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“I don't want somebody who writes like me [in my writing staff]. Because I can write like me. I know what I'm capable of and what my limitations are. If you're going to build an orchestra, you don't want all tubas - you want a violin and you want a cello and you want a drum set.”

Ifs Knows Want Writing I Can Capable Like Me Limitation Staff Orchestra Violin Because I Can Tubas

Author:Tom Fontana

“For me any moment in front of a crowd is embarrassing, because I can't stand being in front of people. I'm probably one of the worst public speakers. I try to avoid it, but there are times when it's just too rude not to do it. But there really isn't a moment that's not embarrassing for me if I'm going to stand up in front of a crowd.”

People Ifs Trying I Can Moments Worst Fronts Crowds Speakers Rude Embarrassing Because I Can

Author:Christian Bale

“I love my job very much, and I don't think I would change it. In fact, I know I wouldn't, because I can't do anything else.”

Thinking Knows I Can Facts Jobs Because I Can

Author:Simon Pegg

“Barack Obama is the President of the United States, a politician in America, a very religious country, so I understand why he has to pretend to be a religious person himself. I say pretend because, I can only hope that someone as bright as he, wouldn't really believe that people can walk on water and ride a winged horse and rain frogs and you can change water into wine.”

People Believe Persons I Can Country States America President Water Religious Walks United United States Politician Rain Horse Wine Barack Frogs Because I Can Religious Person

Author:Bill Maher

“Stand-up is great because I can get everything off my chest.”

I Can Chests Because I Can

Author:Bill Maher

“I have always felt compassion for the planet. Sometime I just start to get emotional. I cry because I can almost feel the pain in the air. I put it in words and in song and in dance I think that is what artistry is.”

Thinking Feels I Can Pain Song Felt Compassion Air Cry Emotional Planets Because I Can Artistry

Author:Michael Jackson

“I've got to love the souls of people. Because I can't love every incarnation. To love their souls, I have to identify with my own soul.”

People I Can Soul My Own Incarnation Because I Can

Author:Ram Dass

“Grab something off the shelf that's on the spaceship-an ashtray, it doesn't matter what. Because I can tell you, if they flew here from another galaxy, no matter what you've pulled off the shelf, it'll be unlike anything we have on Earth.”

Ifs I Can Matter Earth No Matter What Aliens Shelves Galaxy Flew Because I Can Spaceships Ashtrays

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Why can't Pluto be a planet? Some people like Pluto. And if it doesn't exist then they don't have a favorite planet. Right? Please write back but not in cursive because I can't read cursive.”

People Ifs Writing I Can Planets Please Because I Can Pluto Cursive

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I'll always write about what's going on in my life and the reason for that is it's not actually because I'm so fascinated with myself, it's because I can't think. I can't think like have thoughts in my head and think them through and come to a conclusion. It's like math for me.”

Thinking Writing I Can Reason Math Conclusion Fascinated Because I Can

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“I do not think I will ever become deadened, because I live in other people's lives, I must admit there are times when it weighs medown because I can't do some of the things I want.”

People Thinking Want I Can Understanding Empathy Vitality Want U Because I Can

Book:A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends, 1943-1962

Source: A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends, 1943-1962

“I think I need to be married. Having a wife and family makes some sense out of all that I do, because I can't make any sense out of 20,000 adoring fans watching me for two hours.”

Thinking Needs I Can Two Hours Wife Fans Married Being Married Because I Can

Author:Neil Diamond

“Suddenly that it was as dangerous to be in America as it was to be overseas. So that the false distinction that's made by the anti-war movement between being over there and over here was exposed for all to see as an illusion. Although a number of people, a large amount of people still share in it. In other words, when I've been in Iraq or Afghanistan, I've probably been safer because I can carry a weapon if I have to, than my wife and daughter are living in Washington.”

“I love a good wool suit, and I appreciate the fact that it's a natural fiber. I know where it comes from, and I know how it's bred. And it's built to last. It breathes and it feels good. A lot of my climbing and hiking gear is all wool, because I can wear it for a week straight and it doesn't smell. And when you get hot and sweaty in a cold temperature, it stays warm. So your body temperature stays at a good warmth rather than freezing your ass off.”

“I keep going back to love when I write songs because I can't figure it out.”

Writing I Can Song Figures Keep Going Because I Can

Author:Taylor Swift

“I need to learn how to stop destroying myself, stop being hard on myself and be nice to myself. I need to keep telling myself that I need to keep wanting something, something nice, something warm[so] I can make other people happy. I can understand other people's pain because I can love even after all that is left of me is gone because I have that strength.”

