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“Law and Order' is completely story-driven and completely characterless, really. If you do that format for five years and you're an actor, you're bound to get bored. It wears on you. And it was really wearing on me.”

Ifs Years Stories Law Order Actors Five Bounds Driven Bored Five Years Format Law And Order Characterless

Author:Chris Noth

“If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.”

People Ifs Humans Persons Would Be Care Beautiful Certain Imagination Human Beings Filled Generous Appetite Elderly Propensity Flair Copenhagen

Author:Connie Nielsen

“As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don't dare to say.”

People Ifs Artist Choices Dare Outsiders

Author:Connie Nielsen

“If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.”

Ifs Knows Mean Different Wish Concepts Excitement Different Things God Knows

Author:Connie Nielsen

“I got to do a whole slew of TV movies playing the bad guy, including an episode of Smallville. That would never have happened if I hadn't done the Stand.”

Ifs Done Whole Guy Happened Tvs Including Episodes Bad Guys

Author:Corin Nemec

“I like good stories. Quality products and character are what's important. Even if the script isn't that strong, if I challenge myself with a great character, I'll go for it.”

Ifs Important Character Stories Strong Challenges Quality Products Scripts Good Story What's Important Great Character

Author:Corin Nemec

“If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don't even look at private schools. Just shut the door. Just turn off the TV. And then you don't even have to worry about preschool. You have to worry about what's good for your kid, but you don't have to worry about how to position yourself.”

Ifs Looks Kids School Turns Decision Worry Doors Position Tvs Public School Turn Off Private School Preschool

Author:Cynthia Nixon

“As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don't watch it.”

Ifs Watches Television Offensive Viewers

Author:Dave Navarro

“I always go with the story and character and if those are good and if the setting is something that's scary (horror films seem to always take place at night and the weather's always bad) then I might be interested.”

Ifs Character Stories Seems Might Film Night Horror Scary Setting Weather Settings Horror Film

Author:David Naughton

“If you're a big Hollywood star, you make one movie a year at the most. I can make five in Europe.”

Ifs Years I Can Bigs Stars Five Europe Hollywood Hollywood Stars

Author:Franco Nero

“If you're setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look through a library. find out what people were wearing, what other issues were in the news, how houses were furnished, what cars were being driven. Especially include things which now seem foreign.”

People Ifs Looks Seems Games House Issues Car News Crisis Library Driven Setting Settings Missiles Cuban Cuban Missile Crisis

Author:Graham Nelson

“You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to.”

Ifs Want Crowds

Author:Ivor Novello

“If there is something occurring that is so bad that it could be considered a crime against humanity, it has to be transmitted with anguish, with pain, and create an impact in people - upset them, shake them up, wake them out of their everyday routine.”

People Ifs Pain Humanity Crime Photography Impact Everyday Upset Shakes Routine Anguish Crimes Against Humanity Everyday Routine

Author:James Nachtwey

“If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way. I move kind of slow. I talk kind of slow. I let them know that I respect them.”

People Ifs Knows Way Want Needs Kind Moving Certain Grief Scared Distress

Author:James Nachtwey

“If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!”

Ifs House Fire

Author:Jean Nouvel

“People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense.”

People Ifs Want Kind Children Kids Sake Make Sense Evasion

Author:Jeremy Northam

“I have to feel that I'm going somewhere all the time. By definition, if you have this urge to go places, then you can't be 100 percent happy where you are. It's not like I enjoy being miserable for weeks on end. But I think it's good to be miserable for about one day every third week - that's ideal for me.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Ends Enjoy Week One Day Percent Ideals Thirds Definitions Miserable Urges Where You Are

Author:Jo Nesbo

“Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller.”

Ifs Made Shows Wanted Names Felt Fiction Novel Written Crime Thrillers Norwegians Scandinavians Scandinavia Crime Novels Rushdie

Author:Jo Nesbo

“I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesn't have any money. I wouldn't want to do that forever.”

Ifs Want Giving Shows Forever Cds

Author:Joanna Newsom

“There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them.”

People Ifs Thinking Children End Times Spend Time Ceilings Music Business

Author:Juice Newton

“I need to say how I feel.aIf you were a political person before, and you just happened into a movie, to stop being a political person makes no sense. I always laugh and say, 'Dudes, if I have to choose, I'm a political person first. I would never do another movie again and be completely happy.' I need to say how I feel.”

Ifs Needs Feels Firsts Persons Political Laughing Happened

Author:Kathy Najimy

“If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.”

Ifs Reason Age Able Power Cost Fundamentals Aging Sexuality Birthday Links Repression Repressed 50th Birthday

Book:The History of Sexuality: An Introduction

Source: The History of Sexuality: An Introduction

“I really think if you take away a character's obstacles then there's no comedy.”

Ifs Thinking Character Comedy Obstacles

Author:Kunal Nayyar

“If you want to go on the floor, go in disguise because otherwise you won't be able to. I would just put on a full Darth Vader costume and walk through Comic-Con so I can actually check it out and enjoy it as opposed to being approached by everyone, which is lovely, but it gets very difficult to enjoy because there's so many people there.”

