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		I want to have enough space to, I don't know, think thoughts. I mean, I just - I don't know that I'm capable of having an exciting, profound thought every week that's worth a column.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				David Plotz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Adam McKay 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Barbara Januszkiewicz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Samantha Shannon 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I really wanted to give people that tool, that thing, that answer, 'Well, what are you going to do after Katrina? How does New Orleans come back?' And I'm thinking to myself, New Orleans is back. We're the definition of 'back.' We're the definition of 'rebirth,' of 'renaissance.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Irvin Mayfield 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was never too much into school. I liked lunchtimes and breaks, but nah, I hated sitting at a desk. I was always looking out of the window, looking at my watch, thinking about when I could play football. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gareth Bale 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Tadao Ando 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		(To someone at New York University) If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Larry Wall 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		'There’s a catch,' Skellsgard said.'Another one? But of course there is. You know, I’m thinking I should start a collection.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Alastair Reynolds 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm inspired by artists like Robyn, just because she writes amazing pop songs, and they're not throwaway. When I listen to a Robyn pop song, I don't feel like she's just kind of saying something and not thinking; I feel like it's really emotional. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Charli XCX 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I grew up in San Diego, California, and I spent a lot of time in the summer basically living in a bathing suit, you know, get in the car and drive straight to the beach and spend the entire day in that thing, so I always approached bathing suits thinking that they are very much like outfits. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Emily Ratajkowski 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Patti Smith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				David Mamet 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Most people don't know that I have a huge phobia of bugs. It's gotten worse and worse over the years, but I just can't stand them! Even thinking about bugs makes me queasy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Kelli Berglund 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't check for Sean Hannity or Bill O'Reilly or any of these demons on the Right. They don't wake me up in the morning. I don't care about them, and they certainly don't drive the conversations I'm thinking about, but they do have an audience, and they do lie all day, every day about disenfranchised people. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jesse Williams 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When Kenny first came to me, I think he was thinking of making a nice little folk record, but in my opinion, folk music had come to an end and I felt he needed to go to the next step, the next generation. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		Lithium prevents my seductive but disastrous highs, diminishes my depressions, clears out the wool and webbing from my disordered thinking, slows me down, gentles me out, keeps me from ruining my career and relationships, keeps me out of a hospital, alive, and makes psychotherapy possible. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Kay Redfield Jamison 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was raised thinking I'd burn in hell for being gay, but I didn't have a choice. It's just who I am. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jai Rodriguez 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you just, pretty much, take a random 15-month-old, just sit and watch them for 10 minutes and count out how many experiments, how much thinking you see going on, and it will put the most brilliant scientist to shame. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Alison Gopnik