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“I love the stage. I'm always sniffing around to see if there's something I can squidge in quickly.”

“It's television. The reality of it is, if you go on the boards and people are saying, "I saw that coming," or "This is lame," or "I can't believe they're doing this again..." Having been one of those people myself, I know better, and try to avoid it.”

People Ifs Knows Trying Believe I Can Reality Saws Television Goes On Boards Lame

Author:Damon Lindelof

“I can sort of will that stuff to happen to me if I put myself in the right headspace. Then I can actually get to a space where it won't just be one song that comes through, but a series of them.”

Ifs I Can Happens Song Stuff Space Series

Author:Ryan Adams

“I used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn't operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it's actually also true - if I want to appear in public I want to look my best. If I'm onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.”

Ifs Want Looks Kind I Can Reason Used Clothes Jokes Contemporary Suits Decent Motor Trousers

Author:Bill Nighy

“Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.”

Ifs I Can Glad Stealing Borrowed Plagiarism

Book:Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising his essays, journey into Italy, and letters

Source: Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising his essays, journey into Italy, and letters

“Why should i remember anything if i can just look it up?”

Ifs Should Looks I Can Remember Should I

Author:Albert Einstein

“mine, adj. Belonging to me if I can hold or seize it.”

Ifs I Can Mines Belonging

Book:The Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Devil's Dictionary

“If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will always exaggerate. Then I can exaggerate his exaggeration, and my account of the thing will be the most impressive.”

Ifs Men I Can Eye Accounts Impressive Exaggeration Imposing Copying

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is not in itself something to rejoice at greatly. But I also say that I can see more in the knowledge that America is going to win a right to be at the conference table when the terms of peace are discussed. . . . It would have been a tragedy for mankind if America had not been there, and there with all her influence and power.”

Ifs Men World Has Beens I Can Lasts America Winning Given Term Influence Mankind Tragedy Tables Rejoice Conferences Influence And Power

Author:David Lloyd George

“My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in the past, I shall live differently, and living differently does not mean living with less attention to the things that make life gracious and pleasant or with less enjoyment of things of the mind.”

Ifs Mind Mean Doe I Can Past Attention Enjoyment Pleasant Gracious Miscellaneous

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“What I achieve the first day can be perfectly valid, but it is not satisfying. If I can go that far spontaneously, then I must shed that result as an old skin and inquire further into the unknown, or at least the not-yet-known-to-myself.”

Ifs Firsts I Can Results Known Achieve Skins Satisfying Shed

Author:Pablo Picasso

“If you actually are a doctor and admitted it, you'd say, 'I don't cure a huge percentage, I don't have a 50 percent cure rate ... but I can have a 100 percent compassion rate'.”

Ifs I Can Compassion Huge Percent Doctors Rate Cures Percentages

Author:Patch Adams

“I can promise you. If you work 12 hours, I will work for 13. If you work 14 hours, I will work for 15 hours. Why? Because I am not a ‘pradhan mantri’, but a ‘pradhan sevak’.”

Ifs I Can Hours Powerful Promise

Author:Narendra Modi

“I don't know if I can convey the postman as I feel him... Unfortunately he cannot pose, and a painting demands an intelligent model.”

Ifs Knows Feels I Can Painting Demand Models Intelligent Postman

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.”

Ifs Men Said I Can Interest One Thing Painting Pity

Author:Claude Monet

“When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can't think any more.”

Ifs Thinking I Can Light Seems Dark Dying

Author:Claude Monet

“I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.”

Ifs Feels I Can Order Forget Painting Succeed Conveying Order To Succeed

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“In front of the model I work with the same will to reproduce truth as if I were making a portrait. I do not correct nature, I incorporate myself into it; it directs me. I can only work with a model. The sight of human forms nourishes and comforts me.”

Ifs Humans I Can Form Fronts Comfort Models Sight Portraits Human Form

Author:Auguste Rodin

“I truly believe that I can be president of the US if I really want to.”

Ifs Want Believe I Can President

Author:Will Smith

“I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I can concentrate more.”

