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“The Goonies' is classic. That's, like, the movie I bring with me if I go out of town for a long time, because it just makes me think of the best times I've seen it with my friends growing up. Dude, everybody knows that movie, everybody watches that film. Best family film ever made.”

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Author:Logan Lerman

“Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that; I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes.”

Ifs Knows Firsts I Can Asks Directors Hollywood Ask Me Tarantino Hollywood Movies

Author:Melanie Laurent

“If people perceive themselves as having very little opportunities to be fulfilled, then it cheapens their life and outlook. The solution is to reverse it; make sure they know opportunities abound.”

People Ifs Knows Littles Opportunity Solutions Perceive Reverse Fulfilled Outlook

Author:Michael Lee-Chin

“Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say.”

Ifs Knows Ideas Play Beautiful Clear Pieces Orchestra

Author:Kurt Masur

“That's something Mary Lou Williams used to tell me: If you're not feeling right about what you're doing and you play a minor tune it all comes back, falls into place. I don't know if that's true, but I do it.”

Ifs Knows Play Feelings Used Fall Tunes Mary Minors Fall Into Place

Author:Marian McPartland

“You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Film Know How

Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“Yeah, you know, I performed occasionally. I was in such despair because I just - if I didn't have my music to connect with, I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be doing. There was never a 'B' plan here; it was just this. So it took me a long time to find my way.”

Ifs Knows Way Long Plans Figures Despair Long Time Yeah My Way Supposed To Be

Author:Melissa Manchester

“I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Hard Hurt Wonder Audience Office Boxes One Way These Days Just One Hurt Me Box Office

Author:Paul Mazursky

“I've been touring for so long, I've kind of honed into exactly what I am, I'm an artist so if you like it, you like it, if you don't you don't, you know?”

Ifs Knows Kind Long Artist Touring You Like It

Author:Paul McDonald

“You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.”

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Author:Rachel McAdams

“When you sit down and play your music for someone you respect, you get that feeling in your stomach of like: 'Oh my God...' You know if it's not great because you start to feel sick.”

Ifs Knows Feels Play Feelings Sick Down And Stomach

Author:Raine Maida

“If you're running for reelection in the House of Representatives race, you know, it's very important to you that you be on fairly good terms with the local affiliates in the largest market in your area. I mean you don't want to antagonize them.”

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Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.”

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Author:Roger McGuinn

“I mean I don't want to feel inferior to any other golfer in the world. You know if you do that, then you know you're giving them an advantage, you know, right off the - you know, right from the start.”

Ifs Knows World Want Giving Feels Mean Advantage Inferiors Golfers

Author:Rory McIlroy

“I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.”

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Author:Samantha Morton

“Everybody reads for me. I was never weird about that. I never minded coming in and reading. They should know if I'm the right person, and I should know if I want to do a movie.”

Ifs Knows Want Should Persons Reading Right Person

Author:Jodie Foster

“I don't have a burning desire to act strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality.”

Ifs Knows Persons Enough Young Desire Actors Personality Chosen Burning Burning Desire

Author:Jodie Foster

“The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.”

Ifs Knows Years Looks Made Hard Hard Times Awkward Wince

Author:Jodie Foster

“Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in every breath we take. And that they're also home to incredible animals like the orangutan and elephant, which will go extinct if we keep cutting down their forests.”

People Ifs Knows Home Animal Roles Cutting Planets Breaths Incredibles Critical Forests Elephants Lungs Our Planet Cutting Down Woods And Forests Orangutans

Author:Chris Noth

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

Ifs Knows Jobs Next Nervous

Author:Sam Neill

“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.”

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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

“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

“I love watching Hollywood movies - I just don't know if I'd be happy doing a Jurassic Park.”

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Author:Frances O'Connor

“We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I'm going to be alive, I want to be challenged - to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn't an easy way, but it's a rewarding way.”

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Author:Frank Ocean

“My general rule is that if everyone knew how to cook fresh produce from their local area, and Monday to Thursday within 20 minutes, you know, there's millions of recipes out there to be had.”

Ifs Knows Millions Minutes Produce Areas Locals Cooks Recipes Monday Thursday

Author:Jamie Oliver

“When you have little girls, you're the coolest person in the world. I know at some point that's going to end; in their adolescence I'll become the opposite of that, especially if I'm parked outside a high school party.”

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Author:Jerry O'Connell

“For sure, you don't believe the good stuff. I mean, the good stuff is just insane - wacky. If you don't take it too much to heart, it does help when the negative stuff hits. And you know the negative stuff is coming. It's got to! What comes up must come down.”

