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“My favorite music to sing would be my own songs, my original songs, just because I know them, you know I write the tunes, so my favorite songs are the newest ones that I write. That's what I like to sing the most, because it means something, it's real, it comes from me.”

Knows Writing Mean Real Would Be Song My Own Originals My Favorite Tunes Favorite Song Favorite Music

Author:Paul McDonald

“Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.”

Ifs Thinking World Real Would Be Morning Magic Tears Get Up Real World Veils Dreary

Author:Victoria Moran

“I think especially in her position, a highly successful professional woman, it would be a real exception to have an unwed child.”

Thinking Children Real Would Be Politics Successful Position Exception

Author:Dan Quayle

“When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was how it moved things on from 'Sleeping Beauty'-esque romance novels where the girl had to wait for the hero. This would be girl-driven, very different, I decided - and indeed it is.”

World Firsts Ideas Different Real Would Be School Romance Girl Waiting Sleep Novel Sweet Hero High School Decided Moved Driven Real World Valleys Romance Novel Microcosm Sleeping Beauty

Author:Francine Pascal

“My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It's a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty.”

World Feels Heart Real Hard Stories Would Be Lines Mom My Mom Screens Selfish Horrible Great Things Guilty Life Story Open Heart Being Selfish Amazing Woman

Author:Nikki Reed

“How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say 'No' at the same time, it sounds like neighing - yet people are perpetually doing it in novels. If they did it in real life they would be locked up.”

People Ifs Writing Trying Real Done Would Be Earth Sound Novel Laughing Real Life Locked Locked Up

Author:Hilaire Belloc

“I adore water, so it would be a real adventure to visit the Amazon before they chop down all the trees.”

Real Would Be Water Tree Adventure Adore Amazon

Author:Michelle Ryan

“Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.”

Real Would Be Moral Certainty Uncertainty Being Real Wondrous

Book:The End of the World as We Know it: Social Science for the Twenty-first Century

Source: The End of the World as We Know it: Social Science for the Twenty-first Century

“My dream career would be to be in things that have real heart and are telling real stories but while doing that, you're getting really big laughs. I don't necessarily love the straight crazy comedies. 'Caddyshack' is amazing, but there's not a lot of new 'Caddyshack's.”

Heart Real Stories Dream Bigs Would Be Careers Laughing Comedy Crazy Real Story Real Heart

Author:Jake M. Johnson

“In the 1940s, cigarettes would be shown in classy situations, endorsed by celebrities - real A-list Hollywood stars in America - the ads would make claims about tobacco quality or manufacturing science and, bizarrely, some brands had what almost amounted to health claims.”

Real Would Be America Stars Quality Situation Hollywood Claims Lists Brands Ads Cigarette Manufacturing Tobacco Hollywood Stars

Author:Peter York

“My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.”

People Giving Kind Said Real Would Be Guy Dad Scripts Treatment Be Kind My Sister

Author:Rae Dawn Chong

“I'm kind of a scaredy cat - I don't watch a ton of them. I mean, I started reaching this script at night and had to wait until the next morning to finish it so it would be light out. It really scared me. The scary movies I like are The Others and Pan's Labyrinth - they're so scary but they're about real things, and hopefully this is too.”

Kind Mean Real Light Would Be Night Next Waiting Watches Morning Cat Scripts Scared Scary Hopefully Reaching Real Things Labyrinth

Author:Keri Russell

“It would be a real failure if agreeing that it [abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue.”

Ifs Real Would Be Issues Failure Abortion

Author:Rowan Williams

“I have in the past declared that in order to achieve a real, just and durable peace, I would be willing to make painful compromises. But we cannot make any compromise on the security of our citizens and their right to live without the threat of terrorism and violence.”

Real Would Be Past Order Violence Achieve Security Willing Citizens Threat Painful Terrorism Compromise

Author:Ariel Sharon

“If I could rest anywhere, it would be in Arkansas, where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grows nowhere else on the face of the universal earth.”

Ifs Men Real Would Be Earth Faces Grows Half He Man Universal Horse If I Could Arkansas Alligators

Author:Davy Crockett

“Every land or property owner in America would be tickled to death to pay 45 per cent of his profits, if he didn't have to pay anything if he didn't make it.”

Ifs Real Would Be America Pay Land Property Profit Owners Cents

Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

“Wall Street is being investigated, but they are not asleep while it's being done. You see where the Senate took that tax off the sales of stocks, didn't you? Saved 'em $48,000,000. Now, why don't somebody investigate the Senate and see who got to them to get that tax removed? That would be a real investigation.”

Real Done Would Be Business Streets Wall Taxes Saved Ems Senate Investigation Being Done

Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

“Living on the street as a kid changed the way I looked at everything. It was a different time and while it had its dangers, it was nothing like it would be today. It was the Summer of Love and there was a real sense of community among us. We were hippies who looked out for each other instead of trying to rip each other off. We only had to watch out for the police who liked to roust us just on general principles, and the kids who came in from the suburbs to do a little hippie-bashing.”

Way Trying Littles Different Real Would Be Kids Today Community Principles Watches Streets Danger Changed Summer Police Rip Hippie Living On Suburbs Different Times

Author:Charles de Lint

“Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn lucky. Without Hollywood it would be a mail order city. Everything in the catalogue you could get better somewhere else.”

