If I Could Quotes - Page 28

• There are people I'm drawn to that you just can't do a tiny, no-budget movie with. I would like to pursue some of that stuff, to see if I could do a movie with some of those people. And I don't really write scripts myself, but if I read a script I thought was really great, I would totally be up for doing a more traditional movie. It's just that I don't exist in that world.
  right now.

  Joe Swanberg

  Writing, People, World

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• So, regarding the time frame, I'm only too willing to admit that my crystal ball, like everybody else's, is cracked. If I could predict precisely, I would have started predicting the stock market and would now be living with a bunch of young women on Bora Bora, having bought it.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Crystals, Balls, Bora Bora

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• I went to the bathroom and threw some water on my face, combed my hair. If I could only comb that face, I thought, but I can't.

  Charles Bukowski

  Hair, Water, Faces

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• If I could dwell where Israfel hath dwelt and he where I he might not sing so wildly well a mortal melody while a bolder note then this might swell from my lyre in the sky.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sky, Might, Notes

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works”, p.79, Lulu.com

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• There's so many ways to be a voice and that's what I'm figuring out. Being an artist, being an actor, it's about telling stories that could heal, that could open up discussion that could make the community better. There are many (Latino) stories that need to be told and haven't been told right. If I could help be that voice then that's what I'm going to do, because this is a reality for me.

  Richard Cabral

  Artist, Reality, Voice

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• If I could, I'd live in the nude, like Eve in paradise.

  Shakira

  Paradise, Ifs

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• If I could look back at the seeds of faith, they were planted back then. I remember in my early teenage years - when, naturally, we become more rebellious, prideful, self-directed and self-willed - I had this nun, Sister Mary Martinella, I'll never forget her - only because of one thing that she said that stuck in my spirit. And it was a rebuke.

  Patricia Mauceri

  Teenage, Years, Self

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I think to be a rich and successful person in Roman society would be pretty fabulous. They had all of the comforts we want now - central heating, baths, medicine. If I could choose not to indulge in all the things they did I don't agree with, then I could be perfectly comfortable without a mobile phone, computer or anything.

  Martin Shaw

  Successful, Thinking, Indulge In

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.

  Edgar Degas

  Black And White, Way, My Own

  Edgar Degas (1963). “Degas”

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• It's an honor to be compared with Terry Bradshaw. If I could do half of what he did, I'd be very happy.

  Ben Roethlisberger

  Honor, Half, Very Happy

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• If I could wish one thing for anyone, it would be to not have to do anything his entire life-just go along and when you feel like doing something, do it.

  Bode Miller

  Wish, Would Be, Feels

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• When I was little, I asked God if I could meet my mom just one more time, and my prayer was answered in 2001. It was weird.

  Gilbert Arenas

  Mom, Prayer, Littles

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• As a Welshman that can't sing, I never feel more proud to be Welsh than when I hear the Treorchy Male Choir - the Master Choir of them all. If I could sing I would apply for membership myself.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Males, Proud, Membership

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• I didn't know if I could make it to the big leagues without going through Triple-A.

  Matt Kemp

  League, Bigs, Knows

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• If I could wake all of the women of Asia, India could be won in a day.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Asia, Ifs

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• I had dropped a good design, which I had once bent my thoughts upon, and that was to try if I could not make some of my barley into malt, and then try to brew myself some beer.

  Daniel Defoe

  Beer, Design, Trying

  Daniel Defoe (1719). “Robinson Crusoe: The Illustrated Edition”, p.155, Top Five Books LLC

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• If I could not go to heaven with but a party, I would not go there at all. Therefore, I am not of the party of federalists. But I am much further from that of the anti-federalists.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Party, Heaven, Federalist

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• If I could finance my own movies, I would be doing it.

  Ryuhei Kitamura

  Would Be, Finance, My Own

  Source: collider.com

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• Theater is the only thing I always came back to. When I was 9, I asked my mom if I could be on TV. She was like, "Well, okay. You can try."

  Liana Liberato

  Mom, Trying, Tvs

  Interview with Rachel Small, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 5, 2014.

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• I always stayed away from the studio environment as much as possible. But I just wanted to see if I could work in one. It's not easy. Just having an engineer's assistant around is enough for me to be uncomfortable. With more than one person there in the room, it feels strange.

  Jack White

  Rooms, Assistants, Strange

  "The Raconteurs". Interview with Jonathan Durbin, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.

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• For most people who write, writing is a compulsion. If I could be healed of it, I would, and I think a lot of people who write feel the same way.

  T. R. Pearson

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• I like a lot of wheels. If I could have eight wheels, I would.

  Jon Stewart

  Eight, Wheels, Ifs

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• I'm a terrible cook, but if I could cook, I would see that in art as well, it's how much creative energy you put into something.

  Tracey Emin

  Art, Creative, Energy

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• The oboe's a horn made of wood.
  I'd play you a tune if I could,
  But the reeds are a pain,
  And the fingering's insane.
  It's the ill wind that no one blows good.

  Ogden Nash

  Pain, Blow, Wind

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• As Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor. My sister [Maggie Gyllenhaal] came up to me recently after she saw this movie, Southpaw, the movie I did, and she thought there was this exploration of that type of presentation, and a bit of representation as well, if I could be totally honest, where she was deeply moved.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Actors, Saws, Honest

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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