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“I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.”

Thinking Doe Ideas Nationalism Nationality

“I don't think my work has to be loved by everyone, and it's loved by enough people that I'm grateful and able to keep going.”

People Thinking Enough Able Grateful Keep Going

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“I don't think my work is so much about opening up wounds. I think it's about understanding the nature of the wound. I'm not bleeding on the canvas. I, like most people, have suffered traumatic events. The character of a person's life is determined by the way they deal with those events. I am a creative person and I deal with it creatively.”

“I don't think my work is so strange. It's just a matter of having the discipline to go the whole way with an idea, to stretch it as far as it can go.”

Thinking Way Ideas Matter Whole Strange Discipline

Author:Matthew Barney

“I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.”

Thinking Writing Humans Human Beings Sentimental

Author:William Saroyan

Source: He flies through the air with the greatest of ease: a William Saroyan reader

“I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.”

Thinking Different Fields Different Things Nationalism Holding On Contention

Author:Peter Singer

“I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.”

Thinking Nations Genocide Cleansing Ethnic Cleansing

Author:John Major

“I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.”

Thinking Mother Opinion Trouble Oneself Invention Arise Memorable Laziness Idleness Inventing Hercule Poirot Discovery And Invention Borrowed Time Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention

Author:Agatha Christie

Source: An autobiography

“I don't think Neil Young has a beautiful voice but it's something that grabs you and the songs are so good.”

Thinking Beautiful Young Song Voice Beautiful Voice

Author:Lykke Li

“I don't think nobody should compare me to anyone, 'cause, at the end of the day, you've got a 'Pac, you've got Snoop, you got Tip, you got Wayne - there's only one Jeezy, man. Ain't nobody walked in these shoes but me.”

Thinking Men Should Ends Causes Shoes Compare The End Of The Day Wayne Pacs

Author:Young Jeezy

“I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.”

Thinking Negative Nostalgia

Author:Van Morrison

“I don't think nothing. I just do my work.”

Thinking

Author:Lil Wayne

“I don't think nudity is a bad thing, I don't think people should be embarrassed about their bodies, and I don't mind whipping it out.”

People Thinking Should Mind Body Bad Things Embarrassed Nudity Whipping

Author:John Barrowman

“I don't think Obama understands basic economics. Not economics that work. He may understand some theory that someone in Princeton sat and dreamed up, but it's not working.”

Thinking May Theory Economics Sat Princeton

Author:Rick Perry

“I don't think Obama's a socialist or evil, I just think he's wrong and I disagree with him, he's a leftist, that's what they are in France and in Great Britain and in Canada.”

Thinking Evil France Britain Canada Disagree Socialist Great Britain Leftists

Author:Jonathan Krohn

“I don't think objectively we are in a tech bubble when tech stocks are at a 30 year low.”

Thinking Years Lows Bubbles

Author:Marc Andreessen

“I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.”

Source: The diary of a young girl

“I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains....My advice is: Go outside, to the fields, enjoy nature and the sunshine, go out and try to recapture happiness in yourself and in God. Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you and be happy!”

Thinking Trying Stills Left Enjoy Beauty Advice Fields Remains Misery Sunshine Thanksgiving

Author:Anne Frank

“I don't think of an actor. I think in the character, and then I search for the actor. Usually I'm thinking without names, because they will change my idea. No big egos. If I want egos - just mine. That is enough.”

Ifs Thinking Want Ideas Enough Character Bigs Actors Names Mines Ego Big Ego

Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky

“I don't think of any sentence as a "one-liner", but I do pay attention to how people actually speak when they are being funny. Rhythm is key.”

People Thinking Speak Pay Attention Keys Sentences Rhythm Pay Attention One Liner Being Funny

Author:Lorrie Moore

“I don't think of anyone as a 'groupie.' People who connect with my music are just inspiring and amazing.”

People Thinking Groupie

Author:BANKS

“I don't think of being a woman in an industry of men. I didn't walk into the kitchen and go, 'Ooh, I'm a girl!' I didn't get into my chosen profession. I wanted to be good at something.”

Thinking Men Wanted Girl Walks Industry Be Good Profession Chosen Kitchen Being A Woman

Author:April Bloomfield

“I don't think of Bush as a particularly angry person - if anything, he has a facility for not harboring grudges, for letting things roll off of his back after momentarily bristling.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Angry Facility Grudge Angry Person

Author:Robert Draper

“I don't think of color, I think that anyone wants a master of their skill and be successful knows no color.”

Thinking Knows Want Successful Color Masters Skills Being Successful

Author:Maxine Powell

“I don't think of community as being a romantic notion. I think it's as vital as air and water, and so I think that informs a lot of what I write about. It could be a story about a couple, or a song about the slow death of the family farm or a small town.”

Thinking Writing Stories Song Water Community Air Couple Towns Notion Farms Small Town Air And Water Family Farms

Author:Greg Brown

“I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.”

Thinking Way

Author:Robert Smith

“I don't think of decorating as a science or a discipline. People always say start with the rug, but it is often the last thing I end up selecting. I begin with whatever makes my heart sing.”

People Thinking Heart Ends Lasts Discipline My Heart Decor Decorating

Author:Deborah Buck

“I don't think of design as a job. I think of it as - and I hate to use this term for it - more of a calling. If you're just doing it because it's a nice job and you want to go home and do something else, then don't do it, because nobody needs what you're going to make.”

Ifs Thinking Want Needs Use Home Jobs Hate Term Nice Design Calling I Hate

Author:Paula Scher

“I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.”

Thinking Kind Art Form Results Position Architecture Realms Visuals Wholeness

Author:Roy Lichtenstein

“I don't think of God as an old white man with no belly button, nor even an old black woman with no belly button. But I agree that God is something eternal. Something cannot come out of nothing. I believe God is Everything. And I believe in infinity.”

Thinking Men Believe I Believe Black White Eternal Agree I Believe In Believe In God Infinity Buttons White Man Black Women Belly Belly Buttons

Author:Pete Seeger

“I don't think of Hillary Clinton as a bad choice. She's an uninspiring choice. She is a deeply imperfect choice, largely for reasons of her own tendency to get into a defensive crouch and create greater problems for herself and the rest of us by refusing to have a transparent reckoning.”

Thinking Reason Problem Choices Greater Clinton Tendencies Imperfect Transparent Reckoning Bad Choices Uninspiring

Author:George Packer

“I don't think of Home Depot as romantic, but I do think the Christmas wonderland they put up during the holidays is magical. That is what Home Depot is to me, and that is the only romantic thing about it.”

Thinking Home Holiday Wonderland

Author:Betty Who

“I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.”

Thinking Way Might Given Competition Surprise

Author:Sam Mendes

“I don't think of it as difficult. It would be difficult if I were carrying something heavy, but I carry Leicas. You can't talk about it that way. I'm not operating a shovel and getting tired.”

Ifs Thinking Way Would Be Difficult Tired Heavy Shovels Getting Tired Leica

Author:Garry Winogrand

“I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work to accumulate urgency.”

Thinking Allowing Procrastination Urgency

Author:Maud Newton

“I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people.”

People Thinking Moments Young Interest Roles

Author:Isabelle Adjani

“I don't think of Kurt as 'Kurt Cobain from Nirvana'. I think of him as 'Kurt'. It's something that comes back all the time. Almost every day.”

Thinking Cobain

Author:Dave Grohl

“I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something.”

Thinking Way Book Ends Reading Literature Communicate

Author:Isabel Allende

“I don't think of love in terms of relationships. It happens in terms of seconds, but it goes away like that, too. I pass a nurse, I love her, it ends when I go around a corner; at a restaurant I see a forlorn man at the table next to me, and I love him, and the conversation pulls me back, and it's ended. A patient comes in, and she is sick, and I love her, and then she dies, and I never see her again. This is what I live for. Don't think that it's sad.”

Author:Patrick Somerville

“I don't think of Maria Schneider like idol anymore, because I worshipped her when I was young.”

Thinking Young Idols

Author:Nan Goldin

“I don't think of marriage as the drudge work that a lot of sitcoms and movies might have shown it to be, I think it's more deadly murderous rage, unadulterated passion, soul-crushing purgatorial dread... It's more interesting.”

Thinking Soul Might Passion Interesting Rage Crush Dread Sitcom

Author:Rob Delaney

“I don't think of music as being a competition - what I make is exactly what I want it to be for me, and it's not better or worse than anything else. I'm just trying to be the best at what I am, or that I possibly can be. And when I've done that, I feel incredibly confident and there's nothing anyone can see to dampen that, but I don't think that because it means something to me, it has to necessarily mean something to other people.”

People Thinking Trying Mean Done Competition Being The Best

Author:Jenn Wasner

“I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.”

Thinking Men Writing Book Interest Great Men Zero Biographies

Author:Robert Caro

“I don't think of my characters as people I create, I think of them more as people I have met and whom I'm exploring on the page. I don't actually think of myself as having 'created' any of these people.”

People Thinking Character Mets Pages Exploring

Author:Lisa Unger

“I don't think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's a life!”

Thinking Stuff Careers Knowledge Learning Management

Author:Steve Jobs

“I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?”

Thinking Knows Mean Names Strange Do You Know Cliche Eccentric

Author:Val Kilmer

“I don't think of my music as being about something.”

Thinking

Author:Paul Lansky

“I don't think of my music as something that works well in the background. And because a lot of it isn't in 4/4, people might not like to dance to it.”

People Thinking Wells Might Backgrounds

Author:Max Tundra

“I don't think of my opponents in the sense that I don't think of them consciously, I don't steer it one way or the other.”

Thinking Way One Way Opponents Steers

Author:David Cross

“I don't think of my plays as steamy places where people display huge amounts of emotions. The feeling is underneath, which in my experience is where most feeling is. I don't myself spend my life shouting in rooms, and I don't really believe things in which people do spend their time in total hysteria.”

People Thinking Believe Play Feelings Rooms Emotion Huge Amount Display Shouting Hysteria

Author:David Hare

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