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“How I love to get a letter! I can think of nothing better Than perusing an epistolary item. But deep is my despondence, For I've found that correspondence Means that if you want to get 'em, You must write 'em!”

Ifs Thinking Want Writing Mean I Can Found Letters Ems Items Correspondence

Author:Richard Armour

“You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight.”

Ifs Thinking Way Writing I Can Simple What If

Book:Islands in the stream

Source: Islands in the stream

“I think I fully commit myself to any role to the extent to which I can. In other words there's some roles that maybe it's just not there, in other words on the page. You know, I mean your job is you need to play the governor and that's what you do. I mean I'm not going to stay up all night if I'm playing a functional role. And I've played a couple of functional roles. And so I'm not going to do anything other, look he's a functional guy. He says hey mister, you forgot your hat.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Needs Looks Mean I Can Play Jobs Night Guy Roles Couple Pages Commit Hey Hats Governors All Night Up All Night

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“You can't have a Russian household without vodka. It's just something to wash everything down with. I can't remember a time when I didn't drink vodka, either in Russia or here. I don't think there's ever a wrong time to start drinking it. My ancestors drank it, and if I ever have any children, they'll be drinking it.”

Ifs Thinking Children I Can Remember Drink Drinking Russia Ancestor Household Drank Vodka Wrong Time

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“I sometimes get in the car [and] jump all around hunting for a sample, and then I can get really annoying if anyone's in the car with me. But if I'm actually listening to music, I have a pretty solid attention span.”

Ifs I Can Sometimes Attention Car Listening Annoying Hunting Listening To Music Get Real Sample Attention Span

Author:Girl Talk

“I love working with the best directors in the world and great material. If I get an opportunity to do that, I'm going to do it. On the other hand, if something doesn't really hold a candle, I'm going to put my efforts where I can be the most effective.”

Ifs World I Can Hands Opportunity Effort Materials Directors Candle

Author:Daryl Hannah

“If you're talking about musically, I think I understand just a little bit more about things that were mostly intuited back then - how certain timings and tones work, so I can be a little more analytical about things now.”

Ifs Thinking Littles I Can Certain Bits Talking Little Bit Tone Timing

Author:David First

“I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes, and a melody, a vocal melody - if it works with that, then I feel it's written and there's something there.”

Ifs Feels Stills I Can Song Written Beats Rhythm Melody Chords Vocal

Author:David Byrne

“I do have fantasies of buying a helicopter and a lot of machine guns, but I don't know if I can do that. I'd like to have a lot of weapons, grenades and things. And I want to have a solar energy machine. And I want to have a sunken garden with a glass roof. I guess that's about it for now. I have a few other wants but I can't remember them.”

Ifs Knows Want I Can Remember Energy Can Do Fantasy Weapons Gun Garden Machines Glasses Buying Roof Helicopters Grenade Machine Guns Solar Energy

Author:Debbie Harry

“I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow and I can't relive yesterday but I live in the moment if I can.”

Ifs Knows I Can Moments Happens Tomorrow Yesterday Live In The Moment

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“Even if a movie's not a hit, it still has to have something to do with the big thing, which is the stand-up. It pays the most, first of all. It's the thing that I can do at a high, high level. Amongst the best.”

Ifs Firsts Stills I Can Bigs Can Do Levels Pay Big Things High Level

Author:Scott Raab

“I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.”

Ifs Should Has Beens I Can Ends Age Turns Mistake Accepting Mankind Stupid Nervous Shells Hook Pastries Nervousness Stupid Mistake

Author:Anton Chekhov

“My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.”

People Ifs World Way Want Looks I Can Illusion Changing The World Can't Change Transmit

Author:Antoni Tapies

“If I can't be beautiful, I'd rather just die”

Ifs I Can Beautiful Dies

Author:Jeffree Star

“Father, I am from a different egg than your other children. Think of me as a duckling raised by hens. I am not a domestic bird destined to spend his life in a chicken coop. the water that scares you rejuvenates me. For unlike you I can swim, and swim I shall. The ocean is my homeland. If you are with me, come to the ocean. If not, stop interfering with me and go back to the chicken coop.”

Ifs Thinking Children I Can Different Father Water Like You Ocean Bird Raised Eggs Chickens Swim Scare Interfere Destined Homeland Think Of Me Hens Ducklings

Author:Elif Safak

“Nature is my religion. And my desire...my ambition...the great goal I wish to achieve is to take my readers with me into the heart of this Nature. I love it, and I feel that they must love it......if I can only get the two acquainted.”

Ifs Feels Heart I Can Two Desire Wish Goal Achieve Reader Ambition My Ambition

Author:James Oliver Curwood

“The short-term vision is: I research on something which I can use tomorrow, and for some politicians it is even better if it's today. But if you do this, you can only do targeted research. If you only do targeted research, you lose the side-routes.”

Ifs I Can Use Today Sides Term Loses Vision Tomorrow Politician Research Routes Short Term

Author:Rolf-Dieter Heuer

“I love any kind of acting, so if I could focus on becoming the best actor I can strictly on my voice, I would love that.”

