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“I kept listening, kept going to see people, kept sitting in with people, kept listening to records. If I wanted to learn somebody's stuff, like with Clapton, when I wanted to learn how he was getting some of his sounds - which were real neat - I learned how to make the sounds with my mouth and then copied that with my guitar.”

People Ifs Real Wanted Stuff Sound Records Listening Mouths Sitting Guitar Neat

Author:Stevie Ray Vaughan

“If you make the bad guy enticing and dangerous, that's where the excitement of playing the role really kicks in. I don't get to do that in my normal day-to-day life. Life is too taxing to go to those dark places.”

Ifs Life Is Guy Dark Roles Dangerous Normal Excitement Kicks Day To Day Bad Guys Dark Places Day Life Day To Day Life Enticing

Author:Tony Vincent

“But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.”

Ifs Happens Technological Singularity

Author:Vernor Vinge

“If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.”

Source: Autobiographical Writings

“It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.”

Ifs Thinking Soul Audience Laughing Knowing Destroying

Author:Vince Vaughn

“Any guy hates Valentine's Day. Even if you're in love, you can't win on Valentine's Day. If you're married, you can't win on Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is like the thing you want to avoid at all costs.”

Ifs Want Guy Hate Winning Love You Cost Married Valentine Valentine's Day Can't Win

Author:Vince Vaughn

“I love actors and I feel like, if you usually allow people some say, most people, if they start to feel comfortable, they're going to have a voice. If they feel heard, then they will give back 10 times as much to you.”

People Ifs Giving Feels Actors Voice Heard Comfortable Giving Back

Author:Vince Vaughn

“I'm so happy that I finished college. Going into this crazy vortex of scrutiny is tough. If I was younger than I was now and I was going to fashion shows, I might have this distorted sense of self. I might rely on those cameras. Because when I was 18, I was half-baked.”

Ifs Self Shows Might Half Crazy Fashion College Tough Cameras Finished Rely Sense Of Self Scrutiny Vortex Fashion Show

Author:Allison Williams

“'The Golden Compass' became a bad experience because the studio didn't have faith in the strength of the ideas of the novel, which is ironic because it's one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written, if not the greatest, and they took the religion out of it and tried to turn it into a popcorn movie.”

Ifs Ideas Turns Fantasy Novel Written Studios Golden Have Faith Ironic Compass Popcorn Bad Experiences Fantasy Novels

Author:Chris Weitz

“I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee Airman who was from Southern Virginia. They migrated to Washington and I wouldn't even exist if it were not for that migration. And I brought her back to Georgia, both my parents, actually.”

Ifs Mean Mother Father Parent Mets Southern Rome Virginia Georgia Migration Airmen

Author:Isabel Wilkerson

“Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling.”

Ifs Needs Kind Feelings Choices Instinct Intuition Posts Rationalize

Author:Joe Wright

“It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes to heal it, but who cares if the writer is not whole; of course the writer is not whole, or even particularly well.”

Ifs Writing Wells Whole Care Courses Wounds Heal These Days Who Cares Fashionable

Book:Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals

Source: Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals

“I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.”

Ifs Used Acting Jokes Work Out

Author:Merritt Wever

“I do happen to love Honey Nut Cheerios. I don't know if I want to walk down to the store in my pajamas for them. But I do love them.”

Ifs Knows Want Happens Walks Stores Honey Nuts Pajamas

Author:Michael K. Williams

“I haven't had a problem with being typecast, but if I was only getting one type of role, I wouldn't mind. What I'm worried about is not working.”

Ifs Mind Problem Roles Havens Type Worried

Author:Michael K. Williams

“If you've ever felt oppressed on any level, there's something from 'The Wire' that you can take and identify with.”

Ifs Felt Levels Oppressed Wire

Author:Michael K. Williams

“If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.”

Ifs Together Serious

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.”

Ifs Has Beens Church Middle Century Built Plenty Decline Secular Mantras Demise Bursting 18th Century

Author:N. T. Wright

“I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any!”

Ifs Trying Wells Eye Artist Bits East Shade Ancestor Mixtures Eyelids Anglo Saxon Make Up Artist

Author:Olivia Williams

“The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?”

Ifs Three Four Written Extraordinary Honestly Live By Ancestor Anchors Paragraph Written Word

Author:Randy Wayne White

“I believe that we are given strength and help from a power much larger than ourselves. I believe if I humble myself that this power will come through me, and help me create work that is bigger than I would have ever been able to have done alone.”

Ifs Believe Done Helping Able Given I Believe Bigger Humble Help Me

Author:Rebecca Wells

“If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say.”

Ifs Way Littles Mother Found Father Speak Voice Heard Brother Quiet Best Way Shut Up Older Brother Little Sister

Author:Peter Welch

“If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred.”

