If I Could Quotes - Page 31

• If I could have found what I needed at thirteen, I would not have lost so much of my life chasing vindication or death. Give some child, some thirteen-year old, the hope of the remade life. Tell the truth. Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you there is magic in it.

  Dorothy Allison

  Children, Writing, Years

  Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.145, Open Road Media

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• I love to sing. Seriously, in my past life I was Miley Cyrus or something. I swear I'm a singer, but I know I'm not. If I could sing, I would be the happiest person on Earth.

  Sloane Stephens

  Past, Would Be, Earth

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• If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting and I like watching him.

  Matt Kemp

  League, Trout, Want

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• There's art that I would readily buy if I could afford it, and enjoy, but would never write about because it doesn't seem significant.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Art, Writing, Significant

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't know if I could, like, see a face and know what the face of beauty looks like, but after I've seen it I know if I've felt like it was beauty.

  Julian Schnabel

  Looks, Faces, Knows

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I had a naïve idea that if I could tell the story, people would be outraged and do something about conditions in the jails.

  Patricia McConnell

  Ideas, Jail, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I kept writing short stories and sending out my manuscript, and it kept coming back like a bad penny. It was rejected all over town, quite often in very complimentary terms, but rejected nonetheless. Agents would return it saying that they loved it but didn't think they could sell it, or they would ask if I could change the collection into linked stories.

  Debra Dean

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I felt like if I could get the epiphany out of the way in my drafting process, through my eighth or tenth draft, then that can just be part of how I've assembled the character, and then we can move on and move forward with it. In general, I don't ever want to feel smarter than my characters, because I just feel like that's not a great way to write a story.

  Molly Antopol

  Moving, Writing, Character

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I try to write songs. At our concerts, we take the cream of the crop from my back catalogue and I don't know if I could write something now that would replace any of that. We don't lose any of the standards. We have lots of songs in rotation.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Song, Writing, Trying

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Every day at about four o'clock, I would go up to a farmhouse - or whatever kind of house was around - and knock on the door and say, "Hi, I'm biking across Canada, and I'm wondering if I could pitch my tent on your land." And sometimes people slammed the door in my face, but the vast majority of the time they said, "Of course," and then they said, "Come for dinner," and then they packed me food the next day and fed me breakfast and sometimes they got out the bottle of wine they'd been saving for a special occasion.

  Pam Houston

  Wine, Next Day, Doors

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I liked sharpening pencils and I was like, "Oh, I wonder if I could get paid to do it." And I figured it out and I did it.

  David Rees

  Wonder, Sharpening Pencils, Paid

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm big into stocks. I've invested in a lot of stocks. One day I was talking to my accountant, and he was like, "Yo, what if I could turn a million dollars into $20 million?"

  Fetty Wap

  Talking, What If, One Day

  Interview with Trevor Noah, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2016.

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• I think I was almost 12, so I knew who George C. Scott was, but if I could work with George C. Scott now, I'd be so pumped.

  Paul Dano

  Thinking, Ifs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Working with other people, it's hard to get them to make it sound like what you have in mind. Also, it's really expensive to get your tracks produced, so I thought if I could learn how to do it myself, I could make five albums in a month and it would be free, it would be me, and it would be everything that I'm doing.

  Nina Nesbitt

  People, Track, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could.

  Kate Bush

  Interesting, Desire, Trying

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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• I had to do this album. I tried thinking, "I'm not going to do it." But then I'm sitting there getting all suicidal and depressed, and I just start writing. It's like this inner drive. If I could choose, I would probably be living in the countryside and be fine with that, but I'm not.

  Lykke Li

  Writing, Suicidal, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I kind of - you learn it, you master it, and then you make sure that it just disappears. You know, like if I could have invisible lights, I would, and invisible cameras. I'm just really trying to get at my subject and I respect the technical aspect, but it is not anything that I think about at this point.

  Carol Friedman

  Thinking, Light, Trying

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.

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• If I could direct it [films] I would be very happy. But the economics of business don't always allow you to do what you want.

  Lee Van Cleef

  Would Be, Want, Film

  Source: www.fistful-of-leone.com

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• If I could say something about Capricornia, and it came out in your previous report, there is no doubt that the end of the mining boom has led to an economic downturn in central Queensland, and that is why people in Capricornia, and elsewhere in central Queensland too, are so desperate for a government that will protect their jobs and create new opportunities for jobs in the future. And that is why [Malcolm] Turnbull government's message of jobs and growth and its six point economic plan is so important to them.

  George Brandis

  Jobs, Opportunity, Government

  "Coal mining essential for Central Queensland jobs: Brandis". "AM" with Michael Brissenden, www.abc.net.au. June 21, 2016.

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• If I could create my own utopia, it would be this genderless world where we didn't have to talk about it.

  Rachel Bloom

  Would Be, World, Utopia

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think if I could ever write with someone, I'd love to write a song with Loretta Lynn or Dolly Parton.

  Jamie Lynn Spears

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  "Jamie Lynn Spears Is All Grown Up and Taking the Country Music Scene by Storm". Interview with Popsugar, www.popsugar.com. June 23, 2016.

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• I have no real talents. If I could make a living at a normal job, I'm sure I would do that.

  Daniel Tosh

  Jobs, Real, Normal

  "Mr. Daniel Tosh coming to NAU". The Lumberjack Interview, www.jackcentral.org. September 11, 2008.

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• How do we create jobs for so many Americans who are feeling pushed out, not just left out, pushed out of the modern economy. Obviously it's skills and education. But it's also jobs. So if I could do anything it would be to take this moment in time that we've got when, yes, our recovery is better, we've had steadier growth, I don't think President [Barack] Obama frankly gets the credit he deserves for the kind of steady hand that he and his advisers apply to moving through that really dangerous period.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Moving, Recovery

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I don't know about immortal, but I must say that to me to touch more women and to have them understand friendships is important. I've had girls come up to me who said, "Yeah, after I saw 'Beaches' I called up my friend Denise who I was really mad at. She got me so aggravated and I called her and we made up." So if I could do that with this new release, yes, that would be very pleasing to me because, hey, it's a tough world. You need friends out there.

  Garry Marshall

  Girl, Beach, Mad

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• There's people who feel that, Well, if I could profit off of sellin' sex to an eleven-year-old kid that comes through some kind of virtual portal, then I'm not really doin' it in actuality. I'm just kind of co-signing or fostering it, 'cause it can't be attached to me. I'm like, Yes it can, 'cause people are livin' through their avatar.

  Chuck D

  Sex, Kids, Years

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