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• If I could play any role in any musical, it would be Desiree in A Little Night Music - Oh my, it is perfection. The character gets to be funny, beautiful, sexy and smart all at the same time and have two men fighting over her. The show is Stephen Sondheim at his absolute best... need I say more?

  Nancy Allen

  Beautiful, Sexy, Smart

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• If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned.

  George Eliot

  Clever, Lessons, Fancy

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• I think if I could do it over again - as much as I loved meeting the people I did on the films after 'Matilda' - I wish that I had stopped after 'Matilda.' I wish that I had just focused on my own life for a while.

  Mara Wilson

  Thinking, People, Wish

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• If I could do anything about the way people behave towards each other, I would, but since I can't, I'll stick to animals.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Animal, People, Sticks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I totally have this thing for Harry Styles from One Direction. But like I could totally date the rest of the band as one. I mean, if I could date all of them at one time that'd be like ideal. They seem pretty close, but who knows? Maybe not that close.

  Cassie Steele

  Mean, One Direction, Style

  "Cassie Steele Isn't Suffering From An 'L.A. Complex'". MTV Interview, www.mtv.com. April 24, 2012.

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• I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian community, and most of my friends had blonde hair and blue eyes. So I was always straightening my hair, wearing colored contacts, and I never tanned, if I could help it.

  Shay Mitchell

  Eye, Hair, Blue

  "Shay Mitchell on Standing Out in Hollywood". Interview with Lauren Waterman, www.teenvogue.com. April 2013.

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• I watched a lot of movies when I was younger and I remember, when I was seven years old, I asked my parents if I could have an agent for Christmas.

  Meaghan Rath

  Years, Parent, Agents

  "Meaghan Rath Exclusive Interview BEING HUMAN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 14, 2011.

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• When my sister Joan arrived, I asked if I could swap her for a rabbit. When I think what a marvellous friend she's been, I'm so glad my parents didn't take me at my word.

  Maeve Binchy

  Thinking, Parent, Rabbits

  Interview With Jessica Simmons, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2010.

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• If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change.

  Kurt Cobain

  Girl, World, Courtney

  "Smashing Their Heads On The Punk Rock". Interview with Darcey Steinke, www.spin.com. October 1993.

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• These days I don't look to other people with the objective of trying to steal their licks, although I've got no objections to stealing them if that seems like a good idea. I'm sure that I'm still influenced by Mark Knopfler and Eddie Van Halen as well......I can't play like Eddie Van Halen. I wish I could. I sat down to try some of those ideas and can't do it. I don't know if I could ever get any of that stuff together. Sometimes I think I should work at the guitar more.

  David Gilmour

  Thinking, Play, Ideas

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• And the general shot my sister. I could not look at her, but I remember the sound of when she hit the ground. I hear that sound when things hit the ground still. Anything.' If I could, I would make it so nothing ever hit the ground again.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Sound, Looks, Remember

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• I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I cant. What I can do is pitch, and I can do that very well.

  Tom Seaver

  Artist, Pitching, Quitting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is a possibility in human minds of something mysterious as the night-wind, deep as the sea, calm as the stars, and strong as Death, a mystic contemplation, the “intellectual love of God.” Those who have known it cannot believe in wars any longer, or in any kind of hot struggle. If I could give to others what has come to me in this way, I could make them too feel the futility of fighting. But I do not know how to communicate it: when I speak, they stare, applaud, or smile, but do not understand.

  Bertrand Russell

  Strong, Stars, War

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.319, Routledge

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• If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Would Be, Hints, Fool

  "Dr John Briffa assesses Sebastian Faulks' shopping basket" by John Briffa, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2009.

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• My senior year of high school, I was voted Wittiest. So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.

  Barbara Park

  Senior, Witty, Writing

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• I used to play Saturday night shows with different little groups. If I could get a show, I would do it. I used to do mad things - I used to go and do these shows and go on my knees and roll on the ground - when I was 15,16 years old. And my parents were extremely disapproving of it all. Because it was just not done. This was for very low-class people, remember. Rock & roll singers weren't educated people

  Mick Jagger

  Night, Years, Class

  Source: www.mickjagger.com

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• When I was young, I wanted to be a dramatic writer, a writer of tragedy. Nothing would've pleased me more than if I could have written like Eugene O'Neil or Tennessee Williams.

  Woody Allen

  Tragedy, Tennessee, Dramatic

  Source: movieweb.com

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• If I could have enough money that I know I could buy a house someday, and if I want to have kids, I could raise them - I don't need the money grab. I don't need to have a mansion. I just need to be creative and happy.

  Chris Gethard

  Kids, House, Creative

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have my own way to walk and for some reason or other Zen is right in the middle of it wherever I go. So there it is, with all its beautiful purposelessness, and it has become very familiar to me though I do not know "what it is." Or even if it is an "it." Not to be foolish and multiply words, I'll say simply that it seems to me that Zen is the very atmosphere of the Gospels, and the Gospels are bursting with it. It is the proper climate for any monk, no matter what kind of monk he may be. If I could not breathe Zen I would probably die of spiritual asphyxiation.

  Thomas Merton

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Atmosphere

  Thomas Merton (1988). “Encounter: Thomas Merton & D.T. Suzuki”

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• Ah, if I could realize, if I could forget myself and devote my meditations to the freeing, the awakening and the blessedness of all living creatures everywhere I'd realize what there is, is ecstasy.

  Jack Kerouac

  Meditation, Awakening, Realizing

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.141, Penguin

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• I was self-conscious of being so lanky, of being me. I'd keep my head down, make excuses not to go out. I'd look in the mirror and hate myself. I thought I was disgusting. I cried constantly from 11 to 16. If I could tell my younger self anything, it would be to learn to love your flaws. It's OK to look in the mirror and feel really confident about yourself.

  Jourdan Dunn

  Hate, Love You, Mirrors

  "I want to talk about what goes on". Interview With Eva Wiseman, September 20, 2013.

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• We dont have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, Id break up the banking system.

  Kenneth C. Griffin

  Magic, Banking, Wave

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• If I could have any job in the world, I'd start out by writing a blog on Wired.com.

  Bob Dylan

  Jobs, Writing, World

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• As an architect it is very important that you distinguish between different realities. There's the reality of the drawing and the reality of the building. So one could say, or at least it is the common belief that architecture has to be built; I always denied that, because ultimately it is based on an idea. I don't ever need a building to verify my idea. Of course, what with a building is more its vanity and actual physical experience. But I anticipate; I wouldn't even build it if I could not anticipate how it would be.

  Raimund Abraham

  Reality, Ideas, Drawing

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• Im obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, Id love to go to space.

  Sam Heughan

  Moon, Space, Obsessed

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