People Needs I Can Hard Pain Left Gone Nice Warm Destroying Being Nice Because I Can

Author:Daul Kim

“I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can't rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of violence may be justified, if it is focused directly at a great evil.”

Ifs May I Can Evil Violence Possibility Circumstances Degrees Absolutes Focused Defined Justified Because I Can Pacifist

Author:Howard Zinn

“I've played more villains than anything else. And I love playing villains, because I can just be evil and do whatever I want.”

Want I Can Evil Villain Because I Can

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“I can't really sing and play live, because I can't play bass efficiently and sing at the same time. If I concentrated on the vocals, I'd mess up the bass, and if I concentrated on the bass, I'd forget the lines.”

Ifs I Can Play Lines Forget Mess Vocal Bass Because I Can

Author:Bill Wyman

“All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I’ve ever written was because I don’t have a choice. I write stories because I can’t wait to tell it, I can’t wait to see how it ends.”

Writing I Can Ends Stories Choices Waiting Written Because I Can

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.”

World Writing I Can Loses Fiction Because I Can Writing Fiction

Author:Roxane Gay

“When you gain weight, for every pound that you gain, it adds four pounds of stress on your knees. So if you gain five pounds, you've got 20 pounds of stress on your knees. So that's why I'm extremely careful with my portions and my workout, because I can't be overweight.”

Ifs I Can Five Four Gains Weight Stress Add Careful Knees Pounds Portions Workout Because I Can Overweight

Author:Richard Simmons

“I don't have to hate any person because I can always start anew, I can always reconcile.”

Persons I Can Hate Because I Can Reconcile Starting Anew

Author:Nhat Hanh

“I live right in front of my daughter. I have a little house right in front of her because I can stay in touch. It's like a little commune, and it's very nice, because you can be close. I can see my granddaughter. I live very close to my brother, too, and my son. We're a very close family.”

Littles I Can House Nice Fronts Son Brother Daughter My Brother My Daughter My Son Because I Can Very Nice Communes Granddaughter Close Family

Author:Debbie Reynolds

“I actually enjoy working with green screen, because I can imagine all that stuff happening, and I really cut my teeth on a movie I made called "Adaptation" where I had to imagine four-page dialogue scenes with my twin brother, who was nothing more than a tennis ball and a gas stand.”

Made I Can Stuff Enjoy Four Cutting Imagine Brother Scene Pages Happenings Balls Green Screens Teeth Dialogue Tennis Gas Twins Adaptation Because I Can Tennis Balls Twin Brother

Author:Nicolas Cage

“I feel like Twitter was tailor-made for me, because I can do short spurts all day long. I loved my blog, but doing daily, then thrice weekly entries was really time consuming. 140 characters is perfect.”

Feels Long Made I Can Character Can Do Perfect Blogs Consuming Because I Can Entry Tailors Time Consuming Thrice 140 Character

Author:Sarah Dessen

“People ask me, 'Would you ever want to play professional golf?' And I'm like, 'No. No, no, no, no. Just because I can hit a good shot every now and then doesn't make me a pro.'”

People Want I Can Play Asks Shots Golf Ask Me Now And Then Because I Can

Author:Mia Hamm

“I don't use any fance quill pens or pads, because I can't read my own handwriting. I just use whatever computer is laying around, and start writing.”

Writing I Can Use My Own Computer Pens Because I Can Pads Handwriting Quills

Author:Mitch Albom

“I love when I am around a veteran in [show] business. Because I can dig and ask questions, and find out the "who" and "what" of it all.”

I Can Shows Asks Veteran Show Business Because I Can

Author:Jill Scott

“I have a very big apartment in Paris but you can't really move around there anymore; piles of books everywhere. I don't want any more books. I have too many books; sometimes I have to buy another copy of a book that I know I have somewhere in my house or office because I can't find it.”

Knows Want I Can Book Sometimes Bigs Moving House Office Paris Copies Apartment Because I Can

Author:Peter Lindbergh

“Maybe because I can't even put together an IKEA desk, I've never been tempted to think of my own poems as built objects - but I do sometimes imagine them as mathematical constructs.”

Thinking I Can Sometimes Together My Own Imagine Objects Built Mathematical Desks Constructs Tempted Because I Can Ikea

Author:James Arthur

“I like being behind the camera because I can control perception and what people see.”

People I Can Behinds Perception Cameras Because I Can

Author:Grimes

“Mike Hammer drinks beer because I can't spell Cognac.”

