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“If you're with someone you don't exactly trust then you have to watch yourself and that's the hardest thing for an actor not to do, and not listen to yourself as you're talking.”

Ifs Actors Talking Watches Hardest Hardest Thing Listen To Yourself

Author:Channing Tatum

“If you're wondering if you're dreaming, you're dreaming.”

Ifs Dream Wonder

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“If you're wondering when you should give to or serve someone else, I believe in doing it spontaneously, perhaps in a shared moment of emotion. Or any time you feel like someone needs your support. Whether you do it all the time, occasionally, or when the opportunity arises, just do it. Reach out and give of yourself and your time. I have seen, time and again, that happiness and enjoyment arise from being of service in simple ways.”

“If you're wondering where the Lord is, At this very hour, I tell you he's alive and well, With resurrection power!..”

Ifs Wells Hours Wonder Lord Alive Resurrection

Author:Carman

“If you're working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.”

People Ifs Trying Kind Children Ends Age Hours Week Television Our Children Income Your Children Aspiration Hopeless Association

Author:Noam Chomsky

“If you're working as secretary of state but half of your emails are about your own private business, since when is secretary of state such a leisurely job that half of your time and half of your email are spent on your own private business? There's something really wrong with that picture.”

Ifs States Jobs Half Secretary Email

Author:Jill Stein

“If you're working at the factory and you're cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You'll just make yourself ill.”

Ifs Cost Ill Get Up Factories Cursing

Author:Jimmy Page

“If you're working for a good company and you're happy there, and you're being compensated accordingly, and your work satisfies you, you should stay there.”

Ifs Should Company Good Company

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.”

Ifs Looks Objects Computer Warm Feminine Editing Bass Curvy

Author:Colin Greenwood

“If you're working on a movie, you want it to be projected on the largest tapestry possible, and the sound to be perfect, and for that kind of communal experience of the movies to take place for it.”

Ifs Want Kind Sound Perfect Tapestry

Author:Greg Kinnear

“If you're working on better conditions for prisoners, if you make that a popular issue and you invite mainstream media to weigh in on that subject, you're going to end up with a much more regressive public-policy environment than if you approach it in a quieter way. It's not because the public is stupid, it's just that people with only a cursory interest in something are going to have a knee-jerk reaction to it. That's impossible to explain in a cable-news media... it doesn't make sense.”

“If you're working on something and it's not coming together, it's easy to say, "I don't want to show this, until I've figured it out." But a lot of times you don't really solve the problems, and then you start getting into a bad situation because you don't have the time to fix it.”

Ifs Want Shows Problem Together Easy Situation Solve Coming Together Bad Situations

Author:Lee Unkrich

“If you're working on something that isn't very demanding, isn't very fulfilling, then you have all this energy to burn, and you can go crazy.”

Ifs Energy Crazy Fulfilling

Author:Michelle Pfeiffer

“If you're working out and taking care of your body, you don't really want the greasy food that makes you feel tired or blah. You actually crave the good stuff!”

Ifs Want Feels Body Care Stuff Tired Work Out Your Body Crave Blah

Author:Jenna Ushkowitz

“If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.”

Ifs Should Believe Littles Humor Funny I Believe Grows Fronts Health Ego Eating Mirrors Clubs Work Out Health Care Muscles Psychiatrist

Author:Lewis Black

“If you're working with a band and you really want to work them into the episode, you've got to say to them, "Look, we need you around every day and on Tuesday night all night because we need you to do voices as we're changing stuff." We do the show so quickly, and you just can't get bands to do that. It's not really fair.”

Ifs Want Needs Looks Shows Night Stuff Voice Band Fairs Episodes All Night Need You Tuesday Tuesday Night

Author:Matt Stone

“If you're working with a director you trust, you can turn that part of you off that wants to direct other actors in a certain way.”

Ifs Way Want Certain Turns Actors Directors Direct

Author:Michael Cera

“If you're working with a producer like Rick Rubin or whatever, you sing each line probably 30 different ways. Each time they're like, "Can you try it this way, can you try it that way?" That's each line in the song, for each song.”

