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“I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a sea shell, holding my ear against the rough bark of the trunk, hearing the inner singing of the sap. It's a lovely sound, the beating of the heart of the tree.”

Way Heart Sound Tree Sea Singing Ears Hearing Lovely Forests Rough Shells Bark Trunks Sap Sea Shell

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

Source: A Stone for a Pillow

“I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.”

Knows Character Behinds Normal Tragedy Unusual Abnormal Normal And Abnormal

Author:Isabelle Huppert

“I like to take things incrementally, and strive for something that feels more attainable.”

Feels Strive

Author:Carrie Brownstein

“I like to take things one step at a time, because the entertainment industry is very uncertain.”

Steps Industry Entertainment Uncertain Entertainment Industry One Step At A Time

Author:Rebel Wilson

“I like to take things that are boring-but-important and try to make them interesting. That was definitely what I was after with Eat The Rich.”

Trying Important Interesting Rich Boring

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“I like to take up something that is challenging. I like to stretch myself.”

Challenges

Author:Christine Lahti

“I like to talk about a thing I call a "practiced pause." Just a few moments of pausing allows me to consider a circumstance and take stock of what the best direction might be. Reactions tend to rise from habit and unconsidered action. A Response is considered and thoughtful. My actions are my own and I am, singularly, responsible for what I see, say, feel and exert.”

Feels Moments Might Action My Own Habit Circumstances Responsible Response Reactions Thoughtful Annoying Pauses Pausing

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“I like to talk about America. It's so mysterious.”

America Mysterious

Author:Robert Ashley

“I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald's. I'm completely turned off by the idea of politics.”

Ideas Universe Expansion Mcdonalds Coasters Turned Off

Author:Steven Wright

“I like to talk about my challenges as they relate to all of us, and I try to leave them with a sense of what it feels like to succeed at something and to arrive at a goal. I talk a lot about finding that thing that you feel is important to you, that's your calling, and about the reward you will get from staying with it, no matter what the challenges are.”

Feels Trying Important Matter Goal Challenges Calling Succeed Findings No Matter What Rewards Relate Staying

Author:Jerry Pinkney

“I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that 'Let's Move' is about complete, utter deprivation. It's about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.”

People Thinking Want Ideas Real Moving Real Life Obsession Life Changing Moderation Deprivation Fries French Fries

Author:Michelle Obama

“I like to talk about the idea of "design without design," where... we're creating the conditions for the things that we want to see happen rather than trying to force a particular set of outcomes.”

Want Trying Ideas Happens Force Conditions Design Particular Creating Outcomes

Author:Toby Hemenway

“I like to talk about very different topics. I like to jump around a lot because I don't want people to come see me and then for an hour I tell jokes about being a little person. I just don't want that to happen. I understand that it's part of me, that's the first thing that you notice and it's something that people are curious about.”

People Want Firsts Littles Persons Different Happens Hours Jokes Curious Topics

Author:Brad Williams

“I like to talk about weirdness. We all have strange thoughts and ideas, and when you really trust someone you can express them. And they can express them to you, and that's one of the joys of life.”

Joy Strange Joy Of Life Weirdness

Author:Rebecca Stead

“I like to talk come fight night, that's how I do it, but I'm not a pushover.”

Motivation Night Fighting Fighter Pushovers

Author:Andre Ward

“I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.”

Writing Tvs

Author:Truman Capote

“I like to talk to people. I've got one assistant, one Blackberry. That's my overhead. I don't text that much or email. I like to sit down face-to-face and have a conversation with you. I'm old-fashioned.”

People Faces Conversation Old Fashioned Email Face To Face Assistants Overhead Blackberries

Author:Mark Wahlberg

“I like to talk to the crowd on stage. I don't like going to a concert and feeling like the people on stage don't care whether or not I'm there.”

People Feelings Care Stage Crowds Don't Care Concerts

Author:Eric Hutchinson

“I like to talk while I'm on stage. It makes the show more personal. With that said, it's got to stay within reason or it's annoying.”

Said Reason Shows Stage Annoying

Author:Ron Pope

“I like to talk. I'm a terrible dancer. I love my hometown. I have freckles and oversized ears. I'm a geeks. I have tried not to hide who I am or what matters to me.”

Matter Honesty Terrible Ears Who I Am Dancer What Matters Geek Hometown Freckles

Author:Clay Aiken

Source: Learning to Sing

“I like to talk. Talking is kind of my thing. If talking had been a sport option at Wexford, I would have been captain. But sports always have to involve running, jumping, or swinging your arms around. You don’t get PE points for the smooth and rapid movement of the jaw.”

Ifs Kind Has Beens Running Sports Talking Movement Arms Captains Smooth Jumping Rapids

Author:Maureen Johnson

Source: The Madness Underneath (Shades of London, Book 2)

“I like to tell myself that truth is in the irregularity and the unexpected, and I try to look for both.”

Trying Looks Truth Is Unexpected Irregularity

Author:Catherine Taylor

“I like to tell old jokes on stage after about an hour, or an hour and a half. I'll bring those old ones back because the fans love them.”

Hours Half Fans Stage Jokes Old Jokes

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.”

