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“Film gives me live actors, editing, music, sound, a huge and powerful toolbox to play with. If there is a problem for me, it is that film gives me too much. There is less room for the audience to add their side of the conversation.”

Ifs Giving Play Problem Film Actors Sound Sides Rooms Powerful Audience Too Much Huge Conversation Give Me Add Editing Toolbox

Author:Dave McKean

“Of course, spending time with family is always good. I love the outdoors, so if I get a chance to go out and hike or bike around, that's always great. If I don't have time to leave, just listening to some music that I love reenergizes me and gives me that break I need to go back to whatever it is I'm doing.”

Ifs Needs Giving Courses Chance Break Listening Give Me Spending Bike Just Listen Spending Time Time To Leave

Author:Anousheh Ansari

“If I have a fundamental belief that the universe is created by God, then I also come to the belief that that universe reflects God, it gives me some knowledge of Him. Obviously, therefore, the more I know of the universe is, the more enriched my limited knowledge of God is.”

Ifs Knows Giving Universe Belief Give Me Fundamentals Knowledge Of God Limited Knowledge

Author:George Coyne

“I have lived in one house in Baltimore for nearly forty-five years. It has changed in that time, as I have - but somehow it still remains the same. No conceivable decorator's masterpiece could give me the same ease. It is as much a part of me as my two hands. If I had to leave it I'd be as certainly crippled as if I lost a leg.”

Ifs Giving Years Stills Two Hands House Lost Five Changed Give Me Remains Legs Ease Five Years Forty Masterpiece Crippled Baltimore Two Hands Decorators

Author:H. L. Mencken

“I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.”

Ifs Knows Giving I Can Science Literature Middle Terrible Accounts Give Me Bricks

Book:The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

“My aunt gave me a walkie-talkie for my birthday. She says if I'm good, she'll give me the other one next year.”

Ifs Giving Years Humor Funny Next Give Me Birthday Aunt Next Year My Birthday Talkies Walkie Talkies

Author:Steven Wright

“So if God should place me in serious perplexity, must He not give me much guidance; in places of great difficulty, much grace; in circumstances of great pressure and trial, much strength? No fear that HIs resources will prove unequal to the emergency! And His resources are mine, for He is mine, and is with me and dwells in me.”

Ifs Giving Should Grace Mines Serious Circumstances Prove Resources Give Me Difficulty Pressure Trials Guidance No Fear Emergencies Perplexity

Author:Hudson Taylor

“If people only knew what lies at the heart of my novels! What a tumult of desires these carefully written pages conceal! I sometimes have a loathing for the furious cravings that give me no peace except when I am working.”

People Ifs Giving Heart Sometimes Lying Desire Novel Written Pages Give Me Craving Furious Loathing Tumult

Book:Diary, 1928-1957

Source: Diary, 1928-1957

“I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more!”

Ifs Want Giving Littles Facts Able Sound Forget Feet Becoming Six Give Me Wake Up Aging Familiar Cards Knees Each Day Shelter Good Day Hallmark Hallmark Card

Author:Faith Hill

“I love playing real people. It's a huge challenge and responsibility which I take on board and which I relish. It also scares me to death. Give me a totally fictional character and I don't have the same sort of responsibility. If, though, I play Sigmund Freud or Robert Maxwell or whoever then there is a responsibility.”

People Ifs Giving Real Play Character Challenges Responsibility Huge Give Me Boards Scare Relish Fictional Character Maxwell

Author:David Suchet

“I wouldn't not listen to something because it was country. I usually listen to stuff that friends give me, if I admire their taste.”

Ifs Giving Country Stuff Taste Give Me Admire

Author:Albert Hammond, Jr.

“I'm not a real musician. If you give me a bass guitar and you ask me to improvise something, or even be with some musicians and follow them, I wouldn't be able to do it. And I want to change that. I want to be able to be in a group and take my guitar and play with them, without someone showing me, "Okay, you're going to do this and that," because music has always been a big part of my life.”

Ifs Want Giving Real Play Bigs Able Asks Groups Musician Okay Give Me Guitar Ask Me Bass Bass Guitar

Author:Marion Cotillard

“I didn't want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up there, it gives me some leeway to play around a little bit.”