Real Would Be Hate Order Individual Cities Ought Lucky Hollywood Structure Damn Get Better Los Angeles Mail Somewhere Else Catalogues

Book:The Little Sister: A Novel

Source: The Little Sister: A Novel

“Everything is very convenient now and it would be real nice if somehow people started going back to the movie theater. And it's people of my generation. It's their fault in a lot of ways, people over 40. It's their fault that the only movies are about robots and beautiful vampires. It's wild, all vampires are beautiful.”

People Ifs Way Real Would Be Beautiful Nice Generations Theater Faults Vampire Being Real Robots Convenient My Generation Movie Theater

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy: it keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.”

Long Real Would Be Interest Economy Increase Rate Debt Productivity Income Finance Saving Beneficial Savings Interest Rate National Debt

Author:Alan Greenspan

“The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would be of any real use. One would say it was there for trivialities only, since in a crisis they are usually dense, fatally doing the wrong thing. It is hardly too much to say that most domestic tragedies are caused by the feminine intuition of men and the want of it in women.”

Men Want Real Use Seems Would Be Too Much Tragedy Crisis Instinct Intuition Occasions Desert Feminine Wrong Things Dense Marvellous Triviality

Book:The little Ottleys: Love's shadow. Tenterhooks. Love at second sight

Source: The little Ottleys: Love's shadow. Tenterhooks. Love at second sight

“Even if heaven were real, and measured as Revelation says, so many cubits this wayand that, how gimcrack a place it would be, crammed with its pavements of gold, its gates of pearl and topaz, like a gigantic chunkof costume jewelry.”

Ifs Real Would Be Heaven Gold Revelations Gates Pearls Costumes Jewelry Pavement Topaz

Author:Margaret Laurence

“We are entirely for the idea that Europe shall be free from nuclear weapons, from medium-range weapons as well as tactical weapons. That would be a real zero option.”

Wells Ideas Real Would Be Weapons Europe Nuclear Mediums Range Zero Nuclear Weapons Tactical Detente

Author:Leonid Brezhnev

“Unfortunately, all life on earth - the only life we know - represents, for all its current variety, the results of a single experiment , for every earthly species evolved from the common ancestry of a single origin. We desperately need a repetition of the experiment (several would be better, but let's not be greedy!) in order to make a judgement. Mars represents our first real hope for a second experiment - the sine qua non - for any proper answer for the question of questions.”

Knows Needs Firsts Real Would Be Earth Order Answers Results Common Species Currents Experiments Variety Judgement Mars Repetition Greedy Ancestry

Book:Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

“Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service... We have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that teach men both courage and restraint would be adaptable to women or effective in a crisis. But the evidence of history and comparative studies of other species suggest that women as a fighting body might be far less amenable to the rules that prevent war from becoming a massacre and, with the use of modern weapons, that protect the survival of all humanity. That is what I meant by saying that women in combat might be too fierce.”

“It's really tough to make a name for yourself without compromising and without fitting yourself into a real specific mold. When I made the choice that I would be involved in every aspect of music and not necessarily make music for radio or MTV, I was saying, 'OK, this is me. You decide who it is.'”

Made Real Would Be Choices Names Involved Tough Aspect Radio Compromise Mold Fitting Mtv This Is Me Saying Ok

Author:Josh Groban

“It's the band that really counts and not our egos. Egos probably destroyed more bands than anything else did, and that's something we want to avoid at all costs. We want to give the audience something real, something spectacular, and if it would be about egos, it would hardly be worth their time.”

Ifs Want Giving Real Would Be Audience Cost Band Ego Destroyed Spectacular Something Real

Author:Chester Bennington

“The issue I focus on the most is extreme poverty. I think it's kind of out of sight out of mind. I wish there would be more stories about that to connect people to what's happening. To personalize it, to make it real to people, to inspire them to action.”

People Thinking Mind Kind Real Stories Would Be Action Wish Poverty Issues Focus Inspire Happenings Sight Extremes Extreme Poverty Of Sight Out Of Mind

Author:John Legend

“Our guys working this area for a living all believe Chalabi and all those guys in their Bond Street suits are charlatans. To take them for a source of anything except a fantasy trip would be a real stretch. But it's an article of faith among those with no military experience that the Iraqi military is low-hanging fruit.”

Believe Real Would Be Guy Fantasy Streets Military Source Lows Areas Fruit Suits Articles Charlatans Military Experience

Author:Scott Ritter

“I suspect people would be in for a real shock if they knew the depths of his [Obama's] historical ignorance.”

People Ifs Real Would Be Ignorance Historical Depth Shock Suspects

Author:Charles Foster Johnson

“Doing nothing about climate change is still a fairly common affliction, even in this day and age. What to do with those people, who are together threatening everybody's existence on this planet? Clearly we don't really think they should be blown up, that's just a joke for the mini-movie, but maybe a little amputating would be a good place to start?”

“The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeeth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne's story of travel to the moon is not science fiction because they go by rocket but because of where they go. It would be as much science fiction if they went by rubber band.”

Ifs Real Stories Would Be Fiction Novel Land Century Moon Band Science Fiction Lays Exploration Fabulous Rockets Rubber Rubber Bands

Author:Philip K. Dick

“'Allen Gregory' came about because we wanted an animated show and we were just tossing around some ideas about me playing a 7-year-old. We thought that would be cool, because we couldn't do that in real life.”

Years Ideas Real Shows Would Be Wanted Real Life Animated Being Cool

Author:Jonah Hill

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