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“That's the process of making the film and it isn't until the world puts their eyes to it that you find out if it's creating any kind of connection at all. But every single film at some stage of the film I think, "I wonder what this is going to be?"”

Ifs Thinking World Kind Eye Film Process Wonder Stage Creating Connections

Author:Colin Farrell

“If there were any in China and Russia in this connection, though we both made some compromises. But these were compromises between friendly countries. I think it is almost impossible to achieve such compromise in other ways.”

Ifs Thinking Way Made Country Impossible Achieve Connections China Russia Compromise Friendly

Author:Vladimir Putin

“I have the opportunity to make my films and I think that's a luxury. I don't have any problems by filming things that can have a connection with left-wing policy, even if we have a right-wing government. There are some countries which cannot say the same, so I'm lucky.”

Ifs Thinking Country Problem Government Film Opportunity Left Policy Lucky Connections Wings Luxury Right Wing Left Wing

Author:Miguel Gomes

“You have to connect with the crowd. If you can't do that, I don't care how good a wrestler you are, or how much muscle you have or how cool your hair is. You have to connect with the crowd. The guys who I like are the ones who have that connection.”

Ifs Care Guy Hair Connections Crowds Don't Care I Don't Care Muscles Wrestler

Author:Chris Jericho

“If Martin Luther King looked at the Obama administration and saw an intimate connection with Wall Street, he'd be very critical. If he saw drones being dropped on innocent people, he'd be very critical. If he saw rights and liberties violated by secret policies of the government, of the kind we've seen by the National Security Agency, he'd be very critical.”

People Ifs Kind Government Secret Liberty Saws Rights Streets Security Policy Wall Kings Connections Critical Innocent Administration Intimate Agency National Security Luther Drones

Author:Cornel West

“I've always been very strong minded on character-based fights and character-based action. If you take the character out of the action and you just shoot it as an action sequence, the audience starts to lose connection.”

Ifs Character Action Fighting Strong Loses Audience Connections Very Strong Sequence Strong Mind Strong Minded

Author:Wade Eastwood

“I personally feel that there's a lot of music journalism that is dominated by genre, because you need a language in which to write, but actually the things that strike people about music, are very hard to write about, and its sonic connections, it's a sense of harmony that I think we all have even if we don't know how to express it - it's something musical, it's synapse connections in our brain.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Needs Feels Writing Hard Language Brain Know How Connections Harmony Musical Strikes Journalism Genre

Author:Ben Watt

“I admit I have no forgiveness. If anyone is ever rude to me, however much they may try to make up, I can't bring myself to re-establish the old [connection]. And when they drop me, I have a sense of relief.”

Ifs Trying May I Can Connections Relief Rude No Forgiveness

Author:Khushwant Singh

“I start at square one with every role. If I let myself feel pressure, it would crush me. The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie. Sometimes that's a palpable thing, but other times it's not. No actor has control of that. All you can control is your own passion for doing the work in the first place.”

Ifs Feels Firsts Sometimes Matter Passion Actors Numbers Pay Attention Roles Audience Truth Is Office Connections Pressure Boxes Pay Attention Crush Squares Box Office

Author:Tom Hanks

“If I have no connection with the character, then it's all fake - it's just blah, blah, blah.”

Ifs Character Connections Fake Blah

Author:Tom Hanks

“If there's no connection between the tactic and the result you're trying to achieve, and if in the process you can damage other people who are in fact innocent in the whole situation, I think you ought to re-examine whether what you're doing makes sense.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying Whole Facts Process Results Situation Achieve Ought Connections Innocent Make Sense Damage Tactics

Author:Allard K. Lowenstein

“If you're going to make an emotional connection with somebody, whether it's in the story or in the world, there's a certain amount of self-acceptance that is required.”