Ifs Want Giving Littles Ideas Play Courses Bits Little Bit Musician Give Me Great Music Great Musician

Author:Fiona Apple

“If I am a son of God, nothing but God will satisfy my soul; no amount of comfort, no amount of ease, no amount of pleasure, will give me peace or rest. If I had the full cup of all the world's joys held up to me, and could drain it to the dregs, I should still remain thirsty if I had not God.”

Ifs World Giving Should Stills Soul Joy Pleasure Son Amount Comfort Give Me Gods Will My Soul Cups Ease Drains Thirsty Dregs

Author:Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy

“If anyone tells me I'm fat, I say, - That's because every time I make love to your wife, she gives me a biscuit”

Ifs Giving Wife Give Me Fats Making Love Biscuits

Author:Clement Freud

“If you are referring to the characters of The Room, each character has a different personality which you can see very clearly on the screen. If you are referring to the actors, they give me different emotions, personality which represents human behavior.”

Ifs Giving Humans Different Character Actors Rooms Emotion Personality Behavior Give Me Screens Human Behavior Referring Different Emotions

Author:Tommy Wiseau

“It's actually a good thing if you do reference checks on somebody and half the people you call say they are a micromanager and the other half say they actually give me a lot of responsibility. That's a feature not a bug.”

People Ifs Giving Half Responsibility Give Me Good Things Checks Features Bugs Other Half

Author:Keith Rabois

“I enjoy the making of the film and it's something for me to do. If nobody ever comes to my films, if people don't want to give me money to make films, that will stop me. But as long as people come all over the world and I have an audience and I have ideas for films, I will do them for as long as I enjoy the process. And I like the whole process of making a film.”

People Ifs World Want Giving Long Ideas Whole Film Process Enjoy Audience Give Me

Author:Woody Allen

“Perhaps the couple got married at 25 and now they're 45 and this is an option. And if a couple is still together, or perhaps finds its way back together, I like to say that it's forever. They belong together, it's a good fit, it's the right pairing. It almost gives me goose bumps.”

Ifs Way Giving Stills Together Forever Couple Fit Married Give Me Bumps Geese Back Together

Author:Volkmar Sigusch

“My favorite way of working is if somebody gives me a piece of music, because I'm quite limited as a player, so it's my favorite thing if somebody gives me a piece of music, and then I can write lyrics and melodies.”

Ifs Way Giving Writing I Can Pieces Player Music Is Give Me My Favorite Melody Favorites Things

Author:Sinead O'Connor

“If you want to split a bottle with a friend, then Sammy Hagar is your guy. If you want to split your friend with a bottle than give me a call.”

Ifs Want Giving Guy Give Me Bottles Splits

Author:David Lee Roth

“I was clear: "I don't want to play businessmen with bifocal glasses and cameras, so if you're going to give me an Asian bad guy to play, then I'm going to give you the baddest Asian bad guy you've ever seen, and you're not going to forget that I was in the film."”

Ifs Want Giving Play Film Guy Forget Clear Give Me Cameras Glasses Businessman Bad Guys Asian

Author:Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

“I am always going to be working on location, even if I have a 20-year career. Talk to me in 15 years and I will still be working on location. It's something I can always do better. Right now, it's not nearly where it could be, so it gives me something to work on every day.”

Ifs Giving Years Stills I Can Careers Right Now Give Me Location Talk To Me

Author:Justin Verlander

“If you really want to give me advice, do it on a Saturday afternoon between one and four o'clock, when you've got 25 seconds to do it, between plays. Don't give me advice on Monday. I know the right thing to do on Monday.”

Ifs Knows Want Giving Play Four Advice Give Me Clock Things To Do Right Thing Seconds Afternoon Saturday Monday Saturday Afternoon

Author:Alex Agase

“So what if my face is falling apart? I don't give a damn. Anyway, it gives me character. Everyone thinks that they can stay pretty forever but some come out of Beverly Hills surgeries looking scary to me.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Character Faces Fall Forever Give Me Scary Hills Damn What If Surgery Falling Apart Don't Give A Damn Beverly Hills I Don't Give A Damn

Author:Robert Redford

“If you give me the ball, you'll never see it again. Because I'll knock it out of the f*****g park.”

