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Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.

I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back.

My first objective is to invest, and if I have anything spare, then I spend.

The impossible is not quite impossible if you put your mind to it.

I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.

If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.

I usually don't read things written about me and I certainly don't read things if they are inappropriate.

We always say at CARE that we would love to see if we can work ourselves out of business.

Of course women can have it all - if they want it all. I won't hear any defeatist talk. If you just dwell on problems, you won't get anywhere fast.

If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him.

If I'm going to break them, I'm going to break them both.

If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.

If people don't like the history, I'm sorry.

If someone is right for you, you'll know it.

If you're in the position to help someone and you do it, it's very rewarding.

I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.

I don't think about other people. If I did, I'd wanna compete. But I don't think like that, because I'm above everybody.

I don't like talking about myself, if I'm honest.

If there's a camera on me or off me, it's roughly the same, just a lot less energy.

In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.

If I didn't do what I do, I wouldn't be as young as I am.

I'm just a regular guy, but if you cross me it will get physical.

If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.

If I'm going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.

I don't believe in being typecast. If I believed it, it probably would have happened to me. You attract what you make.

That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.

If I'm hunting down gifts, I like to buy locally.

You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.

Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged.

If I like something, I get it and I put it on.

If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.

If you want to do something, you find a way.

If I ever get married myself, it’ll be in jeans.

If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.

If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

If you can't get excited about living life, then what are you doing?

I am confident and I work so hard to be confident. If I wasn't talented, then I wouldn't be as confident.

You release these things, and if they fly then you have more.

If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.

I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.

If you disarm someone's hands - they cannot kill you!

I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't been able to hear.

If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.

If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.

I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing.

If it wasn't good, I wouldn't be going back out on tour.

If you want to be loved by everyone, don't go into politics.

I'm an athlete rep, so I'll be available if they need me for anything

If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.

If you're not worried that you're pricing it too cheap, you're not pricing it cheap enough.

If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.

If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch.

It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.

What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.

If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.

When you work with Sir Anthony there are days when he will do a lot of takes if he's really enjoying a scene.

If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.

I've got to find something and if I find something that I like, I'll do it. If I don't, I won't.

If you want to get along with somebody, let them be right, and it will last longer.

If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.

If a woman is into me, it usually takes me awhile to figure that out. She has to hit me over the head with it.

If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.

If God is God, we cant be afraid of what we can learn.

If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.

Cancer is cancer. I've got a great life if I can just stay alive.

It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.

I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore.

Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.

I can go out in public without being recognized. If I want to be recognized in public, it will happen.

If they want a photograph, then just take it.

If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.

There's no pleasure in working if you don't do the things you want to do.

You can't have a limited government if the family breaks down.

If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.

If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.

I've always been thin. If you go back to when we first started I've always been skinny.

I knew if I wanted to be a general manager, I was going to have to leave to work for another organization.

I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.

If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.

My favorite kind of humor is basically, if it was happening to you, it wouldn't be funny, but to observe it, it's hilarious.

If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.

If you don't have those moments where you go too far, then you're probably not going far enough.

If I have to be compared to somebody, it is to Martha Stewart.

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

Everything I do - if I do it, is going to be personal.

I'm terrified of men these days. If someone asked me out now, I don't know what I'd say, how I'd react. But I couldn't go through with it, not at all. I suppose I've been terrified of them all along.

If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.

If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.

If there's something that you hear on TV about me, just call me and I'll tell you if it's true.

If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.

I don't think about my legacy, if indeed, I have one.

I don't know if there are words to describe my motivation.

I don't quite know what a record is anymore. I don't quite know how to describe it. Don't know how to define it yet, so I'm just letting it gestate, and grow and see if maybe I'll get a better sense of what a record is.