choices Can Do Television Essentials Strongest Schedules

Author:Aja Naomi King

“If you're doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you're not going to have a relationship with them, they're not going to like you, they're not going to be your friend.”

Ifs Needs Talking Like You Tension Interviews

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“If you're doing live-action, you have to learn how to actually do whatever it is that you're doing. If you're doing voice-over, you can fake it.”

Ifs Action Voice Fake Over You Voice Over

Author:Tricia Helfer

“If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point.”

Ifs Awful Nonsense No Point

Author:Edward Gorey

Source: Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews

“If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. I'm trying to think if there's sunny nonsense. Sunny, funny nonsense for children — oh, how boring, boring, boring. As Schubert said, there is no happy music. And that's true, there really isn't. And there's probably no happy nonsense, either.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Children Said Boring Awful Nonsense No Point Sunny Schubert Happy Music

Author:Edward Gorey

Source: Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews

“If you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide from the giant surveillance apparatus the government's been hiding.”

Ifs Government Giants Hiding Doing Nothing Surveillance

Author:Stephen Colbert

“If you're doing Plyometrics you can jump higher and run faster and your heart and lungs are going to kick the panties off of anybody else that tries to get out there without it.”

Ifs Trying Heart Running Higher Faster Kicks Lungs Panties

Author:Tony Horton

“If you're doing something in the city, then hopefully you're speaking to somebody who has an open mind who is walking by. And you're also speaking to a community of other people who do similar types of work. I like to think that the outdoor community is broad and able and open for anybody to see.”

People Ifs Thinking Mind Able Community Cities Type Walking Hopefully Broads Open Mind

Author:Margaret Kilgallen

“If you're doing something new there is always a sense of fear or foreboding, but you're in new ground and you have to get out your machete and cut a new path.”

Ifs Path Cutting Something New New Paths Foreboding Machetes

Author:Jeanine Tesori

“If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspective. You've got to have some north star you're aiming for, and you just believe somehow you'll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point.”

Ifs Believe Kind Passion Stars Vision Economy Perspective Something New Just Believe New You North Star

Author:Steve Case

“If you're doing something on an interesting scale that involves an entire universe of characters, one way to unite them is to have them all undergo a common experience, and there is something at Christmas that unites everybody. It already sets a stage within the stage.”

Ifs Way Character Universe Interesting Common Stage Scales One Way Common Experience

Author:Shane Black

“If you're doing something outside of dominant culture there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.”

Ifs Culture Easy Dominant Do It Yourself Dominant Culture

Author:Ava DuVernay

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