Ifs Giving Balls Give Me Parks

Author:CM Punk

“There are people who have energy that say don't come near me, don't get too close. There's people like Adrienne Shelley who have the energy of come over here and give me a hug and if you're around me you're going to be happy about it.”

People Ifs Giving Energy Give Me Hug Shelley

Author:Nathan Fillion

“If when I get to heaven the Lord shall say to me, Spurgeon, I want you to preach for all eternity, I would reply, Lord, give me a Bible, that is all I need.”

Ifs Want Needs Giving Heaven Lord Eternity Give Me I Want You Spurgeon

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“I don't know if it will be my big comeback, but I think it is a statement - that I am a self-sustaining, vibrant, long-term artist, and I'm not going away! And if you don't give me credit, then the musical gods will!”

Ifs Thinking Knows Giving Long Self Bigs Artist Term Give Me Musical Credit Gods Will Statements Long Term Going Away Comeback Sustaining

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.”

Ifs Men Giving Kind Results Hell Give Me Spite

Author:Elbert Hubbard

“If the biographer gives me credit for being a plodder, he will describe me justly. Anything beyond this will be too much. I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.”

Ifs Giving I Can Too Much Give Me Credit Pursuit Definite Persevere Biographers Describe Me

Author:William Carey

“O Christ, my life, possess me utterly. Take me and make a little Christ of me. If I am anything but thy father's son, 'Tis something not yet from the darkness won. Oh, give me light to live with open eyes. Oh, give me life to hope above all skies.”

Ifs Giving Littles Light Eye Father Christ Darkness Sky Son Give Me Take Me Open Eyes

Book:The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

“It's fine with me if people want to applaud between movements of a concerto. It doesn't bother me - it's part of performance experience. Sometimes when they applaud if I'm still playing it's not as good, but there's always a way around it. Actually the applause gives me a little rest and chance to stretch, too.”

People Ifs Way Want Giving Littles Stills Sometimes Chance Movement Fine Performances Give Me Bother Applause

Author:Hilary Hahn

“Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common man goes about his ordinary business. Mozart did so; and that is why I like him. Even if I did not, I should pretend to; for a taste in his music is a mark of caste among musicians, and should be worn, like a tall hat, by the amateur who wishes to pass for a true Brahmin.”

Ifs Men Giving Should Artist Wish Common Taste Musician Music Is Ordinary Give Me Mark Breathe Native Hats Tall Worn Common Man Castes I Like Him Brahmins

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“I love attention, I'm very honest about it ... [but] if I wanna wear a pink dress or a lace dress or a kilt of whatever, it's like I'm not solely doing it for attention, I'm doing it first for myself because it gives me pleasure.”

Ifs Giving Firsts Pleasure Attention Honest Give Me Dresses Lace Kilts

Author:Marc Jacobs

“If I go out with someone I need them to sit and give me a cuddle every night. If they don't, I wonder if they still love me.”

Ifs Needs Giving Stills Night Wonder Give Me Every Night

Author:Katie Price

“I went to preaching again. The sermons were not different; I did not present any new truths, and yet hundreds were converted. I would not now be placed back where I was before that blessed experience if you should give me all the world - it would be as dust in the balance.”

Ifs World Giving Should Different Would Be Balance Give Me Blessed Dust Preaching Sermons

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“There are directors, and I think this is true of all directors, it would be true if I was a director - If the actor didn't want to do what I was suggesting, I would let him do it his way, and then I would say to him, "Just give me one where you do what the director wants", and that, of course, is the take that's used.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Giving Would Be Used Courses Actors Directors Give Me Being True Suggesting

Author:Ian Mckellen

“It is a dichotomous time where the younger generation is perceived as free. But smoking pot is not being free. Taking drugs is not being free. I feel that being courteous and telling your dad, 'I'm going to have a drink' with your dad saying 'give me one too' is cool. That's being freer, happier and nicer. But having issues and saying that 'I am my own person, I am moving out Mom!' is not. Yes, if your mom tells you to move out then that's being free.”

