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If I could, I'd change the way I came up through the football ranks. I'd love to have had an academy life the way the boys have it. I think female footballers would be so much better for having that opportunity, and we'd be more effective because we would be better players.
Lucy Bronze
/
If I Could
Life Love Change
Footballers
Ranks
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I'm from Chicago. And I was an actor in high school and college, and I wanted to see if I could make a run of it in this job. So, I went downtown in Chicago, and I went up on a stand-up stage and did an open mic. It went well, so I'm like, 'Alright, I'll give it another try.'
Jay Chandrasekhar
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Actor
Alright
Downtown
If I Could
High School And College
Mic
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I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!
Ken Hensley
/
Keyboard Player
Men
Guitar
Happy Man
If I Could
Normal
Sound
Thinking
David
Bluesy
Open
Chord
Course
Learned
Melodic
Slide
Supposed
Tune
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A. L. Vijay asked if I could dance, and I just said yes. I didn't tell him the only dancing I had done was on nights out in Liverpool. He said he would arrange workshops and help me with the scripts and the language. He liked the fact that I was English but had an Indian look.
Amy Jackson
/
Model
If I Could
Indian
Liverpool
Scripts
Workshops
Done Me Look
Arrange
Nights
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People always ask me if I could live in any other era what would it be, and I tell them none! I feel so lucky to live in an age where technology has changed and continues to change and make life so much more exciting. It keeps everyone young and constantly learning new things.
Nina Garcia
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Journalist
Age
Technology
Changed
Exciting
If I Could
New Things
People
Life Change Age
Constantly
Era
None
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As a kid, I used to go and wait at the gates of Melwood or look through the cracks in the wall just see if I could see any of the people I was looking up to, who we all wanted to aspire to become, when we were in the Champions League, the likes of Gerrard, Carragher and Alonso.
Trent Alexander-Arnold
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Aspire
Champions League
Cracks
Gates
If I Could
Champions
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I've never got the vibe that they would do a gospel song. 'Cause when they talking about doing another Geto Boys album I said I would do it if I could rap like I'm rapping on my gospel album, I didn't get a whole lot of cosigning on that from all the political parties concerned.
Bushwick Bill
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Rapper
If I Could
Political Parties
Gospel
Rapping
Vibe
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Whether I'm making a recipe or a piece of jewelry or a white-rose-and-jasmine tea or the perfume, I like to think of myself as a happy little sorceress, and if I could just have a little general store with all that stuff and give people a sense of my taste, that would be lovely.
Padma Lakshmi
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Author
Giving
If I Could
Jewelry
Lovely
Perfume
Taste
Thinking
White
Piece
Recipe
Store
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If I could, I would not do anything else. I'd just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don't even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.
Ariana Grande
/
Actress
Events
If I Could
Looks
Party
Life Time Music
Anything Else
Just Be
Parties
Red Carpets
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If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.
Florence Nightingale
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Statistician
Ability
If I Could
Information
Ordinary
Strange
Life God My Life
Life God Done
Led
Paths
Service
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All I want is the same opportunities as the filmmakers I grew up admiring. But you know, I've had lots of amazing opportunities to do the movies I wanted to do. If I could write my future, I'd want to keep making character-based films that can make use of my voice as a filmmaker.
Tim Story
/
Admiring
Filmmaker
If I Could
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I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case.
Chuck Palahniuk
/
Novelist
Clean
If I Could
Lucky
Narrative
Radio
Slate
Television
Case
Joke
Every Time
Hold
Influences
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When I was in the group homes, I saw some of the kids being moved into foster homes with the potential for adoption. I remember well asking a social worker if I could find a home, too. I was told I was 'too old' and 'no one wants to adopt a 16-year-old.' I felt hopeless and alone.
Angela Featherstone
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Hopeless
If I Could
Adopt
Worker
Foster
Homes
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All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheesemaking class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to only get me kitchen stuff on my birthday. I'm into every kind of cookbook and anything by Anthony Bourdain. I'd love to own a restaurant if I could find the right chef.
Jesse Mccartney
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Singer-Songwriter
Birthday
Chef
Cookbook
Family And Friends
Food Network
If I Could
Love Family Food
Network
Restaurant
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I'm the kid that tried to take Latin in school because I felt if I could understand the root of everything, then I could understand why it worked. That was what took me into engineering. And the reason I stayed is, engineering teaches you to solve problems. It teaches you to think.