People Ifs Want I Can Able Enjoy Difficult Walks Goes On Lovely Checks Comic Disguise Costumes Comic Con Vader

Author:Kunal Nayyar

“I don't know if I'm an impressionist or an expressionist. You can call me an American first... I've been labeled doing neimanism, so that's what it is, I guess.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Style Call Me Impressionists

Author:LeRoy Neiman

“If I didn't do well at Wimbledon maybe Chinese people will forget about me.”

People Ifs Wells Forget Chinese Wimbledon Forget About Me

Author:Li Na

“If by noise you mean uncomfortable sound, then pop music is noise to me.”

Ifs Mean Sound Music Is Pops Noise Uncomfortable Pop Music

Author:Merzbow

“If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.”

Ifs Giving Feels Kind Important Emotional Connections Familiar Emotional Connection

Author:Marc Newson

“Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said.”

People Ifs Giving Said Care Hero Music Is Don't Care Guides Miles I Don't Care Covered My Hero Hoot Cindy

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“My greatest influence is Jimi Hendrix, and if he's been reincarnated, or if he's looking down, sideways, or looking up, I just wanted to tell him that I love him and thank him for opening doors for me. I just wanted to make it beautiful for him.”

Ifs Wanted Beautiful Doors Influence Opening I Love Him Sideways Hendrix Looking Down Opening Doors

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“It's one of the nice things about this nation that when the Constitution is violated, if it affects you, you can bring a suit.”

Ifs Nations Nice Constitution Suits Nice Things

Author:Michael Newdow

“Hopefully, if I have done my job right, people will want to know and see more! There is certainly plenty more to tell. I would love to be part of that process of expanding on the lore that makes up Warcraft, but it will all depend on what you, the audience, think of our first film!”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Want Firsts Done Jobs Film Process Audience Depends Plenty Hopefully Expanding

Author:Duncan Jones

“Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.”

Ifs Needs Dream Able Humanity Existence Misery Instant

Author:Oscar Niemeyer

“I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.”

Ifs Song Records Blame Complaining Always Complaining

Author:Randy Newman

“I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.”

Ifs Song Written If I Could

Author:Randy Newman

“If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.”

Ifs Stills America Guilty Misunderstanding Misgivings

Author:Ron Fournier

“Well, when I was a kid, if my father was witnessing something that he thought was particularly outrageous or he was looking at some sort of a question that he thought lacked proper definition, he would say, Well, at least Jesse James had the honor to wear a mask.”

Ifs Wells Kids Father Honor Definitions Mask Outrageous

Author:Richard Neal

“I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.”

Ifs Knows Jobs Next Nervous

Author:Sam Neill

“When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.”

Ifs Way Writing Past Process Pay Commitment Consequence Paid Prepared Interfere Writing Process Living My Life I Live My Life

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.”

Ifs Made Would Be Chance Fairs Pity Contact Frustrated

Book:The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver

Source: The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver

“I'm in an absolute frenzy towards doing as many things as I can that I want to do today. The rest can wait till tomorrow, next week, if I'm around we'll take a look.”

Ifs Want Looks I Can Today Next Waiting Week Tomorrow Absolutes Next Week Frenzy

Author:Buck Owens

“I'd like to think that I'm getting slightly more mature as time goes on, but I don't know if my fiancee would necessarily agree.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Goes On Agree Mature Time Goes On Fiancee

Author:Chris O'Dowd

“In comedy it helps if there's a friendly atmosphere on the set.”

Ifs Helping Comedy Atmosphere Friendly

Author:Chris O'Dowd

“I get asked all the time if I want to do more dramatic acting, and I really doubt that dramatic actors get asked if they want to do more comedies. I don't really know why that is.”

Ifs Knows Want Actors Acting Doubt Comedy Dramatic

Author:Chris O'Dowd

“People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Should Doe Artist Next Particular Band Like Something

Author:Conor Oberst

“If you want quality service, you have to pay for it. You don't buy into waste. I have great misgivings about the amount of advertising that we see in the health care field, some by hospitals, a lot by drug companies.”

Ifs Want Care Pay Quality Company Fields Amount Drug Waste Advertising Health Care Hospitals Misgivings Drug Companies Quality Service

Author:Dave Obey

“I just come do what I've got to do, play my game. And I don't worry if anybody likes it.”

Ifs Play Games Worry Likes

Author:David Ortiz

“I'm the kind of a player who, if you give me something good to hit, I'm going to swing at it. Otherwise, there's nothing else you can do.”

Ifs Giving Kind Can Do Player Give Me Swings

Author:David Ortiz

“If I can't hit at a high level, I won't play, and I know there comes a point where my body won't be able to do that.”

Ifs Knows I Can Play Body Able Levels High Level

Author:David Ortiz

“Everybody thinks if you do one thing, you can't do something else. So I like the fact that I can be versatile if I want to.”

Ifs Thinking Want I Can Facts One Thing Versatile

Author:Denise Van Outen

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