Best thinking & ifs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I don't think if you asked any of my childhood friends they would say that I had a weird childhood; they might say there weren't a lot of regular rules, the conversations in the house were always very open, dreams were a great thing to talk about, everybody was making something all the time.”

Ifs Thinking Dream Might House Childhood Conversation Great Things Childhood Friend

Author:Jennifer Lynch

“I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Stories Tone

Author:Julia Leigh

“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

“Even Rod Woodson will tell you his best year he had as a professional was when he was 36 years old. If you think about why, you're much wiser.”

Ifs Thinking Years Wiser Best Year

Author:Ray Lewis

“All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.”

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Author:Aaron Levie

“I generally play villains once every three or four years by choice because I get offered villainous roles a lot, because of the way I look and whatever. And I tend to avoid them because I think you can end up in a cul-de-sac of your own making if you're cast in that.”

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Author:Kevin McKidd

“If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility.”

People Ifs Thinking Honest Critics Spots Credibility

Author:Leonard Maltin

“I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.”

Ifs Thinking Children Littles Country Running Black Imagination Dark

Author:Malcolm McDowell

“So if I think of something in my head I don't have to do it. If I can't do I don't do it, I do something else.”

Ifs Thinking I Can

Author:Marian McPartland

“Any actress will tell you - it's really hard. If you're not an A-list Hollywood movie star, if you're in the middle, there are people who assume you wouldn't do certain things without even asking you, when actually you probably would. And there are people who always think you are busy doing something else.”

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Author:Martine McCutcheon

“Have a hand in your own treatment. I have nothing but praise for our doctors, but I think they could help us better, and we can help them if we work together.”

Ifs Thinking Helping Hands Together Doctors Praise Treatment Working Together

Author:Mary Ann Mobley

“I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up with it, with the insecurities. There are times when I long for continuity and stability, but I also love the idea of not knowing what I'll be doing next - or even if I'm going to work.”

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Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Ought

Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“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

“If I wanted to pitch that bad, I probably would. But I don't think I'm in that stage.”

Ifs Thinking Wanted Stage

Author:Pedro Martinez

“I have to leave the games now if the announcer says something I don't agree with. I'm thinking, 'Peyton, it is not healthy to be all worked up before a game.”

Ifs Thinking Games Healthy Agree Announcers Peyton

Author:Peyton Manning

“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

“I think often I learn the most from other people's mistakes. If I'm in the audience watching an actor and thinking, 'I don't believe you,' I spend the rest of the play working out why I don't believe them.”

People Ifs Thinking Believe Play Actors Mistake Audience Don't Believe Work Out I Don't Believe You

Author:Richard Madden

“If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.”

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Author:Rob Morrow

“I really enjoy playing 'Tiger Woods' on the Wii, and you can set the levels to easy, medium, or hard, so I think it's definitely a good way for kids to learn the motion of a golf swing if they want to get into the sport. It makes it more fun for them as well.”

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Author:Rory McIlroy

“I think that's an important lesson for young people who want to be artists: You have to find someone who believes in you and who will help you find that time where you don't have to think about a job but just making work. If I didn't have those people in my life, I wouldn't be in the position I'm in.”

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Author:Ryan McGinley

“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

“As far as expense, I think if 'Twilight' does well enough, then we should be able to do the big expensive stuff for the sequels. I mean, we have to have werewolves, there's no way around it. They have to be there.”

Ifs Thinking Way Should Wells Mean Doe Enough Bigs Able Stuff Expensive Expenses Twilight Werewolf Sequels

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“Because love encompasses everything, nothing is unimportant, including tonight's dinner menu. Think about it for a minute. If you were pure love, the loving parent of all life, how would you want people to eat?”

People Ifs Thinking Want Parent Minutes Pure Including Dinner Tonight Unimportant Pure Love Menus Loving Parents

Book:Love Yourself Thin: The Revolutionary Spiritual Approach to Weight Loss

Source: Love Yourself Thin: The Revolutionary Spiritual Approach to Weight Loss

“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

“As a matter of fact, I am an uncle. I have nine nephews and nieces. I'm not sure if they think I'm all that quick with a quip. But I'm quick with a spank.”

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Author:Dean Norris

“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.”

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Author:Jo Nesbo

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

Ifs Thinking Character Comedy Obstacles

Author:Kunal Nayyar

“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!”

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Author:Duncan Jones

“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

“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

“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

“Now I look back and think if I'd spent more time enjoying myself instead of crying into my pillow over men, my 20s would have been fabulous!”

Ifs Thinking Men Looks Has Beens Enjoy Cry More Time Fabulous Pillow

Author:Denise Van Outen

“If you don't like something, talk about something else that's great and maybe someone else will discover it and think it's great too.”

Ifs Thinking Like Something

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.”

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Author:Frank Ocean

“If you really want something you just hang with it. We think our future's ahead and not behind.”

Ifs Thinking Want Behinds Our Future Want Something

Author:Gerald Caiafa

“I just think you would never kill and cut up a human to wear so why do it to animals? I just think it's horrible, I would never wear fur, although I guess if it was a really vintage piece you might just get away with it.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Might Animal Pieces Cutting Horrible Get Away Fur Vintage

Author:Kelly Osbourne

“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

“Just thinking about that, if that were to really happen, if an alien were to come down and really abduct you, how terrifying and how earth-shattering would that be? Your whole world is just destroyed. God is destroyed. It's kind of a fascinating thing to think about.”

Ifs Thinking World Kind Whole Happens Earth Down And Whole World Destroyed Aliens Fascinating Shattering

Author:Evan Peters

“It's very important that you focus on winning games and being consistent down the stretch. I think that's what we're focused on. All of the other stuff about who wins and who loses and how many wins do we need, if we're focusing on that, then that's not good.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Important Games Winning Stuff Loses Focus Football Focused Consistent American Football Winning Games

Author:Mike Singletary

“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.”

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Author:R. L. Stine

“I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.”

Ifs Thinking Animal Talking Plant Environmental Saving Translate Plants And Animals

Author:Jim Fowler

“Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same bigger object in four dimensions? ...What if humanity- that collective noun we so often employ- really is, at a higher level, a singular noun? What it what we perceive in three dimensions as seven billion individual human beings are really all just aspects of one giant being?”

“If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn't educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the school and giving them special time to blog more - and giving them extra credit besides.”

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Author:Cory Doctorow

“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

“I love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If you have a notebook and a nice pen you can go off somewhere, you can write that's solar powered. You can drop it or get it wet and pretty much all of your work will continue to be there. If you suddenly decide to look up a word or check a reference you will not look up four hours later, blinking, finding yourself somehow in the middle of an Ebay auction you never had any plans to be part of.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this subterfuge that we are giving them no more than they deserve. It is a meanness which we associate with criminals and vagabonds; a piece of crawling and sneaking...Men whose race is universally known, will unblushingly adopt a false name as a mask, and after a year or two pretend to treat it as an insult if their original and true name be used in its place.”

Source: The Jews

“I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.”

Ifs Thinking Different Play Would Be Actors Challenges Roles Type Aspire

Author:Vanessa Lengies

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