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“I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page or two.”

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Author:James Rollins

“I didn't just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else's method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson's being underfunded.”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“You know, being an entrepreneur is super hard work, and if you're not passionate about what you're doing, you're probably not going to succeed.”

Ifs Knows Hard Hard Work Succeed Entrepreneur Passionate Doing You

Author:Jeff Raikes

“In business, the market gives you feedback in real time. Your sales figures tell you what's working, what isn't, and how you need to change. If you don't listen to the feedback, you go belly up. In philanthropy, there is no market.”

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Author:Jeff Raikes

“I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.”

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Author:Jeremy Renner

“But it is equally necessary to consider the implications for a society if there are fewer and fewer young people making music because we are economising on music schools or musical education in schools.”

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Author:Johannes Rau

“I'm also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films that, if they do nothing else, allow people to check their problems at the door, sit down and have a good time.”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“I like the work. If I upped the price, I wouldn't get the work.”

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Author:John Raitt

“If I can talk, I can sing.”

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Author:John Raitt

“The three main political parties all agree the UK deficit is high and needs to be brought down. All agree that it is easier to get a deficit down if you have faster growth, cutting unemployment-related costs and raising revenues.”

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Author:John Redwood

“I've learned some exciting things - mostly, that people really want to help each other; and that, if you can lay out a vision for them - and that vision is sincere and genuine - they'll get interested.”

People Ifs Want Helping Vision Exciting Lays Genuine I've Learned Sincere Helping Each Other Exciting Things

Author:Michael J. Fox

“The analogy I use is that 'World of Warcraft' is like going to the mall: you see a ton of people there, but you don't really want to interact with them; you just want to know you're part of the human race. And if you get in trouble, you'll know someone else is there.”

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Author:John Romero

“If you asked my kids to describe me, they'd go through a whole list of words before even thinking about Parkinson's. And honestly, I don't think about it that much either. I talk about it because it's there, but it's not my totality.”

Ifs Thinking Whole Kids Lists Honestly Totality Parkinson Parkinson's Describe Me

Author:Michael J. Fox

“If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more.”

Ifs Care Poor Race Relation South Regions Patches Race Relations Southerner If You Care

Author:John Shelton Reed

“There's an ethic that says: 'You don't run off to the church for the sacraments of salvation, you establish a personal relationship with God. You don't run off to the courts for justice, you settle it yourself. You don't run off to labor unions to sort out your work relations, you can take this job and shove it if you don't like what you're doing.”

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Author:John Shelton Reed

“If I didn't like someone, I wouldn't want him calling me up when I was dying. I wouldn't want them having regrets that they didn't talk to me.”

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Author:Johnny Ramone

“But, yeah, I'm really happy when I'm writing. When I'm being creative and when I have something that I can put down. You know, if you go out and you overhear a conversation or you have a thought, you have a receptacle to go home and say, 'Oh, this would be great in this script.' Your antenna's out in a different way, and I love that time.”

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Author:Josh Radnor

“I know not everyone starts out reading high literature. If you read enough you might be drawn to some other things, so maybe those vampire books are what they call 'gateway books.' I just coined that term. I don't know if there's a thing called 'gateway books.”

Ifs Knows Book Enough Might Reading Literature Term Vampire Gateways

Author:Josh Radnor

“I'm not a masochistic reader. If something is just too dense or not enjoyable, even though I'm told it should be good for me, I'll put it down. That said, most of what I read would be considered high-end or good for you, I suppose. But, I also think that reading should be enjoyable.”

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Author:Josh Radnor

“I think right now the jury is out on where and how much profit is available in the consumer electronics industry, because if you look at the current consumer electronics players, the biggest ones on the planet struggle to make profit consistently.”

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Author:Kevin B. Rollins

“If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged.”

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Author:Kevin Rudd

“If I could throw my phone away, I would probably do it. It's always on silent, and I don't like when it rings and people are calling. We could live without those things in the past when we just had a phone on the street somewhere, on the corner or at the house. I have no interest in telling all the people what I do every day and where I am.”

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Author:Kimi Raikkonen

“Don't be a victim; if you want to make movies, make movies.”

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Author:Lance Reddick

“If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.”

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Author:Lance Reddick

“As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opportunities I felt I deserved, and continue to have them, I was going to have to start creating those opportunities for myself.”

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Author:Lance Reddick

“If I fancy a girl, I'll tell her. I'll say: 'You're fit.”

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Author:Lee Ryan

“Designing bridal is perfect for me, because black is my least favorite color, if you could call it a color.”

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Author:Lela Rose

“If you splurge, do it on an item that's fun, because you'll feel good whenever you put it on.”

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Author:Lela Rose

“If I had a crush on a guy, my tactic was to tell them I had a crush on them. And they always thought it was super-cute, so it usually worked in my favor!”

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Author:Leven Rambin

“Believe me, I love commerce as much as the rest of the readers of 'Businessweek.' But in art, you have to be true to yourself and your musical vision. People have known me well for a long time, so if I was chasing a trend and doing something that wasn't authentic to who I am, they would know it in just a few seconds.”

“The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we give them adequate resources and modern technologies, we can protect our citizens without intruding on our liberties.”

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Author:Lucille Roybal-Allard

“If someone knows of a job creator anywhere in the world that's looking for a high, complex tax environment or looking for a high regulatory environment, I would like to meet them because I have yet to meet a job creator that's looking for that, and that's what we have.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“I've just been more interested in doing film right now and I don't want to go away from my family for six months, which was what I would have had to have done if I did the play on Broadway.”

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Author:Mark Ruffalo

“If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.”

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Author:Martha Reeves

“If you could really guarantee that the money would be spent on something more worthwhile, I'd say, absolutely, scrap the space program, but it never works that way.”

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Author:Mary Roach

“You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I practically failed chemistry, and if I had to write a book in any of those areas, I don't think it would go well.”

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Author:Mary Roach

“I find being a mother is a huge advantage. Of course, I'm probably a little more tired than I might be if I didn't have children, but I think they provide me the balance that I need to keep my mind off of lifting.”

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Author:Melanie Roach

“I'd like my children to learn that anything is possible if you put your mind to it, and that when you make a decision to do something like pursuing the Olympics, like I have, it needs to be a family affair.”

Ifs Needs Mind Children Decision Affair My Children Olympics Anything Is Possible

Author:Melanie Roach

“Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.”

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Author:Mercedes Ruehl

“Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.”

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Author:Michael Rapaport

“I didn't know if I was heterosexual or homosexual.”

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Author:Michael Reagan

“I wonder if these people today would think Reagan was a Reagan conservative.”

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Author:Michael Reagan

“The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other people will think it is, well they won't.”

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Author:Mo Rocca

“What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.”

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Author:Natasha Richardson

“If I can have the opportunity to go into an editing room, it's like the golden ticket for me. All I want is to learn about everything else in the filmmaking process. I just directed a music video which just came out and that'd sort of be the area of the field that I'm going to move into, I hope.”

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Author:Nikki Reed

“I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.”

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Author:Nora Roberts

“If you look back at my marathons and ask whether I would swap one of them for my one balls-up, of course I would. But you can't choose. You have to make the best of it on the day.”

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Author:Paula Radcliffe

“I'll take anyway to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy, I'll go in as a batboy.”

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Author:Phil Rizzuto

“If I had known being insane was so much fun, I'd have gone crazy long ago.”

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Author:Phylicia Rashad

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