"I loved all books that I could read, and I never knew if I was ready for it until I tried to read it, so I tried to read everything."
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"I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing."
"If you are too proud, you don't do business."
"If you're on the cover of any magazine, you certainly get recognized more."
"This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you."
"anything, anything is possible, if you can just see the sky."
"Life isn't life if you just float through it."
"If you want something, if you take it for your own, you'll always be taking it from someone else."
"I don’t ever unwind. My work is my peace. If I’m not working I’m not at peace."
"Dill if you don't hush I'll knock you bowlegged."
"Money is really only important if you don't have any."
"If it isn't a success, that still wouldn't be grounds for divorce."
"If you allow yourself to get bothered by the change, then you're not stable. But God is so stable, and if you keep yourself in Him, that stability is going to come off on you, too."
"If you can talk about it, why paint it?"
"If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill."
"If you make one gift this year, make it the gift of knowledge."
"If things were not impermanent, life would not be possible."
"I would not be happy if I had not become a monk."
"All those things at which thou wishest to arrive by a circuitous road, thou canst have now, if thou dost not refuse them to thyself."
"That which has died falls not out of the universe. If it stays here, it also changes here, and is dissolved into its proper parts, which are elements of the universe and of thyself. And these too change, and they murmur not"."