I Can Drink Beer Spells Hammers Mike Because I Can Cognac

Author:Mickey Spillane

“It would be wrong of me to suppose that just because I can form private mental images, that everyone can. As Francis Galton and William James long ago showed, a small proportion of adults-and some of these extremely intelligent-are unable to form such visual images. Berkeley's point is that it would be equally arrogant for these non-thinkers or non-image formers to claim that everyone is like them in the relevant respect. The temptation to pontificate in that way reveals a narrowness and unwillingness to see the world from another perspective.”

World Way Mind Long I Can Would Be Form Perspective Adults Claims Intelligent Temptation Visuals Proportion Thinker Relevant Arrogant Long Ago Because I Can Berkeley Visual Images

Author:David Berman

“I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?”

Thinking Knows Want Feels Should Believe Kind Mean I Can Happens Form Tree Buddhism Ego Suspects Retreat Because I Can Zen Buddhism

Author:Kate Atkinson

“I write because I can't imagine not writing.”

Writing I Can Imagine Because I Can

Author:Richard Price

“I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.”

Ifs Firsts I Can Done Would Be Painting Instinct Drawing Right Thing Erase Because I Can Illustration

Author:Francis Bacon

“If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.”

People Ifs Looks I Can Dilemma Because I Can Portraiture

Book:Francis Bacon: portraits and heads

Source: Francis Bacon: portraits and heads

“I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.”

Thinking Writing I Can Book Bears Publish Because I Can

Author:Philip Roth

“Just to be true to myself, which is why I did this movie. I figured everyone was going to freak out and say, 'Why would you do that after Dorothy Dandridge?' My answer is 'Because I can.' And that feels really good to be comfortable saying that.”

Feels I Can Actors Answers Comfortable Being True Movie Freak Because I Can True To Myself

Author:Halle Berry

“Sometimes I'll leave the house and go to a delicatessen down the street from me - it's been there a million years - just because I can look at people.”

People Years Looks I Can Sometimes House Millions Streets Because I Can

Author:James Ellroy

“From my point of view, being out is not about anything political. It's just because I can't be bothered to be in.”

I Can Political Views Point Of View Bothered Because I Can

Author:Rupert Everett

“It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.”

I Can Too Much Bother Because I Can

Author:David Hockney

“I look at leading men because that's ultimately what I'm aspiring to do. But I also look at character actors and people that I'm just in awe by, just because I can relate to it.”

People Men Looks I Can Character Actors Relate Awe Because I Can Character Actors

Author:Shemar Moore

“I've always been interested in space in pictures. I think my going deaf increased my spatial sense, because I can't get the direction of sound. I feel that I see space very clearly, and that's because I can't hear it. So it's a compensatory thing.”

Thinking Feels I Can Sound Space Deaf Because I Can Spatial

Author:David Hockney

“I think anyone who's not as good a writer as me is absolutely a hack, and I think anybody who's a slightly better writer than me is brilliant. So of course that makes me a horrible critic when it comes to books, because I can't distance my own experience from what I'm doing.”

Thinking I Can Book Courses My Own Distance Critics Brilliant Horrible Because I Can Hacks

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“I never have been a musician; I'm not actually capable. Because I can't even pretend to acquire the gift, all of my first feelings about art are still attached to music. I look at it yearningly, I look at it wonderingly. I behold it from afar, as something unattainable, something outside of myself, from which I can take nourishment, but I can't domesticate and master.”

Firsts Looks Has Beens Art Stills I Can Feelings Masters Musician Capable Acquire Because I Can Nourishment Afar Unattainable

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“I'm not God, but I'm working within my own means as an artist and a person, and I possibly have more power than God does, in whatever form he has, if he exists, because I can work without the overarching ambition of wanting to rule over everything. I can work just for the heck of it.”

Ifs Mean Persons Doe I Can Form Artist My Own Ambition Because I Can

Author:Raymond Pettibon

“I believe certain doctrines because God says they are true; and the only authority I have for their truth is the Word of God. I receive such and such doctrines, not because I can prove them to be compatible with reason, not because my judgment accepts them, but because God says they are true. Now this is one of the best services we can render to God,-to submit ourselves to him in our belief of what he has revealed, and ask him to fix his truths in our hearts, and make us obey them.”

Believe Heart I Can Reason Certain Asks Belief I Believe Accepting Truth Is Prove Authority Judgment Doctrine Word Of God Submit Because I Can Compatible Best Service

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“I pray because I can't help myself.”

I Can Helping Praying Helpless I Pray Because I Can

Author:C. S. Lewis

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