Thinking Quotes
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In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.
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Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.
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Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness.
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When something is aspirational, you don't want someone to be thinking about payment every single time.
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Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.
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The better you think , the better decisions you make . the better decisions you make , the better actions you take . the better actions you take , the better results you get
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Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.
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I think real forgiveness is a gift someone has to earn, and I don’t even have to worry about Kalona asking for my forgiveness unless he’s worthy of even considering it, and I just don’t see that happening.
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Whenever something good happens to me, I try-it may sound kind of bad-to think a little negative. I just always try to keep myself grounded.
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But I think I know just as many creative people who've never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs.
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There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.
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I think we have to be not so afraid of scarcity. We have to be willing to give away all things.
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I think it's the idea that beauty could be power, and that with power comes immortality, and with power comes control, and all of these other things are blocking her heart.
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What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make.
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Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there's a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There's a beautiful side to her; she's not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.
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One of the things I think the next president has to do is to stop fanning people's fears. If we spend all our time feeding the American people fear and conflict and division, then they become fearful and conflicted and divided. And if we feed them hope and we feed them reason and tolerance, then they will become tolerant and reasonable and hopeful.
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You’ll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You don’t want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there.” He held out his hand to shake Harry’s, but Harry didn’t take it. “I think I can tell who the wrong sort are for myself, thanks,” he said coolly.
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I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It's good for them.
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At 18, if someone had said to me, "I think you should go to rehab and get cleaned up," I would have thought, "You're fucking mad."
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Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one.
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I spent my entire experience with Gary on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy staring at him and not returning any lines because I think he's God. The second time on The Dark Knight Rises I was playing God, so I ignored him. Kicked him a bit, that kind of thing. Gary Oldman is one of my heroes, I did nothing but glean from him.
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A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.
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It's always been important to us to be original, which sounds really easy when you say it. Everyone says it all the time, but it's actually not that easy to be original. It's also something scary because if you're doing stuff that doesn't sound like anything else, I think a lot of people get scared of that. A lot of people tend to follow instead, they wait for something else to do something new and then they follow that. We just don't like to do that.
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It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.
