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“The first thing I do when I come home is check the refrigerator for cats because I'm convinced that if one dies, my husband will hide it in there because I don't cook and so I won't see it. I do drink Cokes, though ,so technically he should hide the corpse in the oven. And now I need to start checking the oven.”

Ifs Needs Should Firsts Home Dies Drink Husband Cat Convinced Checks Cooks My Husband Coming Home Corpses Coke Refrigerators Ovens

Author:Jenny Lawson

“I was involved in some of the very first meetings that created the maps that showed what would happen if you had a Category 1, 2 or 3 hurricane in New York.”

Ifs Firsts Happens New York Involved Meetings Maps Categories Hurricanes

Author:Joe Lhota

“Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that; I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes.”

Ifs Knows Firsts I Can Asks Directors Hollywood Ask Me Tarantino Hollywood Movies

Author:Melanie Laurent

“What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?”

Ifs Firsts Jobs Kings Refuse Ministers Prime Prime Minister

Author:Lord Mountbatten

“The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way.”

Ifs Way Years Firsts Film Cutting Seeing Conversation Machines Finals If I Could Editing Edited Old Ways Avid

Author:Walter Murch

“I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.”

Ifs Firsts Bigs Remember Growing Up Growing Happened Heard Subjects Jokes Jersey

Author:Oscar Nunez

“I need to say how I feel.aIf you were a political person before, and you just happened into a movie, to stop being a political person makes no sense. I always laugh and say, 'Dudes, if I have to choose, I'm a political person first. I would never do another movie again and be completely happy.' I need to say how I feel.”

Ifs Needs Feels Firsts Persons Political Laughing Happened

Author:Kathy Najimy

“I don't know if I'm an impressionist or an expressionist. You can call me an American first... I've been labeled doing neimanism, so that's what it is, I guess.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Style Call Me Impressionists

Author:LeRoy Neiman

“Hopefully, if I have done my job right, people will want to know and see more! There is certainly plenty more to tell. I would love to be part of that process of expanding on the lore that makes up Warcraft, but it will all depend on what you, the audience, think of our first film!”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Want Firsts Done Jobs Film Process Audience Depends Plenty Hopefully Expanding

Author:Duncan Jones

“If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad... I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.”

Ifs Feels Firsts Believe Problem I Believe Stuff Dad Decided My Dad Sober

Author:Jack Osbourne

“Well, first you have to love writing. A lot of authors love having written. But I enjoy the actual writing. Beside that, I think the main reason I can be so prolific is the huge amount of planning I do before I start to write. I do a very complete, chapter-by-chapter outline of every book I write. When I sit down to write, I already know everything that's going to happen in the book. This means I've done all the important thinking, and I can relax and enjoy the writing. I could never write so many books if I didn't outline them first.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Firsts Wells Mean I Can Important Book Reason Done Happens Enjoy Written Huge Amount Planning Relax Chapters Outlines

Author:R. L. Stine

“If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.”

Ifs Feels Firsts Long Enough Happens Kids Wanted Praying Long Time Proof Christmas First Love Christmas Day

Author:Robbie Fowler

“If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or bad - you're more likely to see that invisible thing that is invisible for the first few days in any new writing. We just can't know what all is in a sentence until there are several sentences to follow it. Pages of writing need more pages in order to be known, chapters need more chapters.”

Ifs Knows Needs Writing Firsts Order Waiting Hours Known Fate Written Pages Sentences Invisible Chapters Invisible Things

Author:Lynda Barry

“When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New York City. It was my first real love.”

Ifs Firsts Said Real Cities New York Teenager New York City Real Love

Author:Aleksa Palladino

“My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns. If you want to understand Muslims, I argued, you need to understand the role of Islam in their lives. Now that seems obvious.”

Ifs Want Needs Trying Firsts Two Shows Seems Political Careers Roles Concern Islam Obvious Divides Relevant Before And After

Author:Daniel Pipes

“First of all, Greece won't go down. We're talking about a country that is capable of making change. Europe will not allow the destabilization of the 27-country euro zone. But if there were no action, then markets would start becoming jittery about other countries - and not only Spain and Portugal, but other countries in the European Union.”

