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“I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern.”

Thinking Order Wish Patterns Genre Disorder

Author:P. D. James

“I don't think writers should be convenient examples. I don't think we should make people feel settled. I don't try to be a gadfly, but I do think that real ideas are troublesome. There should be something about my work that leaves the reader unsettled. I intend that.”

People Thinking Feels Should Trying Ideas Real Example Reader Convenient Troublesome Gadflies

Author:Richard Rodriguez

“I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.”

Thinking Should Writing Answers

Author:Paul Haggis

“I don't think writing fiction has changed my worldview.”

Thinking Writing Fiction Changed Worldview Writing Fiction

Author:Donald Ray Pollock

“I don't think writing or co-writing my songs makes me a better singer, but I haven't really got an excuse not to do it as I've got too many opinions!”

Thinking Writing Song Opinion Havens Excuse Singers

Author:Sophie Ellis Bextor

“I don't think writing stops until the film is out. In the edit, it's another draft. [The script] is the food for set, and then the set is food for the edit, and the edit is food for the screen. It's constant, and this is just the first stage of it.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Film Stage Constant Scripts Screens Edits

Author:Daniel Kaluuya

“I don't think you can be a Catholic without an accompanying measure of guilt.”

Thinking Catholic Guilt

Author:Mia Farrow

“I don't think you can be a credible, modern candidate for president without making the environment a major part of your platform.”

Thinking President Environment Modern Majors Candidates Platforms Credible

Author:Graydon Carter

“I don't think you can be a designer if you don't care.”

Ifs Thinking Care Don't Care Designer

Author:Alber Elbaz

“I don't think you can be a director without a kind of sense of competitiveness.”

Thinking Kind Directors Competitiveness

Author:David Heyman

“I don't think you can be a diver without a shark on the list.”

Thinking Lists Sharks

Author:Natalie Dormer

“I don't think you can be a good listener unless you're a good listener. I think it's something that you really have to do, and if you really do it, then you can do it. If you don't do it, then you can't do it.”

Ifs Thinking Can Do Listeners You Can Do It Good Listener

Author:Dick Gephardt

“I don't think you can be a good musician if you just listen to rap, or just the [type of music] you do. You gotta be open to other ideas.”

Ifs Thinking Ideas Type Musician Rap Just Listen

Author:Freddie Gibbs

“I don't think you can be a mysterious rock star the same way you could in 1965 because there's too much information. Everything you do is available all the time. So the only thing you can rely on is not being false.”

Thinking Way Stars Too Much Rocks Information Available Mysterious Rely Rock Star Too Much Information

Author:Chris Martin

“I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.”

Thinking Knows Certain Amount Apocalypse Caribbean

Author:Junot Diaz

“I don't think you can be in public life without being called bad names.”

Thinking Names Public Life

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I don't think you can be involved in film and not be a fan of theirs. The one that I just go back to and can watch anytime it's on TV and I'll watch to the end, is Fargo. I think it's, like, a perfect film, it's genius.”

Thinking Ends Film Perfect Watches Fans Tvs Genius Involved Fargo

Author:Kelly Macdonald

“I don't think you can be successful in television without appealing to women. I don't think it's possible. I think that men like women. It doesn't really matter what they do - they love anything. But women don't necessarily like every woman, so I think that's a challenge to get the female audience to not only relate to you but also like you.”

Thinking Men Matter Challenges Audience Successful Television Like You Female Relate Being Successful

Author:Maggie Q

“I don't think you can be too ashamed of anything as long as you were being yourself. I think why people feel, um, so entitled over me is that they've watched me grow up. But that's a blessing and a curse.”

People Thinking Feels Long Grows Growing Up Blessing Curse Being Yourself Ashamed Entitled

Author:Miley Cyrus

“I don't think you can become an outstanding runner unless you get a certain amount of enjoyment out of the suffering. You have to enjoy absorbing it, controlling it, and - ultimately - overcoming it.”

Thinking Certain Suffering Enjoy Amount Overcoming Enjoyment Runners Outstanding Absorbing

Author:Derek Clayton

“I don't think you can become what they became without being more than just a pretty face and a great body - you had to have something else.”

Thinking Pretty Face

Author:Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

“I don't think you can bring the races together by joking about the differences between them. I'd rather talk about the similarities, about what's universal in their experiences.”

Thinking Together Differences Race Universal Similarity

Author:Bill Cosby

“I don't think you can bury words. I think the more you try to dismiss them, the more power you give to them, the more circulation they have.”

Thinking Giving Trying Circulation

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“I don't think you can call it stalking when it's just phone calls and letters and emails and knocking on the door.”