Ifs World Self Stories Certain Acceptance Emotional Amount Connections Self Acceptance Emotional Connection

Author:George Saunders

“I've learned that if I only put my mind to one thing that I can get tunnel vision. Then I may not be as open to other opportunities because I'm so focused on one thing. I think what's worked better for me personally is I have three goals every day: be nice, work hard and make friends. Those are my daily goals, and I feel like those are the things that create opportunity and creating connections that will then lead to other things that I may not have planned for otherwise.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Mind May I Can Hard Three Opportunity Goal Vision Nice One Thing Hard Work Creating Connections Focused I've Learned Being Nice Tunnels I May Not Be Tunnel Vision Nice Work

Author:Gigi Hadid

“The parent reads the book. The kid reads the book and then they can talk about the characters instead of talking about themselves. You know there's a connection even if you don't talk about it when you read the same books.”

Ifs Knows Book Character Kids Parent Talking Connections

Author:Judy Blume

“I was raised in a completely black world. In those days, if a white woman married a black man, she lived as a black woman, and that was just the end of it. So, I don't have a feeling of being bi-racial. I don't have a connection to it. People often come up to me thinking I do have a connection to it, and I kind of let them down because I really don't.”

People Ifs Thinking Men World Kind Ends Feelings Black White Married Connections Raised Come Up Black Women

Author:Shelby Steele

“If we look at the last decades, we see that the US rightist-fundamentalist alliance demonized partnership-oriented families and painted women's rights as a threat to "tradition" - which of course it is to traditions of domination. These people had an integrated political agenda that recognizes that a "traditional" authoritarian, male dominated, punitive family is foundational to an authoritarian, male dominated, punitive politics. We can see this connection in sharp relief in brutal top-down regimes, be they secular like Nazi Germany or religious like ISIS in the Middle East.”

“Contemporary nations such as Sweden, Norway, and Finland, where women are half of the national legislatures, have more caring policies, less violence, and more environmentally sustainable policies. These are connections we must pay attention to if we are to build a better future for us all.”

Ifs Nations Pay Attention Half Violence Policy Connections Caring Contemporary Pay Attention Legislature Sweden Better Future Norway Finland

Author:Riane Eisler

“The local grocery store was a gathering, a community place. You knew the owner, if you didn't have any money they'd let you go for a couple days. You talked. It was a friendly place. Supermarkets are totally impersonal. I mean, you may say hello to the checkout girl or something, but the personal connections are all gone.”

Ifs May Mean Girl Community Gone Couple Connections Stores Locals Owners Friendly Hello Gathering Groceries Supermarkets Grocery Stores Letting You Go Personal Connection Checkouts

Author:Noam Chomsky

“We have the ability to make the connection, make the time to pray and meditate. We have to find our inner voice that will guide us. But we can only find it if we get quiet.”

Ifs Voice Ability Praying Quiet Connections Guides Inner Voice

Author:David LaChapelle

“If I write a paragraph and I don't get a certain lift from it, if I don't feel connected to it emotionally, then it's dead to me. When I'm reading other fiction writers, if I don't get any emotional investment from the writer, if it's just intellectual or clever - you know, most writing that passes as deep is just clever - I don't feel any connection.”

Ifs Knows Feels Writing Certain Reading Fiction Emotional Intellectual Connections Investment Connected Clever Lifts Paragraph Fiction Writers Emotional Investment

Author:Oscar Hijuelos

“When I had dinner with a friend or a loved one and one of you pays for the check and the other says, "I owe you next time." I like to think that we're eternally even - that they don't owe me anything or I don't owe them anything if you have a connection with somebody or a love with somebody. I like to think that there's no debt to pay. You love each other and you're happy to pay for dinner every time.”

Ifs Thinking Next Pay Connections Dinner Debt Checks Loved Ones Next Time Love Each Other

Author:Jim James

“If you don't know the right people or have the right connections, you may never be discovered. With 'Opening Act,' we are democratizing a notoriously impossible process, pulling back the curtains on a consistently fascinating industry, and affording aspiring artists the chance of a lifetime.”

People Ifs Knows May Artist Process Chance Impossible Industry Connections Lifetime Opening Fascinating Consistently Pulling Curtains Affording

Author:Nigel Lythgoe

“While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.”

People Ifs Feels Should Believe Use Pain Sides Decision Emotion Leader Sacrifice Empathy Connections Intention Clinton Careful Vulnerability Companion Be Careful Shorthand

Author:Dee Dee Myers

“Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way.”