Ginni Rometty
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Business Executive
Engineering
If I Could
Latin
Solve
Root
Stayed
Teaches
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I had a blog and was documenting my life as a college student in an art school. I had a few comments left by a few girls asking if I could do a tutorial on how I did my makeup. I didn't think my makeup was all that special, but I try my best to share whatever I can with my viewers.
Michelle Phan
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Art School
If I Could
Makeup
Viewers
Life Best Art
Blog
College Student
Comments
Documenting
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If I could sum up 'Shadow's Claim' in six words: cage fights with hot alpha males. Seriously, though, while the fights are the backdrop for Trehan and Bettina's love story, the main emphasis is on how Trehan - a pitiless master assassin - wages the ultimate battle to win her heart.
Kresley Cole
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Author
Backdrop
Battle
Emphasis
If I Could
Love Story
Males
Shadow
Six
Ultimate
Wages
Words
Alpha
Assassin
Fights
Cage
Claim
Master
Main
Seriously
Sum
Though
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I talked my parents into sending me to Roedean at 16. I had this idea that if I could get into Cambridge, then I could join Footlights. My problem was that I went to a comprehensive in Brighton. I thought I'd have to start from a good school, and the best I could think of was Roedean.
Lucy Griffiths
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Actress
Brighton
Cambridge
Comprehensive
If I Could
Best Good Me
Best Good Start
Join
Sending
Talked
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Climbing Mount Everest was the biggest mistake I've ever made in my life. I wish I'd never gone. I suffered for years of PTSD and still suffer from what happened. I'm glad I wrote a book about it. But, you know, if I could go back and relive my life, I would never have climbed Everest.
Jon Krakauer
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Writer
Biggest Mistake
Book
Climbing
Everest
Glad
Gone
Happened
If I Could
Made
Mistake
Mount Everest
Wish
Years
Life Mistake My Life
Back
Biggest
Climbed
Could
Ever
Still
Would
Mount
My Life
Relive
Suffer
Wrote
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I, over the years, have always felt more comfortable if I could go into a projection room and look at a film and not really know what to expect. If you read the script first, you form all kinds of preconceptions about how things look, what the location's like, what the actors are like.
John Williams
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Scientist
If I Could
Location
Preconceptions
Projection
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I want to go to Denmark and Scandinavia. We've been inundated with their telly recently, and I've never been to any of those countries. I really want to get to know the people. I quite fancy living there for a bit if I could take a month off. They just seem like upfront, friendly folk.
Sarah Alexander
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Denmark
Fancy
Friendly
If I Could
People Never Know
Month
Folk
Living People Never
Inundated
Telly
Upfront
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There are days when I still wake up angry, and no one handles it perfectly all the time, but honestly, I feel lucky to have diabetes because of the people I get to meet. The families, the kids, the parents, the other athletes. If I could pick a club to be in, this would definitely be it.
Charlie Kimball
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Racing Driver
Angry
Diabetes
Honestly
If I Could
Wake Up
Time Angry People
Time People Feel
Athletes
Perfectly
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If I could talk to my younger self, I would just say that the path to great things is filled with a lot of stumbles, suffering, and challenges along the way. But if you have the right attitude and know that hard times will pass - and you get up each time - you will reach your destination.
Jonny Kim
/
Attitude
Great
Challenges
Destination
Filled
Great Things
Hard
Hard Times
If I Could
Path
Self
Suffering
Way
Will
Things
Just
Talk
Lot
Along
Get
Younger
Could
Each
Each Time
Times
Say
Would
Up
Pass
Right
Reach
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I would love to do more movies. I'd like to get into some theater, too, if I could, just to learn more. I want to do gritty performances that I'm proud of. It doesn't matter to me if four people see it or millions of people see it, as long as I perform in such a way that people go, 'Wow!'
Jason Dohring
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Actor
If I Could
Millions
Proud
Theater
Love Movies Me
Perform
Gritty
Performance
Millions Of People
Such A Way
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There was only one elective at my college for acting, but thank God for that elective because we had a great teacher who introduced me to the Meisner technique for acting. Once I read that book, I said, 'Wow, if I could do that and have that honest moment on stage, that would be amazing.'
Nestor Carbonell
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Actor
Amazing
Teacher
Acting
College
Great Teacher
Honest
If I Could
Stage
Technique
Thank God
Wow
Elective
Introduced
Thank
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The first time I saw Peter Green play was at the Club Rado, which was a very rough club in Belfast, and at that time he'd just replaced Eric in the Bluesbreakers. I'd gone up there to sort of hang out and see if I could meet this guy Peter Green, because I'd read about him and everything.
