If I Could Quotes - Page 33

• The format of the book was the idea of my wonderful editor, Stephen Segal. Stephen and I had worked together before, on projects for the Interstitial Arts Foundation, and when he got the idea for an accordion-style book, he called and asked if I could write the story for it. I told him that I would love to try! And I knew it had to be a love story, because that's the sort of story you really want to hear from both perspectives. I mean, imagine if Pride and Prejudice were told from Darcy's perspective as well as Elizabeth's. It would be quite a different story!

  Theodora Goss

  Art, Book, Mean

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• I tried to make the punchline as close to the setup as I could. And I thought that was the perfect thing. If I could make the setup and the punchline identical to each other, I would create a different kind of joke.

  Norm MacDonald

  Perfect, Different, Kind

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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• If I could choose, I would say [I would like to be filming with] Natalie Portman and Leonardo DiCaprio.

  Omar Chaparro

  Leonardo, Ifs

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• If I could bust out and eat anything... if I ever stop fighting, I could put on some serious weight with sweets.

  Conor McGregor

  Sweet, Fighting, Serious

  "Conor McGregor On The Truth In Trash Talk, Custom Suits And His Knitting Circle". Interview with Joel Balsam, www.askmen.com.

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• If I could write a novel while I'm walking, I probably would.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Novel, Walking

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• Wouldn't that be wonderful if I could do that? And that way, I could walk with the muse, rather than walk without her. The novel would write itself.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Way, Wonderful

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• It's one of those things, when you look back on it, you'd go, "Oh, I could've done without that. If I could go back in time, I would do it different." That's the thing with violence in general.

  Ti West

  Violence, Different, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There are photos of Kim Jong-un right up atop the volcano. I actually wrote a letter to him asking if I could speak on camera. I never got an answer. But what was interesting was the people who were responsible for us, our "guards," it took them two days to figure out how I should address him. "President? No, you can't because there's a president for eternity." And it was a time when his status was still in flux. Only a few months later there was this party congress which assigned an official title to him, but that was after we did our film.

  Werner Herzog

  Party, Volcanoes, Two

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I love comedy. If I could be a comedian - well, I probably would not take that job because it seems really hard, but I wish I could be.

  Taylor Momsen

  Jobs, Comedian, Wish

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I have some rhythms on my computers, that are actually called "trance", they go from 1-30 or 40. They're grooves that come on the synth. If I could somehow use them, I would.

  Phil Collins

  Use, Computer, Groove

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I remember calling and asking, because I had a few lines that were like, "How could the character have done this?" and I hadn't read the part of the script that said what she [ Cate Blanchett] did, so they put me on the phone with Woody... Allen. I don't know if I could really say "Woody."

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Character, Phones, Asking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes I fantasize about learning to write in Khmer. Because if I could write in Khmer, my perspective would be very different, because I'm both an outsider and insider and I see the writing in a different way. My description would be different from, say, a local writer.

  Chath Piersath

  Writing, Perspective, Way

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• At one time I thought that if I could really understand renunciation and bodhichitta from the depths of my heart, then, for this lifetime that would be enough.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Heart, Depth, Would Be

  Source: fpmt.org

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• I figured if I could put together being funny about stuff and actual events, maybe I could do something that wasn't being done much. Because the reporters that I met out there were funny, and they had hilarious stories that just didn't fit in the AP/UPI/New York Times foreign-correspondent style. They couldn't use the things they had. But I could.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  New York, Style, Together

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I like the fact that they still run substantive pieces. I'm not sure I like the pieces, but it's nice that they do that. Anyway, it was always sort of ridiculous, me having anything to do with the youth culture, but now that I'm in my 50s, it's extra-double-ridiculous. They were losing interest in me, and I was losing interest in them. When I went to renegotiate my contract at Rolling Stone, I kind of halfheartedly asked if I could do half the work for half the money, and they asked if I could do two-thirds of the work for half the money. I ran that by my agent, since he can do math.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Running, Nice, Math

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If I could make a career out of drawing little girls hiding in corners, I would do really well.

  Lynne Rae Perkins

  Girl, Careers, Drawing

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• When I started photographing Patti [Smith], I knew that there wasn't a whole a lot of information out there about her. I was periodically interested in films, and so I just kept asking her if I could come around.

  Steven Sebring

  Asking, Information, Film

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• This is sort of inflection-free acting [playing Maigret], and I really wasn't sure if I could do it - you make your mind up on whether I've succeeded or not. But yes, I found it difficult when we were shooting; it was a couple of weeks before I settled into not worrying - to finding a way of delivering those lines - so my worries of many months before I think had been justified. I found it a difficult way of being.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Couple, Thinking, Worry

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

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• It was [Donald trump] had seen me on the job there, doing other things, and he asked me if I could run the place, and so we had that conversation. But I appreciate that, too.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Running, Jobs, Appreciate

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I don't think that we're limiting talent. I think if I could reverse the clock a little bit, there would have been more kind coverage among female journalists for what I was doing.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Thinking, Female, Littles

  Source: www.politico.com

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• There are a lot of tactical decisions that, if I could have done them over, I would have.

  George W. Bush

  Decision, Done, Tactical

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• Probably when I gave things to Slavica [ Ecclestone], you know the shares of the company, and things like that. And she put it all in trust and the trust sold the shares. Um, would I turn the clock back if I could and so I still owned the company completely? Probably yes. It probably wasn't a good decision, but it was the decision that had to be made. Was I happy that I made it? No.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Decision, Clock, Share

  Source: www.topgear.com

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• I mean, if this [film Age of Trump] wasn't on Netflix, it would be playing at some lovely art house theater on the West Side once or twice or for a week or maybe two weeks if I was lucky and then it would go away, and I'd be lucky if I could sell the DVDs off my website.

  Ava DuVernay

  Art, Mean, Two

  Source: deadline.com

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• From 1940 to about 1960, I had been writing just regular comics, the way my publishers wanted me too. He didn't want me to use words of more than two syllables if I could help it. He didn't want me to waste time on worrying about good dialogue or characterization. Just give me a lot of action, lot of fight scenes.

  Stan Lee

  Writing, Fighting, Two

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write.

  W. E. B. Griffin

  Writing, Ifs

  Source: www.blackfive.net

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