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“If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.”

“I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.”

Ifs Wells Done Comedy Fans Horror Intelligent Aliens Genre Zombie Chicks Well Done Invaders Zombie Movie Chick Flick

Author:J.K. Simmons

“Being polite and grateful will make people more inclined to help you. And if people are willing to help you, you may accidentally get something you want.”

People Ifs Want May Helping Willing Grateful Polite Being Polite

Author:Jason Sudeikis

“When somebody listens and laughs, you're always in better shape than when you're with those folks who just kind of look at you when you say something funny. You wonder if they're looking at you because they're mad that they didn't say it or something. It's hard to handle that.”

Ifs Looks Kind Hard Wonder Laughing Shapes Mad Folks Handle Hard To Handle

Author:Jason Sudeikis

“Kids still can be said to live in their own little world. Even if their parents are helicoptering around them, assigning play dates and so forth, I think they're still living in some sense of their own little perceptual worlds.”

Ifs Thinking World Littles Said Stills Play Kids Parent Play Dates

Author:Jerry Spinelli

“So we do have our exits and our entrances and we are perhaps mere, but I think if one keep a certain joyousness in life which should be in playing, then good for one, but it's slightly more serious than that.”

Ifs Thinking Should Certain Serious Mere Exit Entrances

Author:Janet Suzman

“If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.”

Ifs Lines Areas Sympathetic Creepy

Author:Jason Segel

“We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over.”

Ifs War Law Failing Constitution Slavery Slave Operations Hereafter Fugitive

Author:Jay Sekulow

“The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view.”

Ifs World Ideas Country Growth Views Economy Pieces Economic Benefits Economic Growth Integrated Concur

Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by.”

Ifs Knows Needs May Hard Care Principles Economy Economic Hard Truths Specifics Doctoring Tender Loving Care

Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“Well, I would definitely give up performing... But I would still sit down in an office and pretend to write with Dawn, even if we never produced anything, because it's just hilarious. I would miss that.”

Ifs Giving Writing Wells Stills Missing Office Giving Up Dawn Performing

Author:Jennifer Saunders

“There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama.”

People Ifs Made Real Kids Grows Stuff Rooms Focus Couple Drama Commitment

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage.”

Ifs Happy Marriage Happy Family

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.”

Ifs Artist Childhood Havens Amount Twenties Trauma Your Children Complexity

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“I was always worried with comedy - what if I came to work and I wasn't in a funny mood? That hasn't been an issue.”

Ifs Issues Comedy Mood Worried What If

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“I'm married now, but back when I had girlfriends, you were always wondering if they liked you, and if you liked them enough. You're together, but the smallest thing could make one of you go 'You know what? This isn't working!”

Ifs Knows Enough Together Wonder Married Girlfriend Smallest Back When

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“If you think about movies that are adapted from books, they never feel like enough. There's always too much cut out in the end. You either make a five hour movie or you leave out stuff that should be in there.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Should Book Ends Enough Stuff Hours Five Too Much Cutting Adapted

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“If I had my own Neverland it would probably be the coolest place in the world. You could do anything you want there. There would be trees everywhere.”

Ifs World Want Would Be My Own Tree Places In The World Neverland

Author:Jeremy Sumpter

“If the weather's nice, I like to be outside exercising, but when it's colder, I'm a real homebody and I catch up on my reading.”

Ifs Real Reading Nice Exercise Weather Homebodies

Author:Jeremy Sumpter

“It's always special when you're young and you have a vision for something you want to do, and somebody takes a moment to connect with you. Now if there are kids on the set I try to talk to them for a bit.”

Ifs Want Trying Moments Kids Young Bits Vision Special

Author:Jeremy Sumpter

“There is no 'perfect' in music. If I ever came off the stage and felt it could not be better, it would then be time to quit.”

Ifs Felt Perfect Stage Quitting

Author:Leonard Slatkin

“I am usually cooking at least four times a week if I am home. The easiest thing that I do a lot is gazpacho. It's simple and it tastes best if you let it sit over night in the refrigerator... I don't want anybody near me when I am cooking. If I am going to make a mistake, it has to be my fault.”

Ifs Want Home Night Simple Mistake Four Week Taste Cooking Faults Refrigerators

Author:Leonard Slatkin

“I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.”

Ifs Higher Disappear Criminals Schemes Utility Policemen

Author:Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

“If you care enough, you make a difference.”

Ifs Enough Care Differences Making A Difference If You Care You Make A Difference

Author:Loretta Swit

“What draws me to the theatre, and what appealed to me about Too Much Light, is that you have no idea what's going to happen. That's the most exciting part of theatre, it's never the same. If it were, it would be like watching a movie.”