People Ifs Way Feels Humans Might Pain Left Connections Occasions Human Connection

Author:George Saunders

“In a building with apartments, of course, you want to make connections. Life is easier that way. There's salt if you don't have salt; you can knock at someone's door, like in any city. But you know, you can hear the others, and you want to sleep, you get annoyed.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Life Is Courses Sleep Cities Doors Building Easier Connections Salt Apartment Annoyed Want To Sleep

Author:Juliette Binoche

“Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the world's greatest libraries - indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need.”

Ifs World Needs Today Information Amount Internet Easier Connections Library Available Access Dwarfs Fingertips Internet Connection

Author:Peter Singer

“You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.”

Ifs Eye Audience Serious Connections Silly Blink Blink Of An Eye

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“I want to use my connections with coaches, players, celebrities, whomever, and if I can take that friendship and use it to help someone else, I'm going to take advantage of that. I'm not going to apologize for that.”

Ifs Want I Can Helping Use Player Advantage Connections Coaches Apologizing

Author:Tim Tebow

“If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of losing love, respect and connection to others. And if you are human, in order to avoid or prevent the pain, trauma and perceived devastation of the loss, you will do anything to avoid your greatest fear from being visited on you.”

Ifs Humans Pain Order Chance Human Beings Loss Share Losing Connections Trauma Cards Chances Are Devastation Greatest Fear Love Respect Losing Love

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“The fact that I am blind is not what defines my life. It should be of no more interest than my blood type. People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.”

People Ifs Way Should Facts Interest Wonder Blood Type Connections Sight Blind Blood Type

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of the first things a young person could peg up with adults on - that is, you could know as much about Jimmy Fox as your father did.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Persons America Young Father Causes Sports Voice Numbers Rich Adults Connections Baseball Radio Foxes Jimmy Hooked Peg Metropolitan

Author:George Will

“If you want to understand any woman you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully. Stories about food show a strong connection. Wistful silences demonstrate unfinished business. The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter.”

Ifs Knows Want Firsts Stories Shows Mother Asks Strong Silence Daughter Connections Stronger Details Unfinished Whining Unfinished Business Strong Connection

Author:Anita Diament

“Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs. The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and the tales that preceded that; though as the narrator's voice recedes the connections will seem to grow more tenuous, for each age will want the tale told as if it were of its own making.”

Ifs Want Firsts Moments Stories Seems Age Grows Voice Spring Connections Tales Thread Single Word Narrators

Book:Weaveworld

Source: Weaveworld

“Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as the past is lost, or is it enough to know yes we lived then, and we are living now, and the connection must be there? Like a river hundreds of miles long exists both at its source and at its mouth, simultaneously?”

Ifs Knows Long Doe Self Matter Enough Past Reading Lost Source Mouths Rivers Connections Miles Does It Matter Old Self

Book:Foxfire: confessions of a girl gang

Source: Foxfire: confessions of a girl gang

“Will you believe me when I tell you there was kindness in his heart? His left hand didn't know what his right hand was doing. It was only that certain important connections had been burned through. If I opened up your head and ran a hot soldering iron around in your brain, I might turn you into someone like that.”

Ifs Knows Believe Heart Important Hands Might Certain Turns Left Brain Kindness Connections Hot Ran Iron Believe In Me Burned Left Hand

Book:Jesus' Son: Stories

Source: Jesus' Son: Stories

“Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.”

People Ifs Motivational Success Three Effort Quality Connections Agree Rewards Complexity Satisfying Autonomy Three Things Outliers

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands.”

Ifs World Want Giving War Hands Able Form Emotion Cutting Painting Source Connections Surface Visible Blades Razors Invaders

Author:Pablo Picasso

“When he nodded, the physician disappeared into thin air, and then a moment later, Payne felt a warm palm encompass hers. It was Vishous's un-gloved hand against her own and the connection between them eased her in ways she couldn't name. Verily, she had lost her mother . . . but if she lived through this, she still had family. On this side.”

