Ifs Quotes (page 430)

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• change
• crush
• reading

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you. Jeanette Winterson

• lasting
• us
• lastly

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us. Jeanette Winterson

• love
• stupid
• great

If you can find it in you to love how stupid the entertainment industry is, you can have a great career. Jon Cryer

• story
• about
• journalist

If you do a story about a British journalist rescuing a child from Sarajevo, then Sarajevo just becomes an exotic location, and the story's about this British journalist. Michael Winterbottom

• work
• eating
• watch

If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow. Celia Cruz

• best
• thinking
• people

If you do this, you're going to have some heartaches from it. You're going to have people yelling at you or maybe screaming at you or criticizing you, but I think it's the best way to sell a superior chicken. Frank Perdue

• history
• time
• son

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. Russell Hoban

• good times
• good
• importance time

If you have kids, it is the most important thing to create good times. Tom Cruise

• life
• thinking
• titanic

If I had done 'Titanic,' it would have made, probably, $200,000 - worldwide. So I think my life would have been very, very similar. Billy Crudup

• lies
• believe
• enough

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed. Adolf Hitler

• today
• revolutions
• stand

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution. Adolf Hitler

• good
• writing
• yours

If you have a good selling idea, your secretary can write your ad for you. Morris Hite

• good
• giving
• don't give a damn

If an ad campaign is built around a weak idea - or as is so often the case, no idea at all - I don't give a damn how good the execution is, it's going to fail. Morris Hite

• art
• evening
• people

If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De Niro are getting into production. Again, it's art vs. marketing. Not everyone can take the risk. You have to break a few eggs to make a good omelet. Michael Winslow

• thinking
• world
• country

If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world. Claude Pepper