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“If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have.”

People Ifs Made I Can Careers Illusion Illusion Of Control

Author:Diane Lane

“At the end of the day, even if my part is a bit goofy, the key thing is that I'm doing what I love to do, and that's to make people laugh.”

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Author:Eugene Levy

“Everyone has their own path in life, no matter if it's being a celebrity or a singer. Quite frankly, I didn't move to Nashville and tell myself I wanted to be a singer because I wanted to be a celebrity or I wanted to be somebody that people admired. I wasn't about that. I just loved music.”

People Ifs Matter Wanted Moving Path Singers Nashville

Author:Jake Owen

“If I'm happy with the song and it's a hit song or not, for the rest of my life, I can hang my hat on knowing I did the best I could, and I'll enjoy getting out there and doing it. That's all that really matters for me. The icing on the cake is people actually enjoy it and sing it back to you. That's when you know that you've done something great.”

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Author:Jake Owen

“Some people manage to make that transition from child actor to adult actor seamlessly. But I felt that if I spent my whole life on a film set without taking a few years to do something else, all I would ever know about was film sets.”

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Author:Anna Popplewell

“If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.”

People Ifs Thinking Care Company Painting Obligation If You Care

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“Even if you look at the 'Paranormal Activity' movies, at the end of the movie things get really crazy and nutty, but they all start in a very mundane situation that people can relate to, and that's also to some degree what we tried to do in 'Chernobyl Diaries.”

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Author:Oren Peli

“The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you think about it, journalism is one of the pillars on which our society is perched.”

People Ifs Thinking America Realizing Quality Journalism Dependent Our Society Quality Of Life Pillars

Author:Scott Pelley

“The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.”

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Author:Tamora Pierce

“I mean, people don't know what race I am. They never know if I'm Hawaiian or Italian or Mexican or Spanish or white. I could play Jewish, I could play anything.”

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Author:Tyler Posey

“If they don't think, people act senselessly.”

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Author:Andrei Platonov

“People come up to me at conventions and say, 'I was such an outcast, I felt like such a geek, and when I saw you, you made me feel like such a normal person.' It's my favorite thing to hear, because that's how I felt when I was a kid. If Goth would've been around, I would've definitely been Goth. But there wasn't such a thing, so I was just weird.”

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Author:Cassandra Peterson

“If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function.”

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Author:Charles W. Pickering

“Gov. Romney said he would veto the Dream Act. Gov. Romney essentially said the 11 million people ought to just go home, they ought to self-deport. President Romney, if he is elected, is not going to fix our immigration system.”

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Author:David Plouffe

“People would say you look weak if you're not cursing the opposition and driving around in a big black car while always wearing a tie. Above all, to be 'strong' you're always supposed to be giving orders.”

People Ifs Giving Looks Bigs Order Strong Black Car Weak Driving Supposed To Be Ties Opposition Cursing

Author:George Papandreou

“Obviously if you are an accountant, a criminal lawyer, a president, or a senator, or if you work in a funeral parlor, you have to wear a tie, but more and more people are wearing very casual clothes.”

People Ifs President Clothes Criminals Lawyer Ties Funeral Senators Casual Accountants Parlor Criminal Law

Author:Jean Pigozzi

“Most people I run into say, I haven't missed an episode. Either you like Survivor or you don't, but if you do, you're a loyal viewer.”

People Ifs Running Havens Survivor Loyal Episodes Viewers

Author:Jeff Probst

“I think if you look at yesterday's New York Times poll, particularly when you judge Democrats in Congress versus the Republicans in Congress, people put a little more faith, or even a little more than a little more faith in the Democrats in Congress.”

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Author:John Podesta

“If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans have something of a lock on the House until a redistricting occurs after 2010, particularly as a result of what DeLay did in Texas.”

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Author:John Podesta

“You're wrong if you think young people don't deserve the vote.”

People Ifs Thinking Young Deserve Vote

Author:Lucy Powell

“I want the people of the Philippines to be happy, even if they have nothing.”

People Ifs Want Philippines

Author:Manny Pacquiao

“If I can go through what I've been through and do a television show with my son and then be a boy from the hood making records for the people I make records for, that's reality.”