Gary Moore
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Musician
Belfast
If I Could
Peter
Replaced
Rough
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'Boycott caused all the trouble,' they say, as if I could have canvassed all those people personally to take a stand in 1983. Nonsense! The committee were the ones with the power to make the decisions, not me. They started the unrest, they did the sackings, and they reaped what they sowed.
Geoffrey Boycott
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Cricketer
Boycott
If I Could
Nonsense
Unrest
Caused
Power Me People
Committee
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Within months after reading the novel 'The Hunger Games,' I went from telling my mom that I could see myself as this character to actually getting the role. My mother reminds me that if I could manifest such an important role just because I wanted it so much, all of my dreams are possible.
Amandla Stenberg
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Actress
Games
Hunger
If I Could
Manifest
Months
Novel
Reading
Within
Hunger Games
Important Role
Reminds
Role
Telling
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If I could give a shout-out to anything in the childhood world, I have to say 'Daniel Tiger.' I want to write a love letter to everyone on that staff. It is so perfectly, thoughtfully, lovingly done. And as a parent, it is the one thing out of everything that we dip in to that really helps.
Emma Mclaughlin
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Novelist
Dip
If I Could
Parent
Staff
Love Childhood World
Daniel
Letter
Lovingly
Perfectly
The One Thing
Thoughtfully
Tiger
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In hindsight, if I could go back in time and relay a message to my younger self, I would tell him to work on his time keeping, and that the job of a drummer is not to be the one that gets noticed the most on stage, or to be the fastest, or the loudest. Above all, it is to be the timekeeper.
Taylor Hawkins
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Musician
Drummer
Hindsight
If I Could
Self
Fastest
Loudest
Noticed
Relay
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I'm remixing an R.E.M. track called 'I've Been High' from their last album, 'Reveal.' It's a beautiful song, but record execs didn't put it out as a single because it didn't sound like the R.E.M. we're used to. So I asked Michael Stipe if I could have the tapes to do a remix, and he agreed.
Lukas Haas
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Actor
Beautiful
If I Could
Remix
Song
Track
Agreed
Album
Asked
Michael
Reveal
Tapes
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If I could change anything, I would definitely have had a father around. My father. I would definitely say it affected me deeply as a young man, coming up. Who doesn't want a father? Those are the beginnings, and those are what can dictate the roads you choose in life, and choosing them well.
R. Kelly
/
Singer-Songwriter
If I Could
Young Man
Life Change Man
Beginnings
Choosing
Dictate
Roads
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I like to sort through music and see whatever pops out to me or inspires me. If I could have a production team going and kind of mix records with me, that would be cool; to take the records and have them sound the way I want them to sound. But I'd rather sort though music to find them things.
Curtis Jackson
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Rapper
If I Could
Pops
Cool Music Me
Inspires
Production
Mix
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When I directed my first short - 'American Virgin' - I had no idea if I could actually do it. Like, I might just get onto set, have everyone look at me and just completely freeze and have no idea what to do. But pretty much the opposite of that happened. I was like a fish diving into the sea.
Tamzin Merchant
/
Diving
Freeze
If I Could
No Idea
Sea
Fish
Directed
Onto
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I realized that people had an unreal image of me, that somehow I was a god on Mount Olympus. I decided that if I were going to make use of my role as a Supreme Court Justice, it would be to inspire people to realize that, first, I was just like them and second, if I could do it, so could they.
Sonia Sotomayor
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Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Court
Decided
If I Could
Inspire
Justice
People
Supreme
Supreme Court
Supreme Court Justice
Unreal
Mount
Realize
Role
Second
Somehow
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Everybody, every tradesman that worked for Shafin or built my house got fully paid, well paid. Everybody got paid. I would like that to be said if I could because I haven't said it before, and it's important. People kind of think we left all these plumbers or electricians without getting paid.
Shane Filan
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Singer-Songwriter
House
If I Could
People
Thinking
Fully
Important People
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It was complicated at Madrid. I was suspicious. The lack of recognition for Makelele over there scared me. I was scared it would happen to me. But I should have gone there. Today, I don't regret the career that I have had, but if I could have changed one thing, it would be that: to go to Madrid.