People Ifs Thinking Should Asks Pay Percent Hundred Bills Debt Spending Significant Obligation Misunderstanding Ceilings Glass Ceiling Debt Ceiling

Author:Peter Welch

“Last night, I had a telephone townhall for my constituents back in Vermont, and we had 11,500 people on it. And I had people on Social Security saying if getting fewer benefits will help us on the debt, they're for it. And I had a farmer saying that he's had subsidies for 35 years but we can't afford them anymore.”

People Ifs Years Helping Lasts Night Social Security Benefits Debt Farmers Fewer Telephones Social Security Last Night Constituents Subsidies Vermont

Author:Peter Welch

“If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.”

Ifs Knows Philosophy Wealth Money Know How Stones Philosopher Poor Richard Frugality

Book:The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

“If I'm just in dungarees, I don't think I would intimidate anyone.”

Ifs Thinking Intimidating Dungarees

Author:Rachel Weisz

“If they're working in a workshop somewhere, where there is, let's say, uh... only twenty people, or something like that, that's still, when they work and do a scene, that's still working in front of somebody.”

People Ifs Stills Fronts Scene Twenties Workshops

Author:Ray Walston

“If I get two lines in the script, I somehow turn it into 20. I've got a bit of a bad habit of doing that, of just embellishing my little moment.”

Ifs Littles Two Moments Turns Bits Lines Habit Scripts Bad Habits Little Moments

Author:Rebel Wilson

“My family keeps me pretty grounded. Like if I try anything diva, they're like, 'Oh shut up. Go and do the dishwasher.'”

Ifs Trying My Family Shut Up Grounded Dishwashers

Author:Rebel Wilson

“But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses nor fine furniture.”

People Ifs Want Eye House Fine Clothes Blind Appearance Ruins Furniture

Book:The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin

Source: The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin

“Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone.”

Ifs Use Ability Attention Stones Hood Stepping Stones Flashy

Author:Richard Widmark

“The big and the fast beat the small and the fast. If you check out the NBA today, they're big and fast.”

Ifs Bigs Today Beats Checks Nba

Author:G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.

“If I was doing something for the money, I'd be quite miserable.”

Ifs Miserable

Author:Ricky Williams

“If I can walk, I'll play.”

Ifs I Can Play Walks

Author:Ricky Williams

“If you like a story that's totally different and won't know which way it's going... where it's go ing to end up and which way it's going to take you, then I think my work fits the bill.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Different Ends Stories Fit Bills

Author:S. Robson Walton

“If you'd rather go to the football game than read a comic, that's fine. I'd rather do both.”

Ifs Games Football Fine Comic Football Game

Author:S. Robson Walton

“Folks, if you give people things for free, don't blame them for taking them.”

People Ifs Giving Blame Folks

Author:Rob Woodall

“If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.”

Ifs Time All Things Time Management Wasting Time Poor Richard Wasted Time Wasting My Time Wasting Your Time Wasted My Time

Book:Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

“Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life?”

Ifs Writing Use Song Vision Vision Of Life

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.”

Ifs Abraham

Author:Sam Waterston

“I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.”

Ifs Sometimes Done Interest Careers Broke If I Could Offering

Author:Sam Waterston

“The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.”

Ifs Ideas Would Be Actors Russia Clever Very Clever Laughable

Author:Samuel West

“When people say, 'If I had my life over again I wouldn't do anything different,' well, I'd do everything differently just for the variety.”

People Ifs Wells Different Variety

Author:Samuel West

“I'm not very good at relaxing. Reading's the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the time. I mean, I don't think there's a moment of the day when I wouldn't be if I was left alone.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Moments Reading Left Very Good Bus Tubes Left Alone

Author:Samuel West

“I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.”

Ifs Life Is Enjoy Life Is Short

Author:Trisha Yearwood

“Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.”

Ifs Made Passion Music Is

Author:Trisha Yearwood

“I think people are tired of religion and how it divides and damages people. You can name it whatever you want, Islam or Christianity, but if you have a system in which God is distant and angry all the time, and you're trying to please him through the right disciplines, it isn't going to work for everyone.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Trying Names Christianity Discipline Please Angry Tired Islam Damage Divides Going To Work

Author:William P. Young

“I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as to how it should be, you'd better have a clear understanding if this is doable and will work.”

Ifs Thinking Should Mind Eye Nations Understanding Clear Building Be You Nation Building

Author:Anthony Zinni

“I think the Mogadishu effect, if I had to define it, is we need to be more careful where we decide to commit US forces, and for what reason, and to make a clear judgment as to what we can and can't do and whether it's in our interests, or we could afford the resources that it would take to make the situation right.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Reason Force Interest Situation Clear Effects Judgment Resources Careful Commit Mogadishu

Author:Anthony Zinni

“I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Sometimes Happens Games Sports Knowing Wind One Day Throwing Anything Can Happen

Author:Barry Zito

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