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• Picasso said art is a lie that tells the truth. What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?

  Nicolas Cage

  Art, Lying, Want

  "'You've got to be able to break the wall'". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2007.

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• No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

  Kirk Douglas

  Optimism, Speech, Matter

  "Kirk Douglas: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?

  Brendan Fraser

  Tests, Juliet, Audience

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• The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.

  Salma Hayek

  Mistake, Cutting, Giving

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• It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have hands? They'll think you're cocky.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Cocky, Humor

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• Don’t wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary “what if” scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.

  Naveen Jain

  Real, Filling Up, Ideas

  "Dear Entrepreneur: Stop Dreaming And Launch That Business" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2011.

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• What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?

  Andrei Platonov

  Thinking, Carried Away, Left

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• I'd say any good set or any comedy that I've worked on, that's worked, has been comedians pitching ideas back and forth to each other. A lot of like, 'What if you say this? What about this?'

  Amy Poehler

  Ideas, Comedian, Pitching

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• Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.

  James Rollins

  Ifs And, Two, Pieces

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• What if the invasion forces will not leave our lands? What if the U.S. forces and others stay in our beloved lands? What if their companies and embassy headquarters will continue to exist with the American flags hoisted on them? Will you be silent? Will you overlook this?

  Muqtada al Sadr

  Land, Flags, Invasion

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• It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Senior, Would Be, Half

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• What if it's boring - or if it's not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.

  Lily Tomlin

  Might, Boring, Revealing

  Movie Magazine Interview, July 1983.

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• They say you’re meant to live everyday as if it were your last, which I’ve always thought was daft, since no one would ever pay the gas bill if that was the case, but what if it were your first?

  Amy Jenkins

  Everyday, Pay, Bills

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• Sometimes I see things, I think. Out of the corner of my eye, taunting me, and then it’s gone. And dreams. Such horrible dreams. What if something terrible happened to me? What if I am damaged?" The rain is a cool kiss on my sleeve as I link my arm with hers. "We’re all damaged somehow.

  Libba Bray

  Dream, Rain, Eye

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.335, Delacorte Press

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• God, what if TMZ got hold of the truth about me? What a liar I am, I mean? What kind of role model am I? I make Vanessa Hudgens look like Mother Freaking Teresa. Minus the whole nudity thing. Because I'm not about to take naked photos of myself and send them to my boyfriend.

  Meg Cabot

  Mother, Liars, Mean

  Meg Cabot (2009). “The Princess Diaries, Volume X: Forever Princess”, p.43, Harper Collins

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• What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Laughter, Tears, World

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• What worries me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I just haven't had enough therapy yet for me to be comfortable with having found him.

  Carrie Fisher

  Worry, Guy, Had Enough

  Carrie Fisher (2011). “Postcards From the Edge”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• What if I'm not a superhero. What if I'm the bad guy?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Superhero, Guy

  "'Twilight': Edward The Vampire Sulker And His Beloved: Does This Story Work?". Interview with Linda Holmes, www.npr.org. March 24, 2010.

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• So what if Brian made me feel like fireworks were going off inside me. He could also make me feel like a big fat clod of heartsick dirt. It was like he could take any emotion I had and make it ten times stronger. Which is great when it's happiness but pretty darn awful if it's anything sad.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Stronger, Awful, Dirt

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• You couldn't give up you for them. But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular powerful you?

  Kristin Hannah

  Giving Up, Powerful, Wanted

  Kristin Hannah (2014). “The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 1: Firefly Lane, True Colors, Fly Away”, p.144, St. Martin's Griffin

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• What you create doesn’t have to be perfect. So what if the eggs are greasy or the toast is burned? Don’t let fear of failure discourage you.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Eggs, Perfect, Fear Of Failure

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• I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

  Rainbow Rowell

  Past, Phones, Ideas

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• What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Thinking, Blessing, Democratic Socialism

  "'Everybody in the World Except US Citizens Should Be Allowed to Vote and Elect the American Government' - Leading Intellectual Slavoj Žižek". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 11, 2008.

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• What if we just acted like everything was easy?

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Attitude, Everything Happens For A Reason, Life Is Hard

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• And what if I don't want forgiveness?

  Erica Jong

  Want, Ifs

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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