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If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.
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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
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If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.
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If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
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If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that 9 will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
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If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
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If you want government to take everything, if you want government to take more and more over with the banks, more of the industries, all of a sudden you're going to have a government auto czar, right there, right down the line, that's socialism.
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If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.
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If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
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If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
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If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
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If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so.
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If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.
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If you're talking down to the audience, no matter how brutish it is, they know it and they hate you for it.
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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
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In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.
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In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
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In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
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In my world, I read resumes upside down, so I start with personal interests. So if somebody doesn't have believable, interesting interests, they're not going to work in a creative business.
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