Patrick Vieira
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Footballer
If I Could
Madrid
Recognition
Regret
Suspicious
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Winston was a bit of a challenge, all right, from a lot of different perspectives. It wasn't just the culture or the class divide or the historical baggage - it was also the age difference. We had to see if I could be aged-up legitimately, without it becoming some sort of hokey acting challenge.
Brendan Gleeson
/
Actor
Baggage
Becoming
Class
Historical
If I Could
Challenge
Difference
Different Perspectives
Divide
Perspectives
Winston
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My idea with '4 Degrees' was to articulate, for a minute, not my ideal vision of how I wanted to perceive my relationship to nature but the reality. If I could give a voice to my behavior, what would that voice be? Taking planes, enjoying first-world fossil fuel, an addict of first-world comfort.
Anohni
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Relationship
Addict
Behavior
Comfort
Degrees
Fossil Fuel
Fuel
If I Could
Perceive
Planes
Reality
Vision
Voice
Wanted
Articulate
Idea
Could
Enjoying
Fossil
Give
Minute
Taking
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I wasn't meant to be a cook. It's a profession I accidentally fell into one summer between college semesters while looking for an easy job as a waiter. Nobody would hire me as a server, but one restaurant, in desperate need of a prep cook, told me that if I could hold a knife, I could have a job.
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
/
Desperate
If I Could
Meant To Be
Profession
Server
Summer
Waiter
Accidentally
Meant
Cook
Hire
Prep
Restaurant
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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
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Film Actress
If I Could
Sondheim
Absolute
Funny Time Best
Funny Best Time
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I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time. I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend... I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York, and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.
John Waters
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Film Director
New York
Fake
If I Could
Midnight
Permission
Slips
Ask
Time Movies People
Run
Stay
Street
Parents
Make Up
York
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If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
Caitlin Rose
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Singer
Bottom
If I Could
Uncomfortable
Drawer
Hurting
Sad Songs
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If I could create a world where people lived forever, or at the very least a few billion years, I would do so. I don't think humanity will always be stuck in the awkward stage we now occupy, when we are smart enough to create enormous problems for ourselves, but not quite smart enough to solve them.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Writer
Awkward
Enormous
Forever
Humanity
If I Could
Smart
Solve
Stage
Stuck
Billion
Occupy
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I thought 'UnSouled' would come in at around 400 pages, but it took 650 pages, and even then I felt like I was rushing the conclusion, so I asked my editor and publisher if I could divide it again. So a sequel became a trilogy, and the trilogy became a tetralogy - although we're not calling it that.
Neal Shusterman
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Author
Conclusion
If I Could
Pages
Rushing
Divide
Editor
Publisher
Sequel
Trilogy
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I've always been interested in Vietnam, feel it's a seminal event in our nation's history, and have explored it over the years - but I hadn't been interested in doing a documentary about it. I felt there had been a lot done about Vietnam, and didn't know if I could add anything new to the discussion.
Rory Kennedy
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Documentary Filmmaker
Add
Discussion
If I Could
Vietnam
Documentary
Event
Explored
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of my all-time favorite writers. I feel spiritual when reading his words, even though they're translated. I wish desperately that I could read it in its original language. I already feel like I'm going to church when I read him; imagine if I could read it in the original.
Conor Oberst
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Singer-Songwriter
All Time
Gabriel
If I Could
Reading
Spiritual
Wish
Desperately
Translated
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Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments.
Amy Chua
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Professor
Parenting
Adjustment
Balance
Chinese
Done
Hardest Thing
If I Could
Raised
Strict
Thinking
Traditional
West
Again
Between
Find
Too
Could
Ever
Indulgent
Permissive
Some
Tendency
The Hardest Thing
Tried
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I have said with as much sincerity as I can muster that if I were thrown into a dungeon with a sentence of one hundred years, with my only company being an illiterate guard who came twice a day with meals but who never spoke, I would still write - on coarse toilet paper in the dark if I could spare it.
Edward P. Jones
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Novelist
Coarse
Hundred
If I Could
Meals
Muster
Sincerity
Thrown
Toilet Paper
Twice
Dungeon
Guard
Hundred Years
Toilet
Sentence
Spare
Spoke
Twice A Day
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Take my gay-hairdresser routine. You'll let your hairdresser say things to you that you wouldn't let your parents say. My hairdresser will say the funniest things, so I asked him if I could put him in my routine - you know, make fun of him in a good way. He said, 'Oh, mention my name, mention my name!'
Sinbad
/
Good Way
Hairdresser
If I Could
Routine
Good Your Fun
Asked
Oh
Funniest
Mention
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