Ifs Way Trying Different Song Lines Producers Different Ways

Author:Glenn Danzig

“If you're working with a spreadsheet or a thread of correspondence or a set of data, I'm not sure you're doing your best work if you're doing it on an iPhone.”

Ifs Data Not Sure Thread Best Work Iphone Correspondence Doing Your Best

Author:Seth Godin

“If you're working with someone who you get on with and you're supposed to hate them on the screen, then you get this playful challenge thing where you're trying to one-up each other and that's really interesting. Sometimes it can become like tennis. The harder you hit the ball back, then the harder the hit it back to you.”

Ifs Trying Sometimes Hate Challenges Interesting Balls Harder Screens Tennis Really Interesting

Author:Joseph Morgan

“If you're worried about a kid and drug use, the safest, best thing to do is individual counseling or family therapy, none of which will expose kids to more deviant or problematic peers and both of which are proven to be effective and at the very least, they won't hurt.”

Ifs Use Kids Individual Hurt Drug Worried Best Things Therapy Things To Do Peers Proven Counseling Drug Use Deviants

Author:Maia Szalavitz

“If you're worried about caribou, take a look at the arguments that were used about the pipeline. They'd say the caribou would be extinct. You've got to shake them away with a stick. They're all making love lying up against the pipeline and you got thousands of caribou up there.”

Ifs Looks Would Be Used Lying Argument Sticks Worried Shakes Making Love Pipeline

Author:George H. W. Bush

“If you're worried about life-work balance, something is probably wrong with your life or your work. Instead of agonizing over balance, get excited and create change.”

Ifs Balance Excited Worried Work Life Balance Agonizing

Author:Chris Guillebeau

“If you're worried about messaging, people will just move to something else. You know if you legislate against Facebook and Apple and Google and whatever else in the US, they'll just use something else. So are we really safer then? I would say no. I would say we're less safe, because now we've opened up all of the infrastructure for people to go wacko at.”

People Ifs Knows Use Moving Safe Worried Apples Google Infrastructure

Author:Tim Cook

“If you're worried about putting food on the table or putting a roof over your head, that stress is definitely will contribute to unhappiness, but once you have your basic needs met then incremental money.”

Ifs Needs Mets Stress Tables Worried Over You Unhappiness Roof Basic Needs Roof Over Your Head

Author:Tony Hsieh

“If you're worried about safety, you might like to follow my example and put on that seat belt." "The what?" Xavier shook his head in disbelief. "You worry me," he muttered.”

Ifs Might Worry Example Safety Worried Seats Belts Disbelief Seat Belts

Author:Alexandra Adornetto

Source: Halo: Number 1 in series

“If you're worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it's almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.”

Ifs Facts Pay Attention Military Program Spending Worried Pay Attention Deficit Military Spending

Author:Noam Chomsky

“If you're worth over $50m you should have to dress like that guy on the Monopoly box. The super-rich shouldn't get all the benefits of looking like a regular guy.”

Ifs Should Guy Rich Benefits Should Have Dresses Boxes Monopoly That Guy Over 50

Author:Emo Philips

“If you're wrestling with some sort of decision, reflect for a moment and ask yourself, Am I being brave, or am I being safe? In the end, it depends on whether we think God can be trusted.”

Ifs Thinking Ends Moments Asks Decision Depends Safe Brave Wrestling Trusted

Author:Gary Haugen

Source: Just Courage: God's Great Expedition for the Restless Christian

“If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged.”

Ifs Writing Book Moments Character Views Liberty New York Trade Statues Writing A Book Integrating Main Characters Statue Of Liberty

Author:Richard Price

“If you're writing a book where you want to make a positive truth claim, then you should absolutely call it nonfiction or memoir. If you don't want to make that claim - if that's not what's important to you; if you're more interested in storytelling and interiority and interpersonal relationships than in objective, checkable facts about the world - then why wouldn't you call it a novel, and take advantage of what that gets you, of the extra freedom, of belonging to the tradition of the novel?”

