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“And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press.”
“And I think, "I'm so fucking lonely". I go home and cry for a while. I am almost 32. That's not old especially in New York. But the fact is it has been years since I even liked someone. So how likely is it I'll meet someone I love enough to marry? I'm tired of not knowing who I'll be with, or if I'll be with anyone.”
Source: Gone Girl
“And I think I often choose to do something because it's quite different from what I've done before.”
“And I think I thought that if I said something everyone would notice that I didn't belong.”
Source: Topics of Conversation
“And I think I’ve found the real benefit of digital memory. The point is not to prove you were right; the point is to admit you were wrong.
Because all of us have been wrong on various occasions, engaged in cruelty and hypocrisy, and we’ve forgotten most of those occasions. And that means we don’t really know ourselves. How much personal insight can I claim if I can’t trust my memory? How much can you? You’re probably thinking that, while your memory isn’t perfect, you’ve never engaged in revisionism of the magnitude I’m guilty of. But I was just as certain as you, and I was wrong. You may say, "I know I'm not perfect. I've made mistakes." I am here to tell you that you have made more than you think, that some of the core assumptions on which your self-image is built are actually lies.”
Source: The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling
“And I think I'm an adrenaline junkie, and there's nothing that will spike your adrenaline more than sitting in a theater and listen to an audience react to something you've written.”
“And I think, if thoughts are worth a penny, how much less promises must be worth. Especially the ones you're likely to break.”
Source: Challenger Deep
“And I think if you look at any relationship, for the relationship to be productive and to move forward and to grow, sometimes things have to be said that one person or the other person is not going to like to hear.”
“And I think if you're going to be with somebody, you owe it to them to show yourself.”
Source: Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
“And I think in theater, people don't really focus on the media unless there's a huge superstar doing a play or something.”
“And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 years.”
“And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.”
“And I think it was the outline of that church tower at Belaugh against the sky which gave me a passion for churches so that every church I've past since I've wanted to stop and look in.”
Source: John Betjeman: coming home : an anthology of his prose 1920-1977
“And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way.”
“And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano... and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard.”
“And I think it's because good cons are all based on the victim's need, and the successful con artist is the one, I guess, who can exploit that. I remember reading something about this, that one of the great traits of confidence tricksters is the level that they flatter their victim.”
“And I think it's really easy for people to point out hypocrisy in people's lives.”
“And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.”
“And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.”
“And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.”
“And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.”
“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.”
“And I think more than anything else, I know when I go to bed that no one's working harder doing what I'm doing, and I think, quite frankly, simply that hard work at some point was gonna pay off.”
“And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working.”
“And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.”
“And I think my husband knows who he married,' I say. Grady laughs. 'I would think if this taught you anything, it’s that no one knows who they marry,' he says.”
Source: The Last Thing He Told Me
“And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.”
“And I think my spaceship knows which way to go.”
“And I think now, as my fiftieth birthday draws near, about the American novelist Thomas Wolfe, who was only thirty-eight years old when he died. He got a lot of help in organizing his novels from Maxwell Perkins, his editor at Charles Scribner’s Sons. I have heard that Perkins told him to keep in mind as he wrote, as a unifying idea, a hero’s search for a father.
It seems to me that really truthful American novels would have the heroes and heroines alike looking for mothers instead. This needn’t be embarrassing. It’s simply true.
A mother is much more useful.
I wouldn’t feel particularly good if I found another father.”
Source: Breakfast Of Champions
“And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose”
Source: The Joy Luck Club
“And I think of being young, how women are taught, piece by piece, how they fit into the world. But that's not where it started either. I was born a woman. I was born to disappear.”
Source: If I Disappear
“And I think of nothing. I think of nothing but Rachel. What happens next is pure magic, and is for us and us alone.”
“And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.”
“and I think of the ice I waded out
on as a kid, of how often the world
seems like it’s going to shatter,
but then, miraculously,
mercilessly, does not.”
“And I think, one of the reasons I've stayed in Italy is that I believe, perhaps erroneously, perhaps sentimentally, perhaps merely in reaction to my own childhood of church bells and rainy weekends - I do believe that kids have a better time here, that adolescence is more fun here. Certainly I never saw a group of people so confident and at ease with themselves and their youth. I wish it for my children.”
Source: An Italian Education
“And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.”
“And I think right now I'm just enjoying finding something such as One Weekend a Month where I can really resonate with this woman's history and her situation.”
“And I think Taylor Swift is just an exemplary young lady. It's kind of interesting to see what a profound songwriter she is. I don't even think anyone has realized, the long term is going to be the bigger revelation. It's incredible how quickly she writes songs. We've hung out a couple times, we live near each other in Nashville.”
“And I think that a woman as chancellor can also serve as a good example,.”
“And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path.”
“And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.”
“And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it.”
“And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary”
“And I think that every American - this is an all-hands-on-deck moment for America. And I think it is good and important that every American is informed, understands the issues and whether I agree with them or not, comes into the public forum and we hear from them.”
“and I think that everything in life is kind of unreal, isn't it?”
“And I think that George Bush really is a very godly person.”
“And I think that if I were a for real celebrity that was recognizable everywhere, I'd just crawl under a rock and you know, have someone run over the rock with a car, or something.”
“And I think that if something doesn't make sense, forcing yourself to understand it from [Chris Nolan's] perspective makes you better.”
“And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces.”
“And I think that it is certainly possible that the objective universe can be affected by the poet. I mean, you recall Orpheus made the trees and the stones dance and so forth, and this is something which is in almost all primitive cultures. I think it has some definite basis to it. I'm not sure what. It's like telekinesis, which I know very well on a pinball machine is perfectly possible.”
Source: The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer