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“It's like in most parts of America, where there was industry and there is no longer; there is cynicism mixed with sarcasm and some optimism. That's how my background influenced my comedy.”

America Comedy Industry Optimism Backgrounds Sarcasm Cynicism

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“It's like in politics: You can have great intentions for the world, but if you're not a good speaker and if you're not the sort of person that people can intimately link with, then it makes it very easy to say, "Well, they're not a nice person."”

People Ifs World Wells Persons Easy Nice Intention Links Speakers Nice Person

Author:Tom Felton

“It's like in the Bible.You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it." "What part of the Bible is that from?" Ig asked her. "The Gospel of Keith Richards?"”

Ifs Want Needs What You Want Rolling Stones Keith

Author:Joe Hill

Source: Horns

“It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass.”

“It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game.”

Knows Play Home Kids Mother Father Games House Pay Acting Dresses Kids Playing

Author:Robert Duvall

“It's like kill or be killed, that's my thing basically.”

Author:Lucy Liu

“It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.”

Doe Body Speak Language Who You Are Your Body Vocabulary Grammar Learning Language

Author:Fred Frith

“It's like learning to fall properly. If you can manage not to tighten up you won't hurt yourself as much. The same theory applies to your day, physically and emotionally. The tensions simply can't take hold.”

Ifs Fall Hurt Theory Manage Tension

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

Source: Diane Von Furstenberg's Book of Beauty: How to Become a More Attractive, Confident, and Sensual Woman

“It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.”

Forget Never Forget Unicorn Fowl Artemis Fowl

Author:Eoin Colfer

“It's like live action if you reshot every scene a million times after finishing the movie. Because even apparently by the very end, a few weeks before they were screening it for the world premiere, they were making changes. That's just simply something you can't do on live action.”

Ifs World Ends Action Millions Week Scene Making Changes Finishing Screening Premieres

Author:John Francis Daley

“It's like living at an airshow, unless you have something against airplanes, golf, guns, motorcycles, nice cars or drinking.”

Nice Car Gun Golf Drinking Aviation Airplane Motorcycle Nice Cars

Author:Brian R. Norris

“It's like living in a retirement home! Clarence is taking a nap right now, and he eats at five. It's so boring." "You've only been here for two days." "And that's been more than enough. The only thing keeping me alive is that he keeps a hefty supply of liquor on hand. But at the rate I'm going, that'll be gone by the weekend. Jesus Christ, I'm climbing the walls." His eyes fell on the cross at my neck. "Oh. Sorry. No offense to Jesus.”

“It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report on top of that.”

Heart Book Able Three Wonder Students Broken Reports Perks Of A Wallflower Quiz

Author:Stephen Chbosky

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

“It's like looking at the sun, that's how infinity is. You can't look at it for too long or you dissolve. The bands of your attention break. But if you look at it in specific ways, you can become something or someone much more conscious.”

Ifs Way Looks Long Attention Break Sun Awareness Buddhism Band Conscious Infinity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's like losing a son because I loved Michael and Michael loved me. But you know, as when people grow up and they make their own decisions and they move forward, there's a distance, and I think that Michael in some cases might have gone too far with some of the things he was doing.”

People Thinking Knows Might Moving Grows Decision Cases Gone Growing Up Son Losing Distance Moving Forward

Author:Berry Gordy

“It's like love making, the foreplay is the biggest part, the same thing as comedy. If you can frame your show in such a way that the funny jokes become funnier.”

Ifs Way Shows Comedy Jokes Love Making Like Love Funny Jokes

Author:Tommy Chong

“It's like love. When you look too hard, you don't find it. When you let it happen naturally, it comes.”

Looks Hard Happens Tennis Like Love Motivational Tennis

Author:Marat Safin

“It's like low-budget filmmaking - a focus on dialogue and relationships over plot. Quirky. Improv.”

Focus Lows Dialogue Budgets Plot Filmmaking Quirky Relationship Over

Author:James Franco

“It's like male geeks don't know how to deal with real live women, so they just assume it's a user interface problem. Not their fault. They'll just wait for the next version to come out- something more "user friendly.”

Knows Real Problem Next Waiting Deals Know How Assuming Faults Males Versions Friendly Users Geek Interfaces User Interface User Friendly

Author:Douglas Coupland

“It's like many other things in life, Ellie. You keep on the path and all's well. You get off it and the next thing you know you're lost if you're not lucky.”

Ifs Knows Wells Next Lost Path Lucky Things In Life

Author:Stephen King

Source: Pet Sematary

“It's like most anything. If you want to be a loser, there's always a way to dwell on the negative. If you want to win, there's always a way to think positively.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Winning Negative Loser Positively Think Positively

Author:Tony La Russa

“It's like my characters, all my men are Dad and me in a mess; all my female characters are smart and hopeful, like Mom just trying to make the best of things.”

Men Trying Character Mom Dad Smart Female Mess Hopeful Female Characters

Author:Bret Easton Ellis

“It's like my father always said to me, he said to me, he said, Roseanna Roseanadana, it's always something. If it isn't one thing--it's another! It's always something.”

Ifs Said Father One Thing

Author:Gilda Radner

“It's like my garden, love. Everything grows. Including love. And with that growing everyday how can you expect missing her to ever fade away? Everything builds, including our ability to cope with it. That's how we keep going.”

Grows Ability Growing Missing Garden Everyday Including Keep Going Fades Fade Away Garden Love Missing Her

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“It's like my having to walk down thousands and thousands of white marble stairs...and nothing but a very very blue sky, very blue...and I'd have to walk down them forever. I never thought about going up...Don't you think that must mean something?”

