Thinking Quotes
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Being part of a community of writers is huge. I really think that's why people go to MFA programs.
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When your effort is low, you're probably not thinking about the opportunity, you're thinking about the obligation.
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Can't Hardly Wait was a movie everyone wanted. I wanted the lead girl sooo badly, I think it was Lauren Ambrose. I wanted it so badly, I kept auditioning. I didn't get it, but I think everyone that auditioned - because everyone went out for it - got some screen time in it, like me.
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As long as you're having fun and still doing stuff, it doesn't matter what other people think.
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I find myself thinking about my ongoing existence as a human being and the path that lies ahead of me. Though of course these thoughts lead to but one place - death.
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And I think more of a concern has been not within the campaign, the mistakes that were made, not being able to react to the circumstances that those mistakes created in a real positive and professional and helpful way for John McCain.
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I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.
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I like being barefoot in my apartment. The comfiest shoe is the human foot, I think. There's all sorts of articles that say wearing a shoe is actually bad for the human foot. I love to go barefoot whenever I can.
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I think I grew up with the idea that God was a punishing being, constructed around rules.
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People will go into an audition and a casting situation, and they'll see someone across the room that's perhaps slightly famous, or famous, and they think, 'Oh God, I'm not gonna get the part.
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And then you think about what you think, which is very dangerous.
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Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most elderly individuals think they're getting their money back. So it isn't selfishness as much as a misunderstanding.
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I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.
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I think that any time reality doesn't match your expectations, it means that marketing was involved.
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Only a creature that can think symbolically about life can conceive of its own death. Our knowledge of death is part of our knowledge of life.
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I was thinking about framing, and how so much of what we think about our lives and our personal histories revolves around how we frame it. The lens we see it through, or the way we tell our own stories. We mythologize ourselves. So I was thinking about Persephone's story, and how different it would be if you told it only from the perspective of Hades. Same story, but it would probably be unrecognizable. Demeter's would be about loss and devastation. Hades's would be about love.
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Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.
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We should always be learning or we will cease to be able to change or adapt. I think the best work on leadership today is by Ronald Heifetz. His work is focused on adaptive leadership.
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But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.
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I think its so good for boxing when a new guy or new blood as we call it, makes a big statement.
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I do have a natural sense for business, which I think I get from my Dad.
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I think what I have done is claimed the space and pushed it forward as much as I can in relationship to who I am and how I live my life.
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I don't think anybody planned for me to be an actor. I didn't. I didn't know this was what I was going to do.
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I don't think most people know how to meditate - they fall asleep and they call it meditation.
