What If Quotes - Page 29

• My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.

  David Mamet

  People, Way, Directors

  "David Mamet's Conservative Conversion". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 08, 2011.

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• That and when you're doing live action you don't normally get to see the thing before it's in production. In this case we'd go in every couple weeks and look at animatic and sketches. The way they do it - is they'll put it up on a screen and the storyboard artist who worked on that sequence will talk you through it. Kind of like a pitch session. Then they would leave and we would sit there with the directors and say 'Alright - what if we change that? What if we do that?' It's very different from live action.

  Jonathan M. Goldstein

  Couple, Artist, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• Our country right or wrong is an evil motto - what if your country be in the wrong? It will only compound her injury. I wish to serve the republic with an honest and fearless criticism.

  Horace Greeley

  Country, Evil, Fearless

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• On a surface level, regionalism is gone, if we define regionalism as human culture. But, what if we define regionalism as something older than human culture?

  Cynthia Daignault

  Culture, Gone, Levels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Be generous with your heart! The more we spontaneously give, the more connected and enriched we will feel. What if we use each other as our living temples, and put our best offering foot forward to see what direction life points us? I believe that if we live in a state of offering - even if we think we have nothing to offer - life blesses us and we feel more at peace with who we are and what we have.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

  "The Power of Offering: How Offering Can Instantly Unbind the Heart" by Agapi Stassinopoulos, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2011.

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• Some people my accuse me of doing too much. Sometimes I agree with them. But then there is a part of me that wants to follow God --- wholeheartedly, completely and full throttle, wherever He may lead. I don't want to look back fifty years from now and think, What if I had trusted God? Where would I be?

  Tricia Goyer

  Thinking, Years, People

  FaceBook post by Tricia Goyer from Jan 24, 2015

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• My ideas often come from strong mental images. When I'm observing some relatively ordinary thing, I'll think, "What if...." and out of that brainstorming a story emerges.

  Cassandra Clare

  Strong, Thinking, Ifs And

  "The Last Book of The Mortal Instruments Series Has Arrived, and It's Full of Juicy Lust and Betrayal". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. May 29, 2014.

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• We all have those moments where we realize how easily our lives could be so different, for better or for worse. I met my husband at a gym in NYC! What if I'd joined a different gym? What if I hadn't worked out in the afternoons? These questions are endless.

  Allison Winn Scotch

  Husband, Nyc, Different

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• What if rather than being disheartened by the ambiguity, the uncertainty of life, we accepted it and relaxed into it?

  Pema Chodron

  Accepted, Uncertainty Of Life, Disheartened

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• The Time Lords really didn't like genocide. I'm not too keen on it myself. It's the potential you're killing off. What if, one day, there was a good Dalek? What if...

  Neil Gaiman

  One Day, Daleks, Killing

  Neil Gaiman (2015). “Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances”, p.203, Hachette UK

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• Our own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any; rocks at least as well covered with lichens,and a soil which, if it is virgin, is but virgin mould, the very dust of nature. What if we cannot read Rome or Greece, Etruria or Carthage, or Egypt or Babylon, on these; are our cliffs bare?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, America, Rocks

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.193, Delphi Classics

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• What if I don't want a leader? Where does that vote go? I do good on my own. I don't want to be led.

  Doug Stanhope

  Leader, Doe, Want

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• But what if everyone in the world behaved like me and came here and shot Brisseau through the ear? What a mess! And of course we'd need valet parking.

  Woody Allen

  Needs, Ears, World

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?

  Plato

  Men, Vanity, Becoming

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• When I see that little white ball go up, I want to catch it, no matter what. If I have to knock myself silly doing it, so be it.

  Torii Hunter

  Silly, White, Balls

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• This Is Your Time, This Is Your Dance. Live Every Moment, Leave Nothing To Chance. Swim In The Sea. Drink Of The Deep, Embrace The Mystery Of All You Could Be. What if Tomorrow? And What If Today? Faced With The Question, Oh What Would You Say?

  Michael W. Smith

  Sea, Swim, Today

  Michael W. Smith, Gary Lee Thomas (2000). “This Is Your Time: Make Every Moment Count”, p.2, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I never want to look in the mirror and say, 'What if? What if I had run harder? What if I had dived for that groundball?'

  Chase Utley

  Running, Mirrors, Looks

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• Science fiction does not attempt to predict. It extrapolates. It just says, "What if?" not what will be? Because you can never predict what will happen, particularly in politics and economics. You can to some extent predict in the technological sphere - flying, space travel, but even there we missed badly on some things, like computers. No one imagined the incredible impact of computers, even though robot brains of various kinds but the idea that one day every house would have a computer in every room and that one day we'd have computers built into our clothing, nobody ever thought of that.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  House, Flying, Brain

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Suppose I could shoot myself in the mouth, but what if I miss? People will laugh at me.

  George Carlin

  People, Laughing, Missing

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• It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?

  V. S. Pritchett

  Believe, Unsuccessful, Exciting

  V.S. Pritchett (2011). “The Living Novel”, p.87, A&C Black

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• ... I was reminded of a remark of Willa Cather's, that you can't paint sunlight, you can only paint what it does with shadows on a wall. If you examine a life, as Socrates has been so tediously advising us to do for so many centuries, do you really examine a life, or do you examine the shadows it casts on other lives? Entity or relationships? Objective reality or the vanishing point of a multiple perspective exercise? Prism or the rainbows it refracts? And what if you're the wall? What if you never cast a shadow or rainbow of your own, but have only caught those cast by others?

  Wallace Stegner

  Life, Wall, Exercise

  Wallace Stegner (1990). “The Spectator Bird”, p.101, Penguin

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• At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Writing, Asking Questions, Illustration

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• What if this were Hell, this absence of sleep, this poet's desert, this pain of living, this dying of not dying, this anguish of shadows, this passion over death and light.

  Leopold Sedar Senghor

  Pain, Sleep, Passion

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• I started to be much happier in my relationships when I realized that I can only control myself. That way, you don't worry about people and don't waste your time thinking, 'What if he cheats on me?' You can't control that.

  Crystal Reed

  Thinking, Control Myself, People

  "Exclusive Interview: Teen Wolf's Crystal Reed". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. May 27, 2011.

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• Simple molecules combine to make powerful chemicals. Simple cells combine to make powerful life-forms. Simple electronics combine to make powerful computers. Logically, all things are created by a combination of simpler, less capable components. Therefore, a supreme being must be in our future, not our origin. What if "God" is the consciousness that will be created when enough of us are connected by the Internet?!!

  Scott Adams

  God, Powerful, Future

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