Ifs Ideas Light Happens Would Be Too Much Draws Exciting Theatre No Idea

Author:Lusia Strus

“People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.”

People Ifs Thinking Home Turns Eating Dinner Think Of You Freeze Maggie Eating Dinner

Author:Maggie Smith

“A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.”

Ifs Party Novel Missing Reader Conversation Starters After Party

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Writing Would Be Giving Up Tick

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.”

Ifs Culture Fiction Majors Concern Violent Dystopian Escapism Dystopian Fiction Enamored Violent Death

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.”

Ifs Feels I Can Real Matter Character Action Interesting Reader Kings Regard Meetings Queens Plot Compelled Twists Meeting Someone Plot Twists

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.”

Ifs World Ideas Economy Cutting Increase Infinite Protection Productivity Controlled New Ideas Incentives

Author:Manmohan Singh

“Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral.”

Ifs World Giving Real Clear Danger Lessons Pressure Severe Spirals Protectionism Downturn Downward Spiral

Author:Manmohan Singh

“The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty.”

Ifs Years Looks Made Country Character Able Lasts Poverty Economy Progress Generations Example Grew Percent East Indian Asian 1960s Phenomenal Asian Countries

Author:Manmohan Singh

“You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.”

Ifs Play Shut Up

Author:Marat Safin

“Probably I'll not be so successful if I will keep everything in myself inside of me.”

Ifs Successful

Author:Marat Safin

“Kids should feel afraid of 'Doctor Who.' All the adults I've talked to remember fondly being afraid when they were kids. That's part of the reason they remember it and love it. And if you're afraid in a controlled way, you sort of appreciate fear in some respect.”

Ifs Way Feels Should Reason Kids Remember Adults Appreciate Doctors And Love Controlled Doctor Who Being Afraid

Author:Matt Smith

“In our show, there's usually a comeuppance. Or, if not, it's an anti-ending. And you're supposed to get that.”

Ifs Shows Comeuppance

Author:Matt Stone

“That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies.”

Ifs Knows Certain Decision Principles Paper Commit Narrative Inconsistency

Author:Matt Stone

“Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario.”

Ifs Needs Giving Would Be Creativity Sells Labels Being The Best Scenarios Standpoint

Author:Matthew Sweet

“I wanted Kimi to be a Japanese record with a Japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. They appreciate things on a different level, and take their art very seriously - that's special if you're an artist.”

Ifs Art Different Wanted Artist Levels Records Special Appreciate Titles Different Levels

Author:Matthew Sweet

“Politics is its own world. It is a court and if the king's eye lights on you, you are a powerful figure. If the king's eye wanders elsewhere, you are out, whatever your title.”

Ifs World Light Eye Powerful Figures Kings Court Wander Titles Elsewhere

Author:Maurice Saatchi

“If you are in a band like my brother, Rudolf, who is in the Scorpions, then you have a kind of umbrella and you cover each other. You have five people to discuss things with and you are all in the same boat, and therefore make much wiser choices.”

People Ifs Kind Choices Five Brother Band Boat My Brother Wiser Umbrella Scorpions

Author:Michael Schenker

“An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.”

Ifs Life Giving Looks Self Use Reality Beautiful Success Behinds Fronts Example Huge Misery Vanity Hiding Behind You Self Absorbed Peacock

Author:Pope Francis

“If you copy then it is not self-expression.”

Ifs Self Expression Copies Self Expression

Author:Michael Schenker

“I think if you watch a lot of what I do, you're going to ultimately walk away seeing me. I can't hide - that impression is a personal impression people have of me.”

People Ifs Thinking I Can Walks Watches Seeing Impression

Author:Michael Shannon

“If I were God, I would just be up there scratching my head, thinking, 'What the hell am I supposed to do with this?' For everyone helping an old lady across the street, there's someone else bludgeoning a person to death. And sometimes they're the same. How can He separate us all out?”

Ifs Thinking Persons Sometimes Helping Hell Streets Old Lady

Author:Michael Shannon

“If you don't believe there's some organising principle, or somebody up in the sky pulling the strings, then it can be very stressful. And nature itself is very arbitrary - it's not malevolent or benevolent; it doesn't even know we're here.”

Ifs Knows Believe Principles Sky Don't Believe Strings Pulling Arbitrary Stressful Benevolent

Author:Michael Shannon

“Also, if I did join another show, I'd end up burning my bridges to the show I love most.”

Ifs Ends Shows Burning Bridges

Author:Michael Storm

“It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.”

Ifs Men Firsts Age Church Risk Streets Happenings Ordinary Sick Accidents Going Out Wounded Ordinary Man

Author:Pope Francis

“If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.”

Ifs Government Failing Demand

Author:Muqtada al Sadr

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