If you can relate to what the character's going through, the story can be as ridiculous as possible, and people will relate to it. You can be fearless in your storytelling if you're vigilant about protecting your characters.
‐‐ Drew Goddard
If you can remain true to the people who know you the best and not be sidetracked by the flashing lights and glimmering of the cameras, it's like, just being down-to-earth and just kind of staying real.
‐‐ Summer Altice
If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.
‐‐ Paul Kantner
If you can remove a female character from your plot and replace her with a sexy lamp and your story still works, you're a hack.
‐‐ Kelly Sue DeConnick
If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.
‐‐ Alan Bleasdale
If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
‐‐ Barry Commoner
If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future.
‐‐ Danielle Steel
If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.
‐‐ Sarah Caldwell
If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you're a starship captain or a time traveler.
‐‐ David Tennant
If you can sell yourself as someone who knows how Washington works, someone who has these relationships, that's a very marketable commodity. If you're seen as someone who knows how this town works, someone who is a usual suspect in this town, you can dine out for years - that's why no one leaves.
‐‐ Mark Leibovich
If you can serve everyone who visits you, you must be doing well in business.
‐‐ Ahmet Davutoglu
If you can show something as complicated as two people falling in love with just music and camera angles, well, just think about what you can do with football.
‐‐ Steve Sabol
If you can sing together, you can live together.
‐‐ Zubin Mehta
If you can sing, you never lose your voice. If you don't know how to sing, your voice goes away because you sing from your throat.
‐‐ Daryl Hall
If you can sit all generations of a family down and entertain them and, at the same time, leave them talking about existential notions, then that's fantastic.
‐‐ Tom Goodman-Hill
If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
‐‐ S. Jay Olshansky
If you can sort out why you feel the way you do then you might be in better shape to meet your maker.
‐‐ John Lydon
If you can speak English, and you can get a place on a proper course at a proper university, you can come to study in Britain.
‐‐ Theresa May
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
‐‐ Lin Yutang
If you can survive 'Saturday Night Live,' then you're good as far as show business is concerned.
‐‐ Tracy Morgan
If you can't access it, all the resources in the universe won't do you any good.
‐‐ Ann Leckie
If you can't afford organic food and are unable to grow your own, it's crucial to wash all inorganic produce very carefully to minimize the toxins you consume. Soak everything for 20 minutes in water with vinegar and salt or water with fresh lemon juice and salt.
‐‐ Suzanne Somers
If you can't afford the upkeep of your home, it makes no sense to do a reverse mortgage. You will just end up having to sell eventually when you realize you can't afford the home, and whether you have any equity left after the sale depends on the size of the reverse loan that must be settled.
‐‐ Suze Orman
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
‐‐ Kingsley Amis
If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
‐‐ Elbert Hubbard
If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington.
‐‐ Jim Hightower
If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.
‐‐ Alex Trebek
If you can't be persuasive to get people to believe your crazy idea, you can just go ahead and build it.
‐‐ Jim McKelvey
If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with.
‐‐ Stephen Stills
If you can't be with yourself, you'll never learn to be with anyone else.
‐‐ Kelly LeBrock
If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.
‐‐ George Carlin
If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.
‐‐ Serge Daney
If you can't believe, you can't achieve.
‐‐ Jeff Long
If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it and give you the money.
‐‐ Sandra Bullock
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
‐‐ Charles Revson
If you can't compete fairly, honestly, effectively, no government should intervene. Now, some governments do. They prop up failing industries.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton
If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.
‐‐ Bill Watterson
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
‐‐ Harry S Truman
If you can't do it and do it well, you can't do it, period.
‐‐ Judy Martz
If you can't do it, give up!
‐‐ Sigmund Freud
If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it.
‐‐ Peter O'Toole
If you can't eat it, can't sleep under it, can't wear it or make something from it, it's not worth anything.
‐‐ Don Young
If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.
‐‐ Rob Portman
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
‐‐ Albert Einstein
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
‐‐ Mother Teresa
If you can't find the next McDonald's, I'll find the next McDonald's. But it's vital to be with people who with looking for 'em, because they do exist. They are created.
‐‐ Jim Cramer
If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three.
‐‐ Robert Motherwell
If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself, and you repeat the same behavior.
‐‐ Bill Hader