Thinking Doors Letters Phones Email Knocking Stalking Phone Calls

Author:Nick Hornby

“I don't think you can call yourself a freedom-loving American and be a Democrat.”

Thinking Democrat

Author:Tom Emmer

“I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.”

Thinking Made Reality Felt Mistake Skins Made A Mistake

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“I don't think you can consistently be a winning trader if you're banking on being right more than 50 percent of the time. You have to figure out how to make money being right only 20 to 30 percent of the time.”

Ifs Thinking Winning Figures Percent Making Money Consistently Banking Traders

Author:Bill Lipschutz

“I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.”

Thinking Interesting Comfort Zone Comfort Zone

Author:Charlize Theron

“I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.”

Thinking Expectations Service Business

Author:Nic Pizzolatto

“I don't think you can create luck. You're either lucky or you're not. I don't know if it's really luck or if it's just curiosity. I think the main ingredient, or a main ingredient for photography is curiosity. If you're curious enough and if you get up in the morning and go out and take pictures, you're likely to be more lucky than if you just stay at home.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Enough Home Morning Lucky Photography Luck Curiosity Photographer Get Up Curious Ingredients Stay At Home

Author:Elliott Erwitt

“I don't think you can decide how famous or not you become.”

Thinking

Author:Rupert Friend

“I don't think you can develop or learn a way of seeing or a point of view. A way of seeing is who you are, how you think and how you create images. It is something that is inside of you. It's how you look at the world.”

Thinking World Way Looks Views Seeing Who You Are Point Of View

Author:Mary Ellen Mark

“I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Trying I Can Play Character Actors Millions Let Me Budgets

Author:Ryan Gosling

“I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.”

Thinking Giving Can Do Giving Up

Author:Bernard Malamud

Source: The Natural: A Novel

“I don't think you can erase memory, you can just bury it, and when we're ready to process old traumas they can reveal themselves in unique ways.”

Thinking Way Process Memories Ready Unique Trauma Erase

Author:Ed Gass-Donnelly

“I don't think you can escape the environment we live in now.”

Thinking Environment

Author:Donald Fagen

“I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying Believe Wells Character Jobs Film Believe In Yourself

Author:Frances McDormand

“I don't think you can ever do too much. Life would be so boring if you didn't have these, like, holes to fall into and climb out of. I want to do everything. I just want everything. I don't think you can ever have too much.”

Ifs Thinking Want Would Be Fall Too Much Boring Holes Climbs So Boring

Author:Courtney Love

“I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.”

Thinking Trying Wisdom Process Perfection Songwriting Doing Your Best

Author:Townes Van Zandt

“I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost.”

Thinking Life Lost Space Empty Empty Space

Author:John Green

Source: An Abundance of Katherines

“I don't think you can ever make enough to be set for life. Well, I guess there are limits. In the billions, I guess.”

Thinking Wells Enough Limits Billions

Author:Dustin Diamond

“I don't think you can ever please all audiences.”

Thinking Audience Please Songwriting So Boring

Author:Karan Johar

“I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance.”

Thinking Ignorance Songwriting So Boring

Author:Carla Bley

“I don't think you can ever return, really.”

Thinking Return

Author:Robert Redford

“I don't think you can explain why all these other sports and college basketball have a fair representation of African American coaches, but college football doesn't. You can dig and scramble and scratch, but at the end of the day I think it's just pure, old-fashioned racism.”

Thinking Ends Sports Football College Pure Basketball Racism Fairs Coaches African American The End Of The Day Representation Old Fashioned Scratches College Football College Basketball

Author:Frank Deford

“I don't think you can get an idea of what Israel is like until you get here. People don't realize what a great place it is.”

People Thinking Ideas Realizing Israel

Author:Paul Anka

“I don't think you can get any more working class than me. Everyone seems posh to me.”

Thinking Seems Class Working Class Posh

Author:Danny Dyer

“I don't think you can get away with putting your talents in a toilet bowl and not having them flushed away. Forever. There is a level of murder of one's soul and of the culture that they're supposed to be feeding vitamins to.”

Thinking Soul Culture Levels Forever Talent Murder Supposed To Be Get Away Bowls Feeding Toilets Vitamins

Author:Sean Penn

“I don't think you can go into a telecast saying this is what I'm going to say, and when I'm going to say it. You go in with a gameplan, but you have to be able to adjust.”

Thinking Able

Author:Dave Pasch

“I don't think you can guess what people will really like. You have to come at it from a more natural place and then kind of hope that your taste is shared by enough people to keep going.”

People Thinking Kind Enough Natural Like You Taste Keep Going Really Like You

Author:Jonathan Nolan

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