Ifs Giving Feels Persons Moving My Own Issues Generations Mom Dad Drink Drug Give Me Smoking Pot Your Mom Being Free Your Dad Younger Generation Courteous Moving Out Smoking Pot

Author:Shahrukh Khan

“Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to be-what its Divine Author intended it to be-no longer one vast plantation for breeding human beings for the purpose of lust and bondage. But it will become a new Valley of Jehoshaphat, where all the nations of the earth will assemble together under one flag, worshipping a common God, and they will celebrate the resurrection of human freedom.”

“Sometimes I try to beat other people's achievements but on many occasions I find it's better to beat my own achievements. That can give me more satisfaction. I don't feel happy if I am comfortable. Something inside me pushes me when I get comfortable. It makes me go farther and I want to keep pushing.”

People Ifs Want Giving Feels Trying Sometimes My Own Achievement Comfortable Beats Give Me Satisfaction Occasions Pushing

Author:Ayrton Senna

“I don't put a penny's value on this life if only our Lord will give me a tiny corner in Paradise.”

Ifs Giving Values Lord Give Me Corners Tiny This Life Paradise Our Lord Pennies

Author:Camillus de Lellis

“I must be cheaper now than I was ten years ago in order to get a laugh. It's not funny now if I leave the table and give the waiter a nickel tip, which was a laugh years ago. Today I must maneuver it so that somehow I get the waiter to give me a nickel tip.”

Ifs Giving Years Today Order Laughing Ten Years Ago Give Me Tables Cheaper Waiter Nickels

Author:Jack Benny

“I believe in life. I know that life comes in at your heart and it doesn't matter if you're an actor, a filmmaker or a gentleman on the street, it comes at you. What Scientology gives me is the tools to deal with that, to better enjoy my life and to be able to contribute more.”

Ifs Knows Giving Believe Heart Matter Able Actors I Believe Enjoy Deals Streets Tools Give Me I Believe In Gentleman Filmmaker Scientology

Author:Tom Cruise

“I got mugged. And they got my knapsack with my comedy notebook in it. So if anybody see two cholos bombing at the Funny Bone chain, that would be them. Just give me a jingle.”

Ifs Giving Two Would Be Comedy Give Me Bones Chains Notebook Bombing Jingles Funny Bones

Author:Janeane Garofalo

“I think if I was not in love, I would probably let myself go faster. Love gives me the vanity to continue.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Give Me Vanity Faster

Author:Salma Hayek

“My brother is the one that gives me the strength - if he's not strong, I'm not.”

Ifs Giving Strong Brother Give Me My Brother Not Strong Give Me Strength

Author:Kelly Osbourne

“No one smokes because they like the way it tastes. If we did, they'd make cigarette-flavored cookies, candy, ice cream. What is this? Marlboro fudge with nuts? Give me a scoop of that, willya? She's gonna have the Menthol Swirl with the Camel chip.”

Ifs Way Giving Taste Give Me Ice Smoke Nuts Cigarette Cream Candy Ice Cream Chips Cookies Camels Swirls Fudge

Author:Kevin Pollak

“I used to live at the Cecil Hotel, which was next door to Minton's [Playhouse]. We used to jam just about every night when we were off. Lester [Young], Don Byas and myself - we would meet there all the time and like, exchange ideas. It wasn't a battle, or anything. We were all friends. Most of the guys around then knew where I lived. If someone came in Minton's and started to play - well, they'd give me a ring, or come up and call me down. Either I'd take my horn down, or I'd go down and listen. Those were good days. Had a lot of fun then.”

Ifs Giving Wells Ideas Play Young Used Night Guy Next Fun Doors Battle Give Me Down And Come Up Rings Hotel Call Me Every Night Horns Good Day Jam Lester Young

Author:Ben Webster

“When my mother would make me sandwiches for school - zucchini and eggs, pepper and eggs, everything was with eggs - the oil would drip out of the bag. She didn't care if I lost the sandwich - she wanted that brown bag back. She used to give me artichoke sandwiches. You have no idea how embarrassing it is to sit in the schoolyard eating an artichoke with a piece of bread. A lot of kids didn't know what it was, they'd say, Look at that guy eating flowers!”

Ifs Knows Giving Looks Ideas Care Kids Wanted School Used Mother Guy Lost Pieces Flower Eating Give Me Oil Bread No Idea Brown Bags Eggs Embarrassing Sandwiches That Guy Peppers Artichokes Zucchini

Author:Pat Cooper