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“I think a human animal is far more wild and unpredictable and dangerous and destructive than any other animal.”

Thinking Humans Animal Dangerous Destructive Unpredictable Human Animal

“I think a large part of an actor's job in preparation is just making the words feel organic to them, and obviously they came out of me, so they felt organic to me already. And then I think then it was all about clearing away all the other voices.”

Thinking Preparation

Author:Zoe Kazan

“I think a legitimate target is the enemy and [the] enemy is basically in uniform, but not all [are] in Uniform. For example in the rural areas, our judgement is that virtually the whole farming community is part of the South African Defence Force.”

Thinking Whole Force Community Enemy Example Areas South Judgement Target South Africa Uniforms Farming Defence Rural Areas

Author:Joe Slovo

“I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent, and this is what I have devoted my life to.”

Thinking Music Music Is Devoted Beautiful Life

Author:Luciano Pavarotti

“I think a little bit of competition is always good.”

Thinking Littles Bits Little Bit Competition

Author:Logan Henderson

“I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.”

Thinking Writing Littles Stories One Thing Fine Menace Circulation

Author:Raymond Carver

Source: Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories

“I think a loaded weapon aboard an airplane, whether its in the cargo section or in your overhead baggage, is a security issue.”

Thinking Issues Security Weapons Airplane Sections Loaded Baggage Overhead Cargo

Author:Janice Hahn

“I think a lot about Big Mind-Small Mind, expansive, wide-lens consciousness and contracted, introverted consciousness. I have moments-we all do-when just being alive is a pleasure and a miracle. They feel like moments when the shutters of the mind are open so I can look out. It also feels as if those same shutters have no hooks to fix them in an open position. One small wind and bang-they slam shut.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Mind Looks I Can Moments Bigs Pleasure Consciousness Alive Awareness Position Wind Miracle Wide Just Being Hook Lenses Bangs Slam Introverted Shutters Small Minds

Author:Sylvia Boorstein

Source: Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness

“I think a lot about control nowadays, and I really want to let go and just be more in the moment.”

Thinking Want Moments Letting Go

Author:Ryan McGinley

“I think a lot about how ideas spread, how information spreads, why is it that something youre really proud of and you spend a lot of time creating sometimes doesnt go anywhere, and something that you kind of do on the side, on a lark, ends up getting shared and passed around and having this big impact.”

Thinking Kind Ideas Ends Sometimes Bigs Sides Information Proud Creating Impact Spread Larks Big Impact

Author:Jonah Peretti

“I think a lot about killing myself, not like a point on a map but rather like a glowing exit sign at a show that’s never been quite bad enough to make me want to leave. See, when I’m up I don’t kill myself because, holy shit, there’s so much left to do. When I’m down I don’t kill myself because then the sadness would be over, and the sadness is my old paint under the new. The sadness is the house fire or the broken shoulder: I’d still be me without it but I’d be so boring.”

Sadness Depression Suicide

Author:Neil Hilborn

Source: The Future

“I think a lot about race and the burdens of representation. There's an idea that because I'm writing a book set around the time of the Great Migration, and happen to be black, I'm trying to write a definitive account of the Great Migration, the so-called "black experience." That's not what I'm doing, and it can be frustrating.”

Thinking Writing Trying Book Black Burden Representation Frustrating Writing A Book

Author:Ayana Mathis

“I think a lot about the editing of the films when we're making them, partly because I studied that, and partly because if you think about being in love while you're supposed to be acting in love, there's nowhere to go. You have to focus on something else and then do what's being asked, and you might get some semblance of something interesting.”

Ifs Thinking Might Film Interesting Acting Focus Supposed To Be Editing Being In Love Semblance Something Interesting Nowhere To Go

Author:Paul Schneider

“I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. And there is not much percentage in the future.”

Thinking Age Past Percentages Here And Now

Author:Rohinton Mistry

“I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself in your own scent. The issue is the same for all real poets. If you've been happy for too long, you become banal. By the same token, if you've been unhappy for a long time, you lose your poetic power...Happiness and poverty can only coexist for the briefest time. Afterword either happiness coarsens the poet or the poem is so true it destroys his happiness.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Long Real Matter Able Loses Poverty Issues Poet Pride Solitude Long Time Unhappy Poetic Scent Tokens Coexist

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“I think a lot about the word tenacity. What it takes to survive in a world that is sometimes beautiful and sometimes hostile. I’m always amazed at the body’s willingness to continue, to keep going. The heart that keeps pumping, the lungs that keep breathing, the way the will to live can outsmart those other dark voices inside.”

Life Beauty Perseverance Hostility Tenacity Will To Live

Author:Ada Limon

“I think a lot about what evidence, had it been measured or recorded or kept, would help my case. Not in a court of law, exactly, because there are many things that happen to us that are beyond the purview of even a perfectly executed legal system. But the court of other people, the court of the body, the court of queer history.”

Abuse Queer Interpersonal Violence Ipv

Author:Carmen Maria Machado

Source: In the Dream House

“I think a lot about writing and I try to read a lot. Being a musician, I don't take the words lightly; they are very, very important to me. At the same time, the words have to be musical and have to fit.”

Thinking Writing Trying Important Fit Musician Musical

Author:Steve Gunn

“I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.”

Thinking Audience Psychology Comedy Figures Experience Funny Things Ivory Stand