Ifs Kind I Can Actors Voice Acting Focus Becoming If I Could Becoming The Best

Author:Jennifer Stone

“SELF-DISCIPLINE, more than any other personal quality I can think of, is the one thing that separates successful people from the unsuccessful. Think of all it encompasses: honoring commitments, promises and deadlines, keeping your life on schedule, being willing to go the extra mile... Self-discipline is essential to success. The alternative is a life ruled by emotions, and none of us can afford that if we're going to fulfill our purpose and realize our potential.”

“Memories seem to surface in no particular order, with no time attached. Yesterday can seem as distant as last year. My life now consists of fragments where some are so blinding in their intensity that they make everything else indistinguishable. It feels as if my existence was extinguished in a flash, and afterwards my universe became incomprehensible. I want to remember everything. But perhaps I need to give it more time. Allow myself some rest. Distance myself a little, to see if I can make out a pattern. And face the truth about what is really there.”

“I can move objects with my mind, if I use my hands.”

Ifs Mind I Can Use Hands Moving Objects

Author:Demetri Martin

“You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.”

People Ifs I Can Asks Poor Car Coaches Ask Me Poor People

Author:Haile Gebrselassie

“I can scarcely fancy myself to ask a superior to publish a volume of my verse and I own that humanly there is very little likelihood of that ever coming to pass. And to be sure if I chose to look at things on one side and not the other I could of course regret this bitterly. But there is more peace and it isthe holier lot to be unknown than to be known.”

Ifs Looks Littles I Can Courses Asks Sides Known Regret Superiors Fancy Verses Volume Publish Likelihood

Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins

“If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.”

Ifs I Can Faces Jokes Medieval Accusers Medieval Times

Author:Lance Armstrong

“I go through the text making sure I haven't used any big words. If I find any fancy adjectives have crept in, I replace them with small words like 'nice' and 'big'. I've liked these words ever since I was told not to use them in English class at school. After that, I check that the sentences are short so as people won't get confused and I shorten all the chapters so they won't get bored. I can't read anything complicated these days, my attention span is too short. Everyone else probably feels the same.”

“If you’re chopping and changing the team you don’t get that word I can’t pronounce beginning with ‘C’.”

Ifs I Can Team Chopping

Author:Paul Merson

“If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.”

Ifs I Can Plans

Author:Frank Gehry

“I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates. I had a poor year, but even if I had hit .350, this would have been my last year. I was full of aches an pains and it had become a chore for me to play. When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.”

Ifs Feels Years Has Beens I Can Play Pain Lasts Games Fun Poor Stage Produce Baseball Clubs Managers Last Year Ache Teammate Chores

Author:Joe DiMaggio

“I think too much is known about me already. I think biographical information can get in the way of the reading experience. The interchange between the reader and the work. For example, I know far too much about Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut. Because I know as much as I do about their personal lives, I can't read their work without this interjecting itself. So if I had it to do over, I'd probably go the way of J.D. Salinger or Thomas Pynchon. And just stay out of it altogether and let all the focus be on the work itself and not on me.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way I Can Reading Known Too Much Focus Information Example Reader Personal Life Interchange Salinger Reading Experience

Author:Tom Robbins

“When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can't help wondering if the day may yet come when the only thing that can save this country is a military coup.”

Ifs May I Can Country Helping Wonder Media Military Politician Educator Coups

Author:Thomas Sowell

“If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always seem to get people to sing with me.”

People Ifs I Can Seems Song Audience Talent Right Time

Author:Pete Seeger

“I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! However, if I must suffer, I will endeavour to suffer in silence. There is certainly a great defect in my mind my wayward heart creates its own misery Why I am made thus I cannot tell; and, till I can form some idea of the whole of my existence, I must be content to weep and dance like a child long for a toy, and be tired of it as soon as I get it.”

Ifs Mind Heart Children Long Made I Can Ideas Whole Form Suffering Existence Silence Strange Weakness Tired Misery Resolution Toys Defects Compounds Endeavour

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“I can fully appreciate the fury and anger that a person can feel when put through a humiliating experience by a cop, but I would recommend strongly that a person maintain his cool, and in no circumstances lose his temper. If you lose your temper, you are playing right into the cop's hands.”

Ifs Feels Persons I Can Hands Loses Circumstances Appreciate Temper Cop Fury Humiliating

Author:William Powell

“I'd hate it if everyone in the world liked me, my music and what I wore. It'd make it boring, and I wouldn't have anything to work towards. It's not to everyone's taste, but I can only be me.”

Ifs World I Can Hate Taste Boring

Author:Jessie J

“If I've learnt one thing, it's that I need to surround myself with people who want to know the real Pete Wentz, not some myth they've concocted from a bunch of press clippings. I can open the door a centimetre wide, and some people think I'm showing them the whole room. But all they're getting is a glimpse. That's all I want to show most people.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Want Needs I Can Real Whole Shows Rooms Doors One Thing Presses Wide Myth Bunch Surround Glimpse

Author:Pete Wentz

“Expression, sentiment, truth to nature, are essential: but all those are not enough. I never care to look at a picture again, if it be ill composed; and if well composed I can hardly leave off looking at it.”

