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“I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.”

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Author:Manuel Puig

“The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.”

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Author:Manuel Puig

“I've often said in the past that I thought MTV was sort of evil incarnate and signified the beginning of the end. And I don't know if I'm entirely wrong about that, but they did sign my paychecks a year ago, so I guess I'm part of the problem.”

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Author:Martha Plimpton

“If I ever lose a role because of my tattoos, I'll quit Hollywood and go to work at Costco.”

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Author:Megan Fox

“Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.”

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Author:Mary-Louise Parker

“My sister's fish tacos are out of control. I'd give her a restaurant if I were a gazillionaire.”

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Author:Mary-Louise Parker

“I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it.”

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Author:Mary-Louise Parker

“I feel like movies, if there's any kind of budget whatsoever, there's so much sitting, and I really like to work. Otherwise my blood sugar just drops, you know, six hours sitting in a camper.”

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Author:Mary-Louise Parker

“If I can go through what I've been through and do a television show with my son and then be a boy from the hood making records for the people I make records for, that's reality.”

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Author:Master P

“Personally, I'm very classic. If I'm going to wear a suit, it's going to be classic, black, and fit very well. There's nothing like it.”

Ifs Wells Black Fit Suits Classic

Author:Michael Pitt

“Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.”

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Author:Michael Polanyi

“If you ask, do you like strong men or weak men, I'd say, I like who I like.”

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Author:Miuccia Prada

“I'm probably an actor that tends to, instead of putting things on, think about it more in terms of taking away what's not in the character, until I'm left with what is. If that makes sense. That's probably a particularly American way of working, but maybe not. The end of any movie is a readjustment.”

Ifs Thinking Way Ends Character Actors Left Term Make Sense

Author:Molly Parker

“If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.”

Ifs Loss Cry Loss Of A Friend Personal Loss

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“Hollywood is the most superficial thing you could possibly be a part of and if I weren't attractive, I wouldn't be working at all.”

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Author:Megan Fox

“I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.”

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Author:Natalie Portman

“If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.”

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Author:Oscar Peterson

“Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was such a technologically advanced prosthetic leg, then how come not everyone's qualifying, or coming close to the qualification time, then?”

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Author:Oscar Pistorius

“Your voice dries up if you don't use it.”

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Author:Patti Page

“I'm sure there are a lot of things I should have done differently. But I don't think I've stepped on anyone along the way. If I have, I didn't mean to.”

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Author:Patti Page

“If you have the capacity to love, you have the capacity to love anyone.”

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Author:Paula Patton

“If you're an actress and even one person knows your name, you're lucky.”

Ifs Knows Persons Names Lucky Actresses

Author:Paula Patton

“I always tell myself that when you're playing a character, pretend they're on trial and you're giving the best witness of their life. You really need to think about every element of the character and represent them properly, as if they were a real person. You want to give 100 percent of what they're worth and what they deserve as people.”

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Author:Pauley Perrette

“I believe that what is legislated bleeds down into everything. So if the legislation continues to uphold anything that doesn't support equal rights and civil rights, that bleeds down into Matthew Shepard being murdered.”

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Author:Pauley Perrette

“I hated high school and got to college and realized they didn't care if I showed up because I'd already paid. So I decided, 'I'm going to turn this around.' And I did: I got straight A's and was named 'outstanding senior.”

Ifs Care School Turns College High School Decided Paid Hated Senior Outstanding

Author:Pauley Perrette

“Now, I don't actually know the exact cut-off age where beautiful ceases and "must have-once-been-beautiful" begins. It's true it's not forty-five. I can still get attention when I try really hard, even if it's greatly reduced.”

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Author:Paulina Porizkova

“The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hussein who'll give you seven months to move your forces in.”

Ifs World Giving War Moving Force Months Seven Saddam Hussein Tanks Seven Months

Author:Ralph Peters

“But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules.”

People Ifs Way Should States United United States Protect Rejects Jurisdiction Legality

Book:An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror

Source: An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror

“How much golf I actually play depends on whom you ask. My wife says I'm out there every day. If you ask me, the cricket is getting in the way of the golf.”

Ifs Way Play Asks Wife Depends Golf My Wife Ask Me Cricket

Author:Ricky Ponting

“President Obama has been attacking relentlessly. In 2008 he said that if you're out of fresh ideas you use stale tactics against your opponent - you try and make your opponent unacceptable and that's what he is trying to do.”

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Author:Rob Portman

“If you start very far to the left, it's harder to get to the middle.”

Ifs Left Middle Harder

Author:Rob Portman

“If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.”

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Author:Rob Portman

“If being recalled is the price for keeping one's promises, then so be it.”

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Author:Russell Pearce

“It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.”

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Author:Sean Parker

“If an industrialist can sell his products anywhere in India and the world, why should a farmer not be allowed to do so?”

Ifs World Should Products India Sells Farmers

Author:Sharad Pawar

“If you're billed as a comedian, people will accept anything you say as light-hearted and not with intent behind it.”

People Ifs Light Behinds Accepting Comedian Hearted Light Hearted

Author:Megan Fox

“If you are going to a destination where the food might be more exotic than usual, always err on the side of caution.”

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Author:Stefanie Powers

“If my results are not good I will lose my job.”

Ifs Jobs Loses Results

Author:Stuart Pearce

“People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.”

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Author:Megan Fox

“If you want a higher power, go to the goddamn sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer.”

Ifs Want Sun Higher Destroying Layers Higher Power Ozone Ozone Layer Ozone Depletion

Author:Susan Powter

“There isn't a theologian in the world who can argue with me on this. God has no gender. If that's the case, then everything needs to be rewritten now, right now.”

Ifs World Needs Cases Right Now Gender Arguing Theologian

Author:Susan Powter

“If you are having fun on screen, it shows.”

Ifs Shows Fun Screens Having Fun

Author:Teresa Palmer

“As a producer you have creative control, and that's what is so exciting about it. At the end of the day, if you have made a film it's totally your responsibility, and if it works it's your responsibility and if it doesn't it's also your responsibility.”

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Author:Teresa Palmer

“I always have those feelings - lucky and blessed - and I don't know if they'll ever go away. I really hope they don't, as I think it keeps you grounded. That's how I feel about every film I do.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Feelings Film Lucky Blessed Going Away Grounded

Author:Teresa Palmer

“I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either.”

Ifs Stills Important Stories Enjoy Awareness Reader Conscious Reactions

Author:Thomas Perry

“If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas.”

Ifs Writing Ideas Character Projects Sight Down And Lists Description Monologues

Author:Thomas Perry

“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

“What I look for in any character, good or bad, is whether I can hear him speak. If I can imagine him that clearly, then I can write about him.”

Ifs Writing Looks I Can Character Speak Imagine

Author:Thomas Perry

“When I talk about my husband, I feel as if people roll their eyes. It's like when you're 16 and order a martini, and the waiter says, 'Do you think I'm stupid?'. They can't grasp that I'm old enough to be married.”

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Author:Megan Fox

“I no longer believe that just about everything is funny, if viewed from the proper angle.”

Ifs Believe Angle

Author:Tom Perrotta

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