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Author:Julia Ormond

“It's funny to be discovered by a lot of people who didn't know you before. People always used to say, 'Do you shop at Home Depot?' or 'Does your kid go to such and such school?' They want to know why they know me, even if they don't know my name. I don't think that's a bad thing, by the way; I think it's nice to be kind of anonymously famous.”

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Author:Terry O'Quinn

“It's great if a pilot starts off great and if it doesn't start off so great it's not that big a deal: everybody's baby is born ugly. But you want to know, if given the opportunity: Where are we going? What's the story we're trying to tell?”

Ifs Knows Want Trying Stories Bigs Opportunity Given Born Deals Baby Ugly Pilots

Author:Timothy Olyphant

“If I'm bringing joy to people and entertaining people as an actor, then I should be grateful for that and act accordingly, you know?”

People Ifs Knows Should Joy Actors Grateful Entertaining Be Grateful Bringing Joy

Author:Ellen Pompeo

“I know people whose entire lives are ruined by fame. If you make yourself exclusive, people want to break that down, but if you go about doing your shopping, no one bugs you.”

People Ifs Knows Want Break Fame Shopping Ruined Bugs Exclusive

Author:Jonathan Pryce

“And Barry Levinson is insanely funny. I don't know if you know this, not everyone does, but he and Craig T. Nelson were a comedy team back in the coffeehouse days of the late '60s.”

Ifs Knows Doe Comedy Team Late Nelson

Author:Kevin Pollak

“Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!' The Japanese know perfectly well they would have used it had they had it. They accept the idea that war is war; they give no quarter and accept none. Total war, they recognize, knows no Queensberry Rules. If you develop a devastating new weapon during a total war, you use it; you do not put it into the War Museum.”

Source: The land of the rising yen: Japan

“Purple haze all in my eyes, don't know if it's day or night. You got me blowin', blowin' my mind. Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?”

Ifs Knows Mind Ends Eye Night Tomorrow Insanity End Times Purple Haze You Got Me Purple Haze

Author:Jimi Hendrix

“If you want to know why Republicans and conservatives are in a political crisis, you need only consider the fact that the Right's deeply held view now boils down to this: Taxes should not go up on the wealthy, and your health benefits should be cut.”

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Author:John Podhoretz

“If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.”

Ifs Knows Social Crisis Setting Settings

Author:Bill Nighy

“Well, first you have to love writing. A lot of authors love having written. But I enjoy the actual writing. Beside that, I think the main reason I can be so prolific is the huge amount of planning I do before I start to write. I do a very complete, chapter-by-chapter outline of every book I write. When I sit down to write, I already know everything that's going to happen in the book. This means I've done all the important thinking, and I can relax and enjoy the writing. I could never write so many books if I didn't outline them first.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Firsts Wells Mean I Can Important Book Reason Done Happens Enjoy Written Huge Amount Planning Relax Chapters Outlines

Author:R. L. Stine

“Can you be still and look inside?If so, then you know the truth is always available, and always responsive.”

Ifs Knows Looks Stills Spirituality Truth Is Available

Author:Laozi

“It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking bravery... Adults know too much about failure; they're more cynical and resigned and fearful.”

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Author:Lance Armstrong

“"You know that it is quite preposterous of you to chase rainbows," said the sane person to the poet. "Yet it would be rather beautiful if I did one day manage to catch one," mused the poet.”

Ifs Knows Persons Said Would Be Beautiful Science Poet One Day Manage Sane Rainbow

Book:Little Stories

Source: Little Stories

“If you listen to the news, read the news, you'd think we were still in a recession. Well, we're not in a recession. We've had growth; people need to know that. They need to be more upbeat, more positive.”

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Author:Dan Quayle

“I know when a story is finished when there is not a single thing more I can think to do to it. And since I know at the start what the last line will be, I know when I've reached that point as logically as I can that it's finished. As for the rewriting-it's not foolproof, of course, but if you're honest about having thought of every possibility and you still come back to what you have, what more can you do?”

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Author:Amy Hempel

“If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or bad - you're more likely to see that invisible thing that is invisible for the first few days in any new writing. We just can't know what all is in a sentence until there are several sentences to follow it. Pages of writing need more pages in order to be known, chapters need more chapters.”

Ifs Knows Needs Writing Firsts Order Waiting Hours Known Fate Written Pages Sentences Invisible Chapters Invisible Things

Author:Lynda Barry

“I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.”

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Author:Aaron Levie

“If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Wells Actors Fool Prepared Spouse Warts

Author:Adrian Lyne

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