Ifs Wells Looks I Can Enough Care Expression Essentials Ill Sentiments

Book:Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation: Of invention formal. Of invention spiritual

Source: Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation: Of invention formal. Of invention spiritual

“I can't believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that's what it takes to sail you home.”

Ifs Believe I Can Home Cry Thousand Flying Sail

Author:Tori Amos

“You've got to remember, the older you get the slower you get. I've seen a lot of players get old ... if I can have a good season in 1972 and come back with another good one, well, that's different. I might not quit. But two bad ones back to back and staying home would be written on the wall.”

Ifs Wells I Can Two Different Home Might Would Be Remember Player Written Wall Seasons Quitting Staying

Author:Hank Aaron

“I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That's very discouraging. I hate the book at that point. After a while I arrive at an accommodation: Well, it's not the ideal, it's not the perfect object I wanted to make, but maybeif I go ahead and finish it anywayI can get it right next time. Maybe I can have another chance.”

Ifs World Want Wells Made I Can Book Wanted Hate Turns Next Chance Perfect Objects Color Ten Pages Ideals I Hate Made It Next Time Discouraging Another Chance Accommodations

Author:Joan Didion

“You asked if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there's been some scandal, but people are scandalized all the time; it's a way of life for them. It doesn't mean a thing. If you ask if I want my fiction to change anything in the culture, the answer is still no. What I want is to possess my readers while they are reading my book if I can, to possess them in ways that other writers don't. Then let them return, just as they were, to a world where everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt, and control them.”

People Ifs World Way Want Mean Stills I Can Book Culture Reading Asks Answers Fiction Changed Return Reader Scandal

Book:Conversations with Philip Roth

Source: Conversations with Philip Roth

“If a work of art is placed before me, I believe I can enjoy it; but I do not overlook the fact, that Art is one thing, another thing Amusement; and that people do like amusements, and will run after it.”

People Ifs Believe Art I Can Facts Running I Believe Enjoy One Thing Art Is Works Of Art Amusement

Author:George Henry Lewes

“One can imagine having a procedural rule that anything ambiguous should be treated as the Taj Mahal unless we see that it is labelled "fog". The motorist replies: "What sort of rule is this? Surely the best guarantee I can have that the fog is fog is if I fail to see the sign saying 'fog' because of the fog."”

Ifs Should I Can Imagine Failing Treated Guarantees Fog Ambiguous Taj Mahal Mahal Sign Sayings

Book:Collected Columns

Source: Collected Columns

“I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.”

Ifs Mind I Can Play Orchestra Violin Conducting

Author:Edwin Land

“I can spend somebody else's money on somebody else. And if I spend somebody else's money on somebody else, I'm not concerned about how much it is, and I'm not concerned about what I get. And that's government. And that's close to 40 percent of our national income.”

Ifs I Can Government Percent Concerned Income

Author:Milton Friedman

“I always say separate your abilities from your disabilities. You know, if I could play the violin, I don't have to play it standing up. I can play it sitting down and so on.”

Ifs Knows I Can Play Ability Sitting Standing Down And If I Could Disability Violin Sitting Down

Author:Itzhak Perlman

“If I can still be successful making films and no-one will ever know me, then that would be great. Because we (actors) just like to do what we do. People who are doing it for fame, I don't know if they ever get really successful.”

People Ifs Knows Stills I Can Would Be Film Actors Successful Fame Being Successful Know Me Get Real

Author:Channing Tatum

“Learning that you have stamina is an excellent thing to know. If a project fails, I know I can pick myself up.”

Ifs Knows I Can Failing Projects Picks Excellent Stamina

Author:Eddie Izzard

“If you look around the world and I can tell you right now that the majority of the planet is focused on certainty and significance. And those two absolutely guarantee unhappiness. Because if you're driven by significance, it doesn't matter what you achieve, it's never enough.”

Ifs World Looks I Can Two Matter Enough Achieve Planets Right Now Majority Focused Driven Certainty Around The World Guarantees Significance Unhappiness

Author:Tony Robbins

“I want people to be inspired to do what's in front of them. If you won't give a dime out of a dollar, don't talk to a billionaire about giving their money away because if you don't give a dime out of a dollar, I can promise you, you're not going to give a 100 million out of a billion. It's a lie.”

People Ifs Want Giving I Can Lying Millions Fronts Promise Dollars Inspired Billions Billionaire Dimes Be Inspired

Author:Tony Robbins

“I am a pig! I love to eat! i will eat anything! If you put it front of me, I will put it in my mouth, even if it doesn't taste good! And I can't stop eating until all the food is gone. It's probably one of the contributing factors as to why I became a drag queen. I can eat whatever I want, because I can just strap myself into a corset!”

Ifs Want I Can Gone Fronts Taste Eating Mouths Factors Queens Drag Pigs Because I Can Contributing Corsets Drag Queen

Author:Manila Luzon

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