Ifs Firsts Country Action Talking Becoming Capable Europe Unions Zone Other Countries Spain Greece Making Changes European Union Euro Portugal

Author:George Papandreou

“I'd love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don't have the money. If I were Bill Gates or Paul Allen, the first thing I would do is build a museum.”

Ifs Firsts New York Bills London Paris Gates Museums

Author:Jean Pigozzi

“If you'll think about various series you've read, can you think of any instance in which, say, the tenth volume of the series is notably better than the first nine? I can't.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts I Can Series Various Nine Instance Volume

Author:Thomas Perry

“If I had to choose criteria, for me, it's about first the director. I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging. After the director it's the character and the story. That's the deal for me.”

Ifs Want Firsts Character Stories Challenges Deals Directors Criteria

Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“I've gotten to work with amazing people. I would say usually we get to a point before we get into the studio where there isn't that sense of anxiety or nervousness of who they are because I don't think it would be as productive in the studio if that was the case. But maybe meeting someone like Neil Young for the first time made me anxious.”

People Ifs Thinking Firsts Made Would Be Young Cases Anxiety First Time Meetings Studios Productive Anxious Nervousness Amazing People Meeting Someone

Author:Rick Rubin

“I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.”

Ifs Firsts Home House Argument Thirds Family And Friends Second Chance God First

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.”

People Ifs Firsts Community Talking Gay Insane Gay Marriage Fascists Reactionaries Gay Community

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost. I don't really need to do that, and I thought if I could do something for sport in Scotland, that would be really fulfilling.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Helping Feelings Would Be Sports Politician If I Could Fulfilling Scotland

Author:Gordon Strachan

“In Castling, the King must be moved first, or before the Rook is quitted. If the Rook be quitted before the King is touched, the opposing player may demand that the move of the Rook shall stand without the Castling being completed.”

Ifs Firsts May Moving Player Kings Demand Moved Touched Opposing

Author:Howard Staunton

“Who do you think of first in the morning? Good manipulators do it in the dream plane. The morning practice of meditation increases the aura to ward of negative energy. Meditate before bed if you are being attacked psychically.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Dream Energy Practice Morning Meditation Bed Negative Increase Planes Good Man Auras Negative Energy Manipulator

Author:Frederick Lenz

“They can get married. They can marry a man if they're a woman. Or they can marry a woman if they're a man... there are no special rights for people based upon your sex practices. There's no special rights based upon what you do in your sex life. You're an American citizen first and foremost and that's it.”

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Author:Michele Bachmann

“It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious incubation which could not be hurried and was if anything impeded by deliberate thinking.... Having, by a time of very intense concentration, planted the problem in my subconsciousness, it would germinate underground until, suddenly, the solution emerged with a blinding clarity, so that it only remained to write down what happened as if in a revelation.”

“The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research.”

Ifs Firsts I Can Character Practice Knowing Circumstances Research Connections Manifest

Author:Joshua Leonard

“It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.”

Ifs Men Firsts Age Church Risk Streets Happenings Ordinary Sick Accidents Going Out Wounded Ordinary Man

Author:Pope Francis

“Morrissey wrote to me and said, I have a song for you and if we release it as a single, you'll be on the charts for the first time since 1972, I said, what time, where?”

Ifs Firsts Said Song First Time Release

Author:Nancy Sinatra

“I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.”

Ifs Mind Firsts Made Waiting Decision Thought Provoking Wrong Things Decisions Made

Book:My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

“If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.”

Ifs Firsts Offense Counseling

Author:Alan Thicke

“Above all, you ask if the God of Christians forgives those who do not believe and who do not seek faith. Given the premise, and this is fundamental, that the mercy of God is limitless for those who turn to him with a sincere and contrite heart, the issue for the unbeliever lies in obeying his or her conscience.”

Ifs Firsts Believe Heart Christian Lying Turns Asks Limits Conscience Mercy Fundamentals Forgiving Ask Me Sincere Believe In God Premises Obeying Mercy Of God

Author:Pope Francis

“I first became interested in style when I was 16 and I had my first couple of gigs. I realised I couldn't look like the people I was performing to. Not in a condescending way, but just that it would be weird if I was wearing exactly what someone in the crowd was wearing.”