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Author:Master P

“I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.”

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Author:Natalie Portman

“If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.”

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Author:Oscar Peterson

“I always tell myself that when you're playing a character, pretend they're on trial and you're giving the best witness of their life. You really need to think about every element of the character and represent them properly, as if they were a real person. You want to give 100 percent of what they're worth and what they deserve as people.”

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Author:Pauley Perrette

“But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules.”

People Ifs Way Should States United United States Protect Rejects Jurisdiction Legality

Book:An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror

Source: An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror

“If you're billed as a comedian, people will accept anything you say as light-hearted and not with intent behind it.”

People Ifs Light Behinds Accepting Comedian Hearted Light Hearted

Author:Megan Fox

“People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.”

People Ifs Fame Hollywood Assuming

Author:Megan Fox

“When I talk about my husband, I feel as if people roll their eyes. It's like when you're 16 and order a martini, and the waiter says, 'Do you think I'm stupid?'. They can't grasp that I'm old enough to be married.”

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Author:Megan Fox

“People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.”

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Author:Zara Phillips

“I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“I really don't have a problem showing the ugly side of people. If that means my wearing no makeup, that's fine. To me, that's beautiful.”

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Author:Amy Ryan

“The idea of 'talking white,' a lot of people grew up around that, just the idea that if you speak with proper diction and come off as educated that it's not black and that it's actually anti-black and should be considered only something that white people would do.”

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Author:Chance the Rapper

“The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what type of project this is? If it's all original music and it's got this much emotion around it and it connects this way with this many people, is it a mixtape? What's an 'album' these days, anyways?”

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Author:Chance the Rapper

“I don't really talk about my personal life. It's a strange and funny and weird thing. Sometimes you have a conversation with someone and the paparazzi snaps a picture of you and people decide you're dating. If I try to answer everything people say, I would be up all night.”

People Ifs Trying Sometimes Would Be Night Answers Strange Conversation Dating Personal Life All Night Snaps Paparazzi Weird Things Up All Night

Author:Tracee Ellis Ross

“But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.”

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Author:Amy Ray

“I don't care if people know who I am or if I make a ton of money, I just love my work so much.”

People Ifs Knows Care Don't Care Who I Am I Don't Care

Author:Crystal Reed

“I started to be much happier in my relationships when I realized that I can only control myself. That way, you don't worry about people and don't waste your time thinking, 'What if he cheats on me?' You can't control that.”

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Author:Crystal Reed

“The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get through the day. When I'm writing, I have to trick myself as a writer. If I consciously say, 'I'm writing,' I feel all this pressure and somehow it doesn't feel as real as when it doesn't seem to count as much.”

People Ifs Feels Writing Real Whole Seems Like You Pressure Tricks

Author:David O. Russell

“Customers don't know what they want. There's plenty of good psychology research that shows that people are not able to accurately predict how they would behave in the future. So asking them, 'Would you buy my product if it had these three features?' or 'How would you react if we changed our product this way?' is a waste of time. They don't know.”

People Ifs Knows Way Want Shows Able Three Psychology Changed Products Waste Research Asking Customers Plenty Features Behave Wasting Time

Author:Eric Ries

“If you have doubts about someone, lay on a couple of jokes. If he doesn't find anything funny, your radar should be screaming. Then I would say be patient with people who are negative, because they're really having a hard time.”

People Ifs Should Hard Doubt Couple Jokes Negative Lays Patient Hard Times Be Patient Radar Having A Hard Time

Author:Michael J. Fox

“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.”

People Ifs School Young Music Is Musical Fewer Implications Musical Education

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.”

People Ifs Problem Film Doors Proud Down And Checks Good Times Having A Good Time Trilogies

Author:Michael J. Fox

“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.”

People Ifs Knows World Want Humans Use Race Trouble Human Race Analogies Malls World Of Warcraft

Author:John Romero

“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

“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.”

“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.”

People Ifs Long Ends Enough Found Sticks Awards Survivor Receiving Referring Prestigious

Author:Martha Reeves

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

People Ifs Thinking Today Wonder Conservative

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

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