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“I guess I strike people as very serious, or very intense.”
“I guess I studied a little bit of economics back in my day. Then I read somewhere that economics is a form of brain damage. the more I thought about it the more, it made sense. Any theory of economics that does not include things such as Value, and Effort and the Phenomenon of Unequal distribution of pussy is bullshit. For instance, if you're gonna offer me a job, and I cannot afford to spend some time with a decent looking girl in Vegas once a month, for instance, I think you're not paying me enough.”
“I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.”
Source: The Books of the South: Tales of the Black Company
“I guess I tend to see divine appointments everywhere. I am always on the alert for opportunities. So I prefer to err on the side of witnessing too often than not enough.”
“I guess I think I'm writing for people who are smarter than I am, because then I'll be doing something that's worth their time. I'd be very afraid to write from a position where I consciously thought I was smarter than most of my readers.”
“I guess I think of a musical as something in which the music is sort of like the engine of the piece - whether it is in the theatre or in film.”
“I guess I think that films have to be made totally by fascists -- there's no room for democracy in making film.”
“I guess I think that sex and desire and humiliation are central to my experience of consciousness - to my experience of humanness - and I wanted to explore the ways that they circle around and approach and fail to add up to love, or the ways that those three terms - sex, desire, love - can in some lights seem synonymous and in others like elements entirely alien to one another.”
“I guess I thought I was Elvis Presley but I'll tell ya something. All Elvis did was stand on a stage and play a guitar. He never fell off on that pavement at no 80 mph.”
“I guess I thought the strength of my wanting would be enough to make him appear.”
Source: Mine Till Midnight
“I guess I try and learn all the time from every experience in life, so my thinking is a hybrid of everything. I'd have to attribute some of that to my work in the fashion industry - in some obscure way.”
“I guess I try to find the humor by juxtaposing deeper themes in literature with what people perceive as being lighter, disposable children's fare in comics.”
“I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.”
“I guess—I’ve been hurt by him,' he continued, not sounding like himself, 'but the reason I am hurt is because I love him. And I know that love is weakness, and that you always told me not to give my heart to anyone who could destroy it, but I guess, that is the point of love, is it not? To give yourself so fully to another, knowing that they have the power to destroy you?”
Source: The Light that Binds Us
“I guess, I've been waiting for so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“I guess I've found that I'd rather be alone than with the wrong person.”
Source: Just One of the Guys
“I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.”
“I guess I wanted to emulate the artists that my parents were listening to when I was growing up. I've always had this affinity for folk music, and music in general, for as long as I can remember. So as soon as I could start playing shows, I did. And my parents were really supportive of me the entire time.”
“I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.”
“I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.”
“I guess I was a bit of a tomboy. I liked to catch frogs in the ditch, play soccer with my brother’s friends and play video games.”
“I guess I was a combination of House of Pain and Bobby Brown:
I was humpin' around and jumpin' around!”
“I guess I was a conspiracy theorist when I said "no weapons in Iraq." Now they call that history.”
“I guess I was a little bit nervous, because there seemed to be so much secrecy with Ben [Stiller] wanting to make sure that it was a surprise when we walked out on the [Valentino] runway. I remember showing up at Place Vendôme and doing the fitting and seeing the pajamas that I was going to wear - which I like very much - and seeing Ben arrive kind of in disguise.”
“I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.”
“I guess I was a nice girl with a nice figure, because I just had to wear a bathing suit and dive in the pool. I was kind of candy, eye candy.”
“I guess I was a philosophical child.”
“I guess I was about 15. I wore glasses at the time, and I remember [first girlfriend] sitting on the floor at a party, one of those school parties where everyone is getting off with each other. I remember her taking my glasses off and saying something very complimentary about my eyes or whatever, and I was just so pissed off because I was convinced she was taking the piss out of me.”
“I guess I was always envious of people who got to move to New York for college because they got to see the city that I, perhaps, was pretty jaded by with new eyes and discover for themselves that Andy Warhol was dead.”
“I guess I was an early method actress. I would go to a quiet part of the sound stage with my mother. I wouldn't think of anything sad, I would just make my mind a blank. In a minute I could cry.”
“I guess I was dumb to think a vermin like you could ever stop infesting my house."
He grins, his dimples pressing into his cheeks. "You think I'm irreplaceable? Oh, stop, you're full of lines today.”
Source: Against All Odds
“I guess I was just a child and did my best to play, despite the worry and sorrow in my family. I remember the way Mama Jan used to put the burqa on, as it was really heavy, so heavy that she may collapse under its weight. And one day I asked her if she needed help because the burqa seemed to be very heavy. She looked at me with very sad eyes and murmured that yes, wearing it was very heavy. I didn’t understand the meaning of her words back then, but I do now.”
Source: Letters from Afghanistan
“I guess I was maybe in little league baseball as far as I wanted to be good at that. But school, I certainly wasn't the best at that. But comedy thing and making movies and stuff, I love it so much that I do get driven to push myself as hard as I can.”
“I guess I was popular in high school.”
“I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.”
“I guess I was seeking some balance in the wildlife of the city as Rachel Carson sought it in nature. In unbalanced times, balance is as difficult to come by as Parsifal's Grail.”
Source: The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century
“I guess I was the best version of myself
when I was your glass-two-fingers-full.”
Source: Life Will Kill You, My Friend
“I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with - ... namely America... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things.”
“I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.”
Source: Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider
“I guess I watch more MTV than you do. I'm a junkie for it.”
“I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.”
“I guess I will probably produce a little bit more. For me it's a career, you create as you go along and you can't worry about always being on top.”
“I guess I will say, going back to the Judaism questions, there are mental reflexes or patterns that I think of as Jewish in my own feelings about mysticism and theology.Franz Kafka is someone I very much revere. If I believed in holy texts I'd go to him as a touchstone. Not that I read Kafka all the time at this point. In a way, this is what I most want to talk about and it's the hardest to talk about.”
“I guess I wish we could talk about: what does it mean to have a politics of intersectionality that also privileges what form of domination is most oppressing us at a given moment in time.”
“I guess I wonder what it would be like, to be living their live instead of mine.”
Source: OCD Love Story
“I guess I worry about weird existential things, like how do we spend our final act. This is a very emotional question. I can't answer it without crying. I think, You're 56 years old, what did you do? You raised two good kids. What am I going to do now that is as meaningful as that? I don't know the answer yet.”
“I guess I would call my music blues punk. Theres a lot of influences.”
“I guess I would ideally want to be 20 physically, but 40 mentally.”
“I guess I would know more about permaculture than most people, and I can't define it. It's multi-dimensional - chaos theory was inevitably involved in it from the beginning.”
“I guess I would model myself after the Bill Condons, the Frank Darabonts and the David Nutters if I were to direct a feature, which I would love to do, by the way.”