Thinking Quotes
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I loved reading historical novels when I was young, but I definitely don't think I wrote one. When I read my book through, when it was completely done and in printed galleys, I was surprised by how uninterested in the passage of time and history the book seemed to be. Even though you can feel it all there, that's just not what it's focused on.
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I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.
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I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.
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There's a boy who they call Pony! He's always acting gross and horny! He thinks he's got a lot down there, but he sure wears tiny underwear!
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I think I'm most nervous about revealing how nervous I have always been. People think me calm, confident, poised. Inside I'm a jelly.
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Anyway, when I get sorta tense and start thinking about every shot, that's when my game falls apart.
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Jazz is so difficult. A lot of people think once they've learned these licks they can get up and play them for the rest of their life. But that's not being truthful to the music 'cause it's not developing. Cats you hear that don't make no mistakes? They ain't trying to do nothing. everything they hear is on the mark, but they've played it so many times... I've built a whole career out of making mistakes!
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I didn't grow up thinking, 'Oh, maybe someday I'm going to have a shoe named after me.'
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The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.
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When I said I was born a feminist, I was born thinking woman are equal to men, if not stronger than men. That's the way I always was.
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I don't think you ever really know what all you're doing, so you have to act on faith.
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I think when my mother died, it was such a - you know, a shock to the logic that I had been raised with.
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An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault.
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Ultimately, no one can ever be greater than the quality of his or her thinking.
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I think a lot of programs, policies have been put in place since 9/11, have prevented a 9/11-style attack. On the other hand, I think the threat has become greater, not lesser.
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I don't know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that's by the Constitution.
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People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about him. His eyes made a person think that he heard things that no one else had ever heard, that he knew things no one had ever guessed before. He did not seem quite human.
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Humility in this business [acting] isn't just a matter of being polite, it's kind of a matter of survival. You can't ever afford to think that you're the bee's knees, because you could always afford to be better. You have to always be searching for something better.
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I don't think we are the only planet that has life.
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I've never been more moved by a voice than I have been by Roy Orbison. I loved him personally, and I loved his voice. I think of him often and frequently listen to his songs.
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A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother-how reading goes out the window and thinking too.
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I generally don’t become overexcited about things anyway, I’m just not one of those people. I’m not easily surprised by things either. I think it’s because I expect that anything can happen
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Usually I'm thinking about the palette. I'm thinking about the color for the most part, then I'll start thinking about composition and movement.
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I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.
