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• I think you can't go into any story-breaking process thinking, 'What if they come off as unlikeable?' You just gotta break the story because if you know who your character is, the story will tell you. The story will dictate and say, "This feels off-kilter for this particular person."

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Character, Thinking, Stories

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I always wonder, aside from even my name, what if my parents never split up? What if my mother never died? It swirls in my head all the time.

  Tig Notaro

  Mother, Names, Parent

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When I announced I had cancer on stage, it was my brain leaping to that insane moment of, "There's no way I could start a show saying, 'Hi, I have cancer!'" And also for me to have these scars, and then think, "Oh my gosh, what if I did stand-up and not even acknowledge that my shirt was off, or that I have scars.

  Tig Notaro

  Cancer, Thinking, Brain

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I thought what if death is more like thinking, well, war is like the boss at your shoulder, constantly wanting more, wanting more, wanting more, and then that gave me the idea that Death is weary, he's fatigued, and he's haunted by what he sees humans do to each other because he's on hand for all of our great miseries.

  Markus Zusak

  War, Thinking, Hands

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Myself and Yorgos Lanthimos, we spoke a little bit and I was at a certain body weight that I was closer to making a statement or defining the character physically by losing weight. There was no justification for him to be emaciated, but I thought, say I was 165, I thought what if I went down to 155 and have him rail-thin? And Yorgos was like, "Well, if he's very thin I think maybe it will speak to some kind of psychological trouble that we want to stay away from," and I was like, "F - -, you're right."

  Colin Farrell

  Character, Thinking, Body Weight

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• What if he says [Donald Trump] plans to run again in 2020?

  Mara Liasson

  Running, Trump, Plans

  Source: www.npr.org

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• As long as we've still got crazy "what if" ideas, we can continue [Black Mirror]. It's outpacing reality that's probably the challenge.

  Charlie Brooker

  Crazy, Reality, Mirrors

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• Often the ideas in the show start out as ideas that make you laugh - outrageous "what if" ideas. I wanted an outlet for doing those.

  Charlie Brooker

  Ideas, Laughing, Outlets

  "The Man Behind Netflix’s “Black Mirror” Is Maybe a Little Too Good at Predicting the Future". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 14, 2016.

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• Our ideas of happiness, gratification, contentment, satisfaction, all demand that those feelings come from within us. If you flip that on its head and say "What if I took the world at face value?" and then ask "What can I do with what is given?" it's an interesting trick to turn around the whole problem of how you feel.

  Ian Bogost

  Ideas, Interesting, Feelings

  Source: app.longform.org

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• Twenty percent of meals in America are eaten in the car. What if we turn even three percent of meals into open, compassionate conversations with loved ones around topics we perceive to be hard - like death or addiction? A lot will change.

  Angel Grant

  America, Addiction, Car

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• Ours is a society that has falsely assumed that contribution must mean giving to some specific cause rather than simply giving our best selves.  Thus, too many people don't recognize the fact that simply being who they are is contributing significantly to the world.  What if simply living your truth, being your best, and fully expressing your strengths, talents, and abilities at whatever you do were sufficient to contribute to the world?  I say it is, and we must not overlook the fact that being our best ultimately inspires others and can and does indeed make an impact.

  Brendon Burchard

  Mean, Impact, Self

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• I asked a high school girl about unreciprocated oral sex and said, "What if guys were asking you to get them a glass of water and never offered to you a glass of water? Would you put up with that?" She burst out laughing. It never occurred to her.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Girl, Sex, School

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• People are constantly telling me, whether they are friends who feel sorry for me, because I can't find a place to live, or real estate agents, "You can't afford an apartment the size you need with this many books. Why don't you just put some of your books in storage?" And I always say the same thing: "What if I told you I had four children? Would you say, 'You just can't afford to house four children. Why don't you just put two of them in storage?'" That's how I feel.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Sorry, Real

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview With Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• I'm working and it's great. Life's great. Believe me on that. So what if I had a stroke? I'm getting on with things.

  Edwyn Collins

  Believe, Strokes, Ifs

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 17, 2010.

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• What if instead of seeing a neighborhood that reminds you of the place you grew up in, you see your actual neighborhood? The data exists. The technology exists. It's just a matter of sourcing it and processing it in a compelling fashion.

  Chris Milk

  Fashion, Technology, Data

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• What if you could reach back to your four-year old or 14-year-old who's having a difficult time and reassure them, saying it is all going to be okay. What if you could go into her mind and give her courage and mentoring and counseling that she really needs. I believe we can do this for our younger souls. I know I've done it for mine, and I know a lot of others have done it.

  Robert Moss

  Believe, Years, Giving

  "If You Want To Be A Shaman, Start At The Breakfast Table. An Interview with Dreamer Robert Moss". Interview with Krysta Gibson, nhne-pulse.org.

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• I came up with an idea to turn the cliché inside out: instead of humans threatened by zombies, what if a sympathetic zombie was threatened by humans?

  Brian Pinkerton

  Ideas, Zombie, Sympathetic

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• You can actually muck with history and think about what if, why not. What if there were dragons in the Incan Empire that allowed them to resist colonization? What if there were a massive dragon empire in the middle of the interior of southern Africa that decided to take objection to the slave trade?

  Naomi Novik

  Thinking, Dragons, Southern

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• What if compassion is also profitable? What if compassion is also good for business?

  Chade-Meng Tan

  Motivation, Inspiration, Compassion

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• I remember Secretary of State [George] Shultz one day saying that America is an economic model for the world. I replied to him that America represents 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 30 percent of the world's energy. What if everyone in the world lives like Americans? Where do we get the energy for this standard of living?

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Economic Models, America, One Day

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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• What if I said that every photograph I made was set up? From the photograph, you can't prove otherwise. You don't know anything from the photograph about how it was made, really.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photograph, Made, Said

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• I'm nostalgic and I do think about a "what if."

  Emily Giffin

  Thinking, Nostalgic, Ifs

  "Emily Giffin Talks Life, Relationships, and Her New Novel, First Comes Love". Interview with Laura Marie Meters, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2016.

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• I'm not a "what if." I want to just do it, try it, give it my all, and if it's not meant to be, I can accept that. But I had to do it.

  Debbi Fields

  Giving, Trying, Want

  "Debbi Fields Talks The Importance Of Persistence And Staying Present In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2013.

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• When we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my ears shot up. Having been brought up among the biologists and having followed various debates about ways to improve the human template and other debates about the true nature of our nature, I began seriously to wonder: What if? We hold in our hands a tool that is more powerful - for good or ill - than any we have wielded before.

  Margaret Atwood

  Powerful, Dna, Hands

  "Unscripted: Margaret Atwood Interview By Paul D. Miller". Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The thing for me is, what if one returns to these maxims, these rather simplistic maxims "Be the change you want to see in the world." Because what canvas have we but the self for these kind of explorations, ultimately.

  Russell Brand

  Self, Return, World

  "Interview with Russell Brand, Daniel Pinchbeck, & Graham Hancock". Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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