“If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.”

Ifs Writing Years Three Rooms Novel Four Four Years

Author:Mordecai Richler

“If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.”

Ifs Way Needs Writing Mind Stills Character Shows Views Scene Disagree Justified

Author:Tana French

“If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation. In this play, I had a strong main character and it involved some creation around him. That's what I like about adapting that particular play because I added some maneuvering space as a scriptwriter to invent my own things.”

Ifs Writing Play Character Strong My Own Space Creation Particular Involved Scratches Screenplays Adapting Main Characters

Author:Philippe Falardeau

“If you're writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there's a good chance the words you write aren't going to be the ones that end up on screen.”

Ifs Needs Writing Ends Chance Letting Go Prepared Screens Be Prepared Screenplays Good Chance

Author:Meg Cabot

“If you're writing a song about a relationship ending, what you're really doing is honoring how much that person meant to you.”

Ifs Writing Persons Song Relationships Ending

Author:Conor O'Brien

“If you're writing about a character, if he's a powerful character, unless you give him vulnerability I don't think he'll be as interesting to the reader.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Writing Character Interesting Powerful Reader Vulnerability

Author:Stan Lee

Source: Stan Lee's Chakra The Invincible Free Comic Book Day Special 2015

“If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions.”

Ifs Writing Hands Would Be Jobs Political Opinion Novel Pieces Virginia Inappropriate Woolf Political Opinions

Author:David Mamet

“If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.”

Ifs Feels Writing Persons Done Spirit Song Expression Conviction Decent Coming Out

Author:Alex Chilton

“If you're writing fiction, you're dealing with characters who, themselves, will have heartfelt sentiments but who, themselves, live in this culture right now and thus face all the impediments to sort of dealing with those parts of their lives that, you know, that we did. So it would be not only silly but unrealistic to have a character saying that kind of stuff.”

Ifs Knows Writing Kind Character Would Be Faces Culture Stuff Fiction Right Now Silly Sentiments Heartfelt Writing Fiction Impediments

Author:David Foster Wallace

“If you're writing in the mainstream... Whatever that is - the norm. The norm is likely going to be funded because you're giving people what they're used to and what they're gonna get. But anything outside of that norm is going to struggle to get funded. The people who are not "the norms" deserve the chance to make art. I think it's great for all of us to consume all these voices, and that happens when you support these voices that need to be supported because they're not the automatic choice coming out of the gate.”

People Thinking Giving Writing Art Choices Chance Support Struggle Deserve Gates Norm

Author:Kimberly Peirce

“If you're writing on your own, each character is just you. It's just you.”

Writing Character

Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“If you're writing songs by yourself, who's going to tell you if it's good or not? But if you're writing songs with somebody else, you get that immediate feedback.”

Ifs Writing Song Feedback Writing Songs

Author:Glenn Frey

“If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Two Talking Magic Percent Eight Ninety Ninety Eight

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.”

People Ifs Writing Forget Starting

Author:Lena Dunham

“If you're wrong in the way you're right, you're wrong even if you're right.”

Ifs Way

Author:James MacDonald

“If you're yelling within you that they shouldn't yell at you, that is where the pain begins, not with their yelling at you.”

Ifs Pain Within You Yelling

Author:Byron Katie

“If you're yelling you're the one who's lost control of the conversation.”

Ifs Love Life Lost Relationship Conversation Yelling

Author:Taylor Swift

“If you're young and inexperienced you might accept what people tell you, that everything's going to be fine, it's okay. It's usually other young people saying that, who don't know any better. It's good to have a survival instinct because increasingly, especially in the whole Arab Spring sort of violence, you're mostly with young people who have not experienced what they're doing before.”

People Accepting Violence Survival Spring Okay Instinct

Author:Jon Lee Anderson

“If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.”

Ifs Writing Kind Enough Young Literature Periods Marvelous Apprenticeship

Author:Irwin Shaw

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