People Ifs Way Firsts Looks Would Be Style Couple Crowds Performing Gigs Realised Condescending

Author:Tinie Tempah

“I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Firsts Made Care Evil Alive Media Perception Music Is Interviews Trickery Necessary Evil

Author:Jack White

“If you fail the first time that's just a chance to start over again.”

Ifs Firsts Chance Failing First Time Starting Over

Author:Lenny Wilkens

“If you're honest with yourself, that's the first step in maturing and becoming a better person. If you suppress your shortcomings and fears, they will follow you until the day you die. It was difficult, but I finally admitted to myself that I made mistakes.”

“If CEOs insist that middle class Americans compete with cheap foreign labor, why not outsource the jobs of CEOs? If business is all about cost, they should be the first to volunteer.”

Ifs Should Firsts Jobs Class Middle Cost Labor Middle Class Why Not Volunteer Ceo

Author:Lou Dobbs

“If you love yourself first, you will find your Valentine much quicker!”

Ifs Firsts Love You Love Yourself Valentine Valentine's Day Love Yourself First

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I would care to know less, and know to care more.I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.I'd run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.I'd do more hugging, and less tugging.I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.I'd build self esteem first, and the house later.I'd teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.”

“... for our sake loosing within Himself the bonds of bodily birth, He granted us through spiritual birth, according to our own volition, power to become children of God instead of children of flesh and blood if we have faith in His Name (cf. Jn. 1:12-13). For the Savior the sequence was, first of all, incarnation and bodily birth for my sake; and so thereupon the birth in the Spirit through baptism, originally spurned by Adam, for the sake of my salvation and restoration by grace, or, to describe it even more vividly, my very remaking.”

“You just don't get funding to go out and find God. Even if you did, you'd have to first define what you mean by 'God.”

Ifs Firsts Mean Funding

Author:Stephen LaBerge

“On my first date, my boyfriend asked me if I wanted to eat a la carte, and I said that I would prefer to stay inside!”

Ifs Firsts Said Wanted My Boyfriend First Date

Author:Cristin Milioti

“I guess the big thing is that I don't buy anything first-hand. It's a personal policy I have for all sorts of reasons. If you research to the textile industry yourself, you'll know why. I came to it personally.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Reason Hands Bigs Policy Industry Research Big Things Textiles

Author:Ezra Miller

“Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn't work out how I hoped, oh well, there's another notch on my experience belt.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Facts Feelings Regret Work Out Belts Pointless Oh Well Notches

Author:Isaac Marion

“Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.”

Ifs Life Firsts Time First Time Second Chance Mans Search For Meaning

Author:Viktor E. Frankl

“I've worked with actors who treat the first two takes like rehearsals. And that's okay. If the camera is on you and we're doing a scene where I'm off camera, I'm treating that as a rehearsal.”

Ifs Firsts Two Actors Scene Okay Treats Cameras Rehearsal

Author:Alfred Molina

“The first time I played a PGA Tour event at Tucson was 1975. I came off the course on Sunday feeling very good about myself. I'd finished at even par, and I knew I could play even better if I worked at it.”

Ifs Firsts Play Feelings Courses Events First Time Very Good Finished Sunday Tucson

Author:Gary McCord

“I was about seven or eight years old when I first heard West Side Story, and it had a huge impact on me. If you look at the elements of that record, it contains many of the things I enjoy doing today.”

Ifs Years Firsts Looks Stories Today Enjoy Sides Records Heard Huge Elements Impact West Seven Eight West Side West Side Story

Author:Steve Vai

“If you'd like to meet some fully realized characters while learning some specifics of Zimbabwe's postcolonial struggles, as I did, you're likely to come away with a vague feeling of dissatisfaction. If you're willing to settle for first-rate writing and provocative meditations on memory, corruption and loss, they are all here in abundance.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Character Feelings Memories Loss Struggle Meditation Willing Rate Corruption Settling Abundance Vague Dissatisfaction Provocative Zimbabwe Specifics

Author:Jabari Asim

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