People Inspirational Three Leadership Business Vision Products Execution Phases

Author:Steve Ballmer

“I like to tell people that I finally found something I'm really good at, and that's retirement.”

People Found Retirement

Author:Hank Greenwald

“I like to tell people when the final history is written on Iraq, it will look like just a comma because there is - my point is, there's a strong will for democracy.”

People Looks Strong Democracy Written Finals Iraq Strong Will

Author:George W. Bush

“I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.”

Ends Stories

Author:Eric Kripke

“I like to tell stories through dancing and singing.”

Stories Singing Dancing

Author:Elena Roger

“I like to tell students, 'I didn't burst on to the literary scene.' I'm never good at things at the beginning. I was terrible at the start. I need to work and work.”

Needs Students Terrible Scene

Author:Markus Zusak

“I like to tell the artist what the song or album means to me, in detail. Then I let the artist run with it and create in an unrestrained manner. Once the artist gets back to me with a few ideas, I like to do the little changes to make it perfectly speak to the audience.”

Mean Running Artist Song Speak Audience

Author:Rick DeJesus

“I like to tell the streets what the political climate is, and I like to tell any politicians that's listening what the streets think. And sometimes people get nicked up and bruised up, but I usually have a lot of good medicine for that.”

People Thinking Sometimes Political Streets Listening Politician Medicine Climate Bruised

Author:Ice Cube

“I like to tell the students the radio business's like surfing. You get knocked off your board by a wave, you get back up, stabilize, regain your balance and keep going. One thing I can guarantee them is that everything will change. You have to be ready for it. But that's life. Life constantly changes.”

Students Balance Wave Keep Going Surfing

Author:Terri Hemmert

“I like to tell untold true stories, or the lesser-known aspects of larger, familiar stories. I think people or topics that are slightly on the edge or outside the mainstream often reveal more than better-known stories.”

People Thinking Stories Known Aspect Edges Familiar Mainstream Topics True Story Lesser Known

Author:Nancy Kates

“I like to tell young people - you know one in four children die by their own hands - no matter how bad things seem, just wait a day, wait a week. Life will turn around.”

People Knows Children Matter Hands Seems Young Dies Turns Waiting Four Week Our Children Bad Things

Author:Lurlene McDaniel

“I like to test myself and see where I am and how I am against other people in this sport. I think that's the real draw for me.”

People Thinking Real Sports Draws Tests Mma

Author:Barb Honchak

“I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of loving grace.”

Thinking Grace Brother Labor Machines Ecology Brothers And Sisters Mammals

Author:Richard Brautigan

Source: Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar

“I like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of laughs. And people who describe it as a polarizing book or as an aggressive book, it's just that very often they haven't read it.”

People Thinking Book Laughing Havens Humorous Delusion Aggressive God Delusion Polarizing

Author:Richard Dawkins

“I like to think - knowing that it's an enabling fiction - of those moments as fragments from a world to come, a world where price isn't the only measure of value.”

Thinking World Moments Values Fiction Knowing Fragments Enabling

Author:Ben Lerner

“I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.”

Thinking Technology Machines Relation Architecture Landscape

Author:Antoine Predock

Source: Antoine Predock, architect

“I like to think about music as a sport. But only in terms of golf, as far as the course being music and me being the golfer. So it's competitive but only with yourself. With the last one doing well, it made it a challenge to feel like I was improving in some way.”

Thinking Way Feels Wells Made Lasts Courses Sports Term Challenges Golf Made It Improving Golfers

Author:Panda Bear

“I like to think about the bestseller list as, "This is the medicine cabinet of a very sick country." Let me look and see what they're reading that isn't nourishing them.”

Thinking Looks Country Reading Sick Let Me Medicine Lists Cabinets

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“I like to think about the genre, the essay or the memoir, as much as I enjoy writing within its fluid parameters. And teaching allows me to think about it, to articulate it, and to explore it.”

Thinking Writing Enjoy Teaching Memoir Essays

Author:Jill Talbot

“I like to think about what the song is saying, the story of it, and conveying the mood of that to the audience. But at the same time, sharing through interacting with them and engaging them.”

Thinking Stories Song Audience Mood Engaging Interacting Conveying

Author:Bridgit Mendler

“I like to think both - it's not either/or. It's and.”

Thinking Either Or

Author:Jane Fonda

“I like to think Duke Ellington would probably embrace a fragrance as well.”

Thinking Wells Embrace Fragrance Dukes

Author:Bryan Ferry

“I like to think each writer is doing his or her part. Feeding the lake, as Jean Rhys said. And maybe there are different lakes.”

Thinking Different

Author:Rachel Kushner

“I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her worms to fill in the grave, and her grass to cover it pitifully up, adding flowers - as an unknown hand added them to the grave of Nero.”

Thinking Hands Flower London Graves Setting Settings Grass Sheets Worms Spiders Nero

Author:Edward Thomas

Source: The South Country

“I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Breakfast Southern Grit Well Mannered

Author:Michael C. Hall

“I like to think I can keep a pretty level head.”

Thinking I Can Levels Beauty

Author:Luke Wilson

“I like to think I don't make music for ignorant people.”

People Thinking Ignorant Ignorant People

Author:Tinie Tempah

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