Ifs Way Stills Moments Hands Mother Names Lost Felt Sides Air Connections Warm Physicians Palms Thin Air Vishous

Author:J.R. Ward

“But this is such a "Wheel" moment. That song rocks. The best part is where John Mayer says how our connections are permanent, how if you drift apart from someone there's always a chance you can be part of their life again. How everything comes back around again.”

Ifs Moments Song Chance Rocks Connections Permanent Wheels Mayer

Book:Waiting For You

Source: Waiting For You

“Family was even a bigger word than I imagined, wide and without limitations, if you allowed it, defying easy definition. You had family that was supposed to be family and wasn't, family that wasn't family but was, halves becoming whole, wholes splitting into two; it was possible to lack whole, honest love and connection from family in lead roles, yet to be filled to abundance by the unexpected supporting players.”

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“Most children would rather preserve the fantasy of a loving connection with their fathers and mothers, at all costs, even if it costs them their self-esteem. When you're three or seven years old, it's less frightening to think of yourself as an unlovable, disappointing screwup than to recognize the fact that you're living with a monster.”

Source: Compulsion

“When it seems impossible that a deep connection with another person could just go away instead of changing form. It seems impossible that you will one day look up and say the words "I used to date someone who lived in that building," referring to a three-year relationship. As simple as if it was a pizza place that is now a dry cleaner's. It happens. Keep walking.”

Source: How Did You Get This Number

“She dumped me for the worst reason of all. For absolutely no reason at all...I mean, if she fell in love with someone else, or I did something wrong, or I let her down in some unforgivable way...That, I'd understand, right? But instead, she said...it wasn't anything. Not a single thing. It was just me. I was nice. I was kind. We just...she didn't see the connection anymore. I think she thought I was boring. And the cruelest part is, when someone says something mean about you, you know when they're right.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Kind Mean Said Reason Nice Worst Connections Boring No Reason Broken Heart Dumped Unforgivable

Author:Brad Meltzer

“Sometimes, when she's out here alone, she can feel the pulse of something bigger, as if all things animate were beating in unison, a glory and a connection that sweeps her out of herself, out of her consciousness, so that nothing has a name, not in Latin, not in English, not in any known language.”

Ifs Feels Sometimes Names Language Consciousness Known Glory All Things Connections Bigger Latin Pulse Unison

Book:When the Killing's Done

Source: When the Killing's Done

“If only you could really use a fail-proof system to know who was worth keeping and who needed to be thrown away. It would make it so much easier to move through the world, picking and choosing what connections to make, or whether to make any at all.”

Ifs Knows World Use Moving Failing Needed Easier Connections Proof Thrown Picking And Choosing

Book:What Happened to Goodbye

Source: What Happened to Goodbye

“If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to make? What life changing relationships or passionate and lasting love affairs are lost to chance?”

“I want deeper connections with the people around me. I need to reach out more. Because not everyone leaves. Sometimes if you reach out, the person you’re trying to reach will be right there waiting.”

People Ifs Want Needs Trying Persons Sometimes Waiting Connections Deeper Reach Out

Book:So Much Closer

Source: So Much Closer

“Evangelicalism has taken the Extrovert Ideal to its logical extreme...If you don't love Jesus out loud, then it must not be real love. It's not enough to forge your own spiritual connection to the divine; it must be displayed publicly.”

Ifs Real Enough Spiritual Jesus Taken Divine Ideals Connections Extremes Loud Logical Being Real Real Love Introvert Jesus Love Extroverts Spiritual Connection

Author:Susan Cain

“When you step outside of school and have to teach yourself about life, you develop a different relationship to information. I've never been a purely linear thinker. You can see it in my rhymes. My mind is always jumping around, restless, making connections, mixing and matching ideas, rather than marching in a straight line. That's why I'm always stressing focus. My thoughts chase each other from room to room in my head if I let them, so sometimes I have to slow myself down.”

Source: Decoded (Enhanced Edition)

“Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundred of others. It's up to us to decide if those micro connections are positive or negative. But whichever we decide, it does impact the ones we deal with.”

Ifs Doe Matter Deals Hundred Negative Connections Impact Isolated Outburst

Book:Infamous: Chronicles of Nick

Source: Infamous: Chronicles of Nick

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