Thinking Mean White Walks Forever Sky Blue Stairs Marble Blue Sky

Author:Edie Sedgwick

“It's like my whole life never happened, When I see you, it's as if I never had a thought. I know this dream, it might be crazy, But it's the only one I've got.”

Ifs Knows Whole Dream Might Happened Crazy Whole Life Being Crazy

Author:Bob Dylan

“It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together.”

World Writing Whole Together Whole World Thread Pencils Needles Undone Scrap Back Together Needle And Thread

Author:Julia Alvarez

Source: Before We Were Free

“It's like never hearing a Joy Division album or something. I'm finally watching Twin Peaks, and I'm so into it.”

Joy Albums Hearing Division Twins Twin Peaks Joy Division

Author:Emily Ratajkowski

“It's like night and day... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward.”

Night Europe Bulls Straightforward Being Straightforward

Author:Caprice Bourret

“It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.”

Giving Dies Reviews Obituary

Author:Roger Maris

“It's like one of those dreams that changes you. You keep some of the dream forever, and you know things down deep inside yourself, because it happened to you, but when you go looking for details they kind of just slip out of your head.”

Knows Kind Dream Forever Happened Details Slips Deep Inside

Author:Neil Gaiman

“It's like one of those dreams you have when someone is chasing you. You're running as fast as you can, and someone's trotting behind you, just out of range, trying to grab onto you.”

Trying Dream Running Behinds Range Chasing Behind You Dreams You Have Trotting

Author:Michael Chang

“It's like one of those scenes from a feel-good Hollywood movie. Where everybody is happy and nobody's hair fizzes in the wind. Where it doesn't rain, your shoes stay comfortable all day, and everybody's jokes are funny.”

Feels Wind Hair Scene Comfortable Jokes Rain Hollywood Shoes Feel Good Hollywood Movies

Author:Randa Abdel-Fattah

“It's like our country is being run by a bunch of bad alcoholic dads right now.”

Country Running Dad Right Now Bunch Our Country Alcoholics

Author:Patton Oswalt

“It's like our daddies and moms always used to tell us growing up, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you earn.”

Used Growing Up Growing Mom Deserve Daddy What You Deserve Deserve You

Author:Tom Brands

“It's like our go-to notion of innocent and secure mythology of American life. I was always amazed when people would come up to me and say that 'Far from Heaven' was exactly what it was like back then. [laughs] I was so disinterested in what it was 'really like' in the 1950s when I was putting the film together, I was only interested in what it was like in movies.”

People Together Film Heaven Laughing Notion Come Up Mythology Innocent Secure Amazed American Life Disinterested

Author:Todd Haynes

“It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side.”

Sides Obvious Our Relationship

Author:Rosario Dawson

“It's like pain, this pleasure.”

Pain Pleasure

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“It's like painting the same blank canvas over and over and over and over and over. Once the concept is known, you don't need to see two. And that was in the back of my head, that I was really done artistically with what I had created or pastiched.”

Needs Two Done Known Painting Concepts Blank Canvas Blank Canvas

Author:Steve Martin

“It's like peanut butter and chocolate. Each is great, but they're better together.”

Together Chocolate Peanuts Peanut Butter Better Together

Author:Richard Whitehead

“It's like people always say, Well, does sport teach you anything in life? It teaches you certain things, but it doesn't teach you other things. It doesn't teach, as I say, very much about marriage, very much about how to make a living, any of those things.”

People Wells Doe Certain Sports Teach Anything In Life

Author:George Plimpton

“It's like people believe all you need to do is like the same bands in order to be soulmates. Or book. Oh my god...you like The Outsiders too...it's like we're the same person! No, we're not. It's like we have the same English teacher. There's a difference.”

People Needs Believe Persons Book Real Order Differences Teacher Band Outsiders Soulmate English Teacher

Author:John Green

“It's like people call me a rock star or this or that. And I go, 'Don't call me that. I don't think of myself in those terms. If you have to call me anything, call me a chameleon.”

People Ifs Thinking Stars Term Rocks Call Me Rock Star Chameleon

Author:Meat Loaf

“It's like people you see sometimes, and you can't imagine what it would be like to be that person, whether it's somebody in a wheelchair or somebody who can't talk. Only, I know that I'm that person to other people, maybe to every single person in that whole auditorium. To me, though, I'm just me. An ordinary kid.”

People Knows Persons Sometimes Whole Would Be Kids Imagine Ordinary Single Person Wheelchairs Auditoriums

Author:R. J. Palacio

“It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a melody you'd once learned by heart, one you can play without even trying.”

Trying Heart Play Realizing Pieces Starting Melody Sheets Unfamiliar Sheet Music

Author:Jodi Picoult

Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

“It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different.”

People Different Play Actors Tennis Chemistry Different Peoples

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“It's like pouring oil from one glass to another down a line - in the end, you don't have any oil left; it is all stuck to the inside of the glasses. This way, 1,000 dollars become 100 dollars by the time it reaches the people. Whereas if we get 10 dollars, we add our effort to it and the money multiplies.”

People Ifs Way Ends Left Lines Effort Dollars Add Glasses Oil Stuck Pouring

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“It's like prom night for Hollywood. I'm really proud of myself for being here.”

Night Proud Hollywood Prom Proud Of Myself Prom Night

Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported.”

Book Reading Vogue

Author:Sarah Jessica Parker

“It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're going to be informed with in the future.”

Real Character Real Life Thank God Being Real Thank You God Preview

Author:Frances Conroy

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