Ifs Persons I Can Lines Silence Drawing Noise

Book:David Hockney

Source: David Hockney

“If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a teacher.”

Ifs Thinking Feels I Can Done Teacher Teaching

Author:W. Eugene Smith

“If I have accomplished anything good, then it's mainly because I've been driven by the need to know whether I can accomplish things I'm not sure I have the capacity for.”

Ifs Knows Needs I Can Capacity Accomplish Driven Accomplishment Not Sure Accomplished

Author:Vaclav Havel

“I can talk about humility, but I'm not humble. I mean, if you say, I'm humble, you've just contradicted yourself. But I'm trying to be, man, I'm trying so hard.”

Ifs Men Trying Mean I Can Hard Humility Humble Trying So Hard

Author:Mike Tyson

“The biggest lie in choosing is, "I can't." That is simply not true. We can do anything we want If we don't do something, it is because we have committed our time, energy and resources somewhere else.”

Ifs Want I Can Lying Choices Energy Can Do Resources Committed Our Time Somewhere Else

Author:Roger Delano Hinkins

“Then I saw Keanu Reeves in 'Much Ado About Nothing' and I know if he can do it, I can do it too.”

Ifs Knows I Can Can Do Saws I Can Do It

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“If Mrs Merkel wants to wear Westwood, I can promise that I will design clothes for her that will make her look chic, refined and influential.”

Ifs Want Looks I Can Design Promise Clothes Influential Refined Chic

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“I'm dealing with the most important things there are: life and nature. If this doesn't work, if this doesn't sustain me, I can't go back to nature. I'm right there. There's nowhere to go, and that frightens me.”

Ifs I Can Important Importance Important Things Nowhere To Go

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“Everyone has a right to an opinion. I can arrive in England and express my opinion. If criticism were ferocious and without intellectual objectivity they should show me the way to their airport. It is important to have an opinion and not be afraid to express it, knowing there will be criticism.”

Ifs Way Should I Can Important Shows Opinion Knowing Intellectual Criticism England Show Me Airports Objectivity

Author:Jose Mourinho

“The film's title star, Christian Bale, told me in June that he'd signed a multi-picture contract. When I caught up with Batman Begins ... All I can tell you is, we're talking. There was quite an air of secrecy around the development of 'Batman Begins,' and there will be even more around the development of another film, if they move forward.”

Ifs I Can Christian Film Moving Stars Talking Air Development Caught Moving Forward Titles Contracts Caught Up Secrecy June

Author:Christopher Nolan

“Anything that keeps you happy and writing is part of my writing ritual: I like music, so I tend to have it playing in the background. But if I'm interested, I can write in an airport waiting areas.”

Ifs Writing I Can Waiting Areas Backgrounds Ritual Airports

Author:Neil Gaiman

“If I know I have everything prepared for when I get killed by a stalker, then I can go to sleep.”

Ifs Knows I Can Sleep Prepared Killing Going To Sleep

Author:Christina Ricci

“I can't work without it [music]. And it has to be the right kind, because if it's not then I get into a bad mood. I work with a remote so that I can change CDs instantly if I need to.”

Ifs Needs Kind I Can Mood Cds Bad Mood

Author:Cindy Sherman

“I can't tell you the number of times people have told me if I just lost 10kg, I could go much further in my career. But I'm determined to show them - and other average-size women - it is doable and possible.”

People Ifs I Can Shows Lost Numbers Careers Average Size Determined

Author:Ricki-Lee Coulter

“Truth is a pursuit, it's a quest. And proof is certainly in the pudding in this particular instance, because the film, and the evidence accumulated in making the film, led to this man's release from prison. And that's hardly ever happened, if it's happened at all, in any other film that I can think of.”

Ifs Thinking Men I Can Film Happened Particular Truth Is Evidence Prison Proof Pursuit Instance Release Quests Pudding

Author:Errol Morris

“Once I started working, it became better and better. I really felt that I was back into the work. I was glad I was alive. Just being able to draw and paint - even if I can't walk - is worth living for.”

Ifs I Can Able Felt Walks Alive Gratitude Draws Paint Glad Working It Just Being Worth Living

Author:John Newman

“I can't stand it when Lewis Hamilton or anyone else, is made out to be a godlike character. If Lewis was driving for Red Bull I'm sure he would race extremely well, but he'd be battling for points.”

Ifs Wells Made I Can Character Race Red Driving Bulls Hamilton Godlike Red Bull

Author:David Coulthard

“If I can give you any advice, it's this: every hour that you spend sat on the couch doing nothing, put it to good use, because when you have kids, an hour is like a lifetime.”

Ifs Giving I Can Use Kids Hours Advice Lifetime Sat Doing Nothing Couches

Author:Noel Gallagher

“Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.”

“I feel more strongly than ever about this. I would like the professional game freed of golf carts. Golf is a physical game. If we are playing competitive professional golf, we should walk. When I can't walk 18 holes, I'll pack it in.”

Ifs Feels Should I Can Games Walks Golf Holes Packs Carts Golf Carts

Author:Arnold Palmer

“For there is one thing I can safely say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to keep company long. Love will not be constrained by mastery; when mastery comes, the God of love at once beats his wings, and farewell he is gone. Love is a thing as free as any spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men, if I shall tell the truth.”

Ifs Men Love Long I Can Spirit Desire Love Is Company Liberty Gone One Thing Beats Wings Slave Bounds Telling The Truth Inspirational Love Mastery Farewell One Love Long Love Gone Love

Book:The Canterbury tales

Source: The Canterbury tales

“What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.”

Ifs Thinking Should Children Long I Can Book Hard Asks Be Good Ask Me Children's Books

Author:Astrid Lindgren

“If you want to know what to do with a thief that you may find stealing, I say kill him on the spot, and never suffer him to commit another iniquity. I will prove by my works whether I can mete out justice to such persons, or not. I would consider it just as much my duty to do that, as to baptize a man for the remission of his sins.”

Ifs Knows Men Want May Persons I Can Suffering Justice Sin Duty Prove Stealing Commit Spots Thieves Iniquity Remission

Author:Brigham Young

“I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.”

Ifs Men I Can Helping Ready Brave Help Me Brave Man

Author:Carter G. Woodson

“If I can't find a theme, I can't make a film anyone else will feel. I can't laugh at intellectual humor. I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.”

Ifs Feels Heart I Can Enough Stories Film Fun Laughing Intellectual Theme Corny

Author:Walt Disney

“Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp.”

Ifs I Can Pieces Stuck Clay Disneyland

Author:Walt Disney

“You all know I have terminal cancer—and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress induces its spread and induces its activity. Stress may even bring it on. Yet stress is the fuel of the activist. This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life. I know I can't have both very long. The trade-offs are all right with me. But if the legacy we helped give Oregon and which made it twinkle from afar—if it goes, then I guess I wouldn't want to live in Oregon anyhow.”

Ifs Knows Want Giving May Long Made I Can Activity Stress Trade Cancer Spread Made It Legacy Fuel Love Life Activist Afar Terminal Oregon Trade Offs Terminal Cancer

Author:Tom McCall

“The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit enough, I shall be a saint.”

Ifs Years I Can States Enough Humility Becoming Ideals Saint Meekness Old Year Decrepit

Book:Wild Talents

Source: Wild Talents

“I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.”

Ifs Knows Love Giving Should Wells I Can Enough Evil Learning Sincere Vengeance Evil Man Good Against Evil Lesser Evil

Book:Gandhi on Non-violence

Source: Gandhi on Non-violence

“If I can be serious now, and I have the feeling I can.”

Ifs I Can Feelings Serious

Author:David Letterman

“I dont believe in labels. I want to do the best I can, all the time. I want to be progressive without getting both feet off the ground at the same time. I want to be prudent without having my mind closed to anything that is new or different. I have often said that I was proud that I was a free man first and an American second, and a public servant third and a Democrat fourth, in that order, and I guess as a Democrat, if I had to takeplace a label on myself, I would want to be a progressive who is prudent.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964

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