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You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft.
Leslie Nielsen
Life
Time
Me
You
People
Practice
Difficult
Saver
AIDS
Right Time
Say
Tell
Able
Allow
Had
Know
Said
How
How Many Times
Line
Hear
Hearing
Hearing Aids
Very
Times
What If
Craft
Depending
Your
Many
Actor
Right
It was a shock to everyone when I became a rapper. Huge shock to everyone. But I knew it all along. I just didn't want to tell anybody cause then it's like, What if it doesn't work?
Lil Yachty
Work
Rapper
Cause
Everyone
Tell
Knew
Along
Like
Became
Huge
Shock
What If
Just
Anybody
Want
Then
Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with a hook, a situation, a 'what if.'
Linwood Barclay
Character
First
Situation
Starts
Others
Hook
Some
Shape
Head
Taking
What If
Authors
Place
Novel
Start
Starting
Imagine
Kids are always told that they can be anything that they want. But what if you want to be a ballerina, and you're terrible at ballet? Or what if you're gifted at ballet, but you don't like doing it?
Lisa Graff
You
Kids
Gifted
Like
Terrible
Always
Ballerina
Ballet
Doing
What If
Want
Anything
I thought, 'Let's make it a check list. What if I got my education even though I lost my mother, even though my dad is in a shelter?' and looking at these things as hurdles to go over. I could inspire myself.
Liz Murray
Education
Myself
Inspire
Mother
Thought
Hurdles
Looking
Lost
Though
Could
Check
Over
Make
Got
Shelter
Go
What If
List
Even
Dad
Things
I would just randomly blurt out things like, 'What if a man showed up today and was carrying an umbrella, but it wasn't raining?' Eventually, people started to call me weird.
Lynn Coady
Today
Me
Man
People
Randomly
Out
Carrying
Would
Weird
Like
Call
Umbrella
Up
What If
Just
Eventually
Things
Raining
Started
The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.
Mandy Moore
Best
Fear
Unknown
Way
Scary
Feel
Come
Like
What If
Just
Anymore
Really
Next
Used
Prepared
You know what, if you compromise and do stuff that's not becoming to you as an artist, that's your fault.
Marina and the Diamonds
You
Fault
Compromise
Stuff
Know
Becoming
What If
Artist
Your
I wish sometimes that I could be Daniel Day-Lewis and say, 'You know what? If you want me to do this, I'm going to need a year to prepare myself.' But if I do that, they'll say, 'Thank you very much,' and they'll take someone else.
Marion Cotillard
Myself
Me
You
Sometimes
Wish
Year
Thank You
Else
Say
Daniel
Someone
Could
Take
Know
Very
Thank
What If
Going
Want
Much
Prepare
Need
So, I was sitting there and I watched 'Paranormal Activity' and I was like, 'Boy, white people do dumb stuff in movies.' So I was like, 'Why don't they just leave the house... What if paranormal activity happened to a black couple?'
Marlon Wayans
People
Black
White
Paranormal
Stuff
Like
House
Couple
Boy
Leave
Dumb
What If
Sitting
Just
Happened
Movies
Activity
Why
Watched
One of my mom's favorite movies growing up was 'Big' with Tom Hanks. I thought, 'Oh, OK, what if we do something like that but not like that. Something more modern, with a different perspective, and maybe with an all-black cast.'
Marsai Martin
Mom
Perspective
Thought
Big
OK
Favorite
Favorite Movies
Something
More
Cast
Like
Up
What If
Modern
Maybe
Oh
Different
Movies
Different Perspective
Tom
Growing
Tom Hanks
Growing Up
My parents even let me switch schools, to leave my regular school to go to the producer's school, because I told them producing is what I love to do, and it makes me happy to share my music and my passion with others. I was dreaming to go to that school. I begged them. They were like, 'Yah, know what? If you are happy, we are happy.'
Martin Garrix
Love
Music
Me
You
Happy
School
Passion
Parents
Others
Dreaming
Share
Like
Know
Schools
Because
Makes
Leave
Go
Were
What If
Them
Producer
Regular
Producing
Even
Switch
I would hate to be 65 and think, 'What if I had tried to be an actor?'
Matt Long
Hate
Think
Would
Tried
Had
What If
Actor
We live in such a service-based, globalised economy where very few people actually make anything and the people who do make stuff... it's all part of a massive global supply chain. So what if all those chains were suddenly cut, how would you make something? How would you keep people alive? And that was something I wanted to explore.
Max Brooks
You
People
Few
Live
Those
Alive
Would
Something
Part
Supply
Supply Chain
Stuff
Economy
Global
Massive
Make
How
Were
Very
What If
Few People
Where
Wanted
Anything
Cut
Explore
Who
Chain
Chains
Suddenly
Keep
Actually
The bitcoin protocol is about mining bitcoin, not pricing bitcoin. There is nothing in the protocol about establishing a market price for bitcoin; you need a market for that, but what if all the exchange markets are shut down?
Max Keiser
You
Bitcoin
Nothing
Down
Market
Markets
Mining
About
Price
Pricing
Exchange
Protocol
What If
Establishing
Shut
Need
I'm just happy that Jesus Christ, um, did not let me lose my teeth when I was 20 years old. 'Cause I was wondering, like, what if you kept your baby teeth until the age of 18 or 20, and then you lose 'em? That would look pretty bad.
Metta World Peace
Me
You
Age
Happy
Cause
Old
Christ
Lose
Baby
Teeth
Bad
Would
Pretty
Like
Look
Until
Years
Um
Did
What If
Wondering
Just
Then
Your
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Kept
On the gay issue, hey, you know what, if people love each other, Jesus, I mean come on.
Michael T. Flynn
Love
Gay
You
People
Other
Hey
Come
Know
Issue
What If
Mean
Each
Jesus
What if the invasion forces will not leave our lands? What if the U.S. forces and others stay in our beloved lands? What if their companies and embassy headquarters will continue to exist with the American flags hoisted on them? Will you be silent? Will you overlook this?
Muqtada al Sadr
You
Will
Others
Our
Embassy
Stay
Silent
Invasion
Headquarters
Forces
Overlook
Leave
Continue
Exist
American
What If
Flags
Them
Lands
Companies
Beloved
Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary 'what if' scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.
Naveen Jain
Time
You
Business
Feedback
Spend
Spent
Solid
Launching
Dreamed
Seeing
Scenarios
Gives
Could
Instead
Idea
Ideas
Real
Up
Conference
Wallow
What If
Fiddling
Room
Plan
Your
Floats
Filling
Actually
Imaginary
You have a very poor neighborhood. You have students that are required to go to school. They have no money, no habit of work. What if you paid them in the afternoon to work in the clerical office or as the assistant librarian?
Newt Gingrich
Work
You
Money
School
Neighborhood
Librarian
Habit
Students
Clerical
Go
Very
Office
What If
Afternoon
Them
Poor
Required
Paid
Assistant
The idea of a mentally ill vice president who suffers in complete isolation was obviously sparked by the behaviors I witnessed by Sarah Palin. What if somebody who was ill-equipped for the office were to ascend to the presidency or vice presidency? What would they do? How long would it take for people to figure it out?
Nicolle Wallace
People
Somebody
Long
Isolation
Presidency
President
Complete
Out
Would
Mentally
Take
Idea
Obviously
Witnessed
How
Were
Office
What If
Behaviors
Vice
Ascend
Vice President
Figure
Ill
Sarah
Sarah Palin
Who
Suffers
Palin
People say, 'What if your name was Niki Smith?' Well, if Niki Smith lived the life I've lived, it would have great bearing.
Niki Tsongas
Life
Great
People
Say
Would
People Say
Bearing
Name
Well
Smith
What If
Your
Lived
Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
Octavia E. Butler
Hurts
Pain
Head
Delusional
What If
Just
Just As Much
Much
Your
Trauma
Actual
We have all loved a guy we know has issues. Despite popular opinions, until we give it a final try, the relationship will always be in the 'what if' stage.
Patti Stanger
Relationship
Try
Will
Stage
Final
Despite
Give
Guy
Know
Until
Always
Opinions
Issues
What If
Loved
Popular
War has always been a part of science fiction. Even before the birth of SF as a standalone genre in 1926, speculative novels such as 'The Battle of Dorking' from 1871 showed how SF's trademark 'what if' scenarios could easily encompass warfare.
Paul Di Filippo
War
Science
Battle
Before
Birth
Easily
Scenarios
Could
Part
Genre
Science Fiction
Always
How
Trademark
Encompass
Been
What If
Fiction
Warfare
Even
Novels
Speculative
There are two questions that you ask yourself as a writer, and one of them is, 'But why?' The question that takes the book forward is, 'What if? What if x y or z happened? How would those characters react?'
Penny Jordan
You
Yourself
Book
Those
Characters
Would
Writer
Takes
React
How
Question
Questions
What If
Happened
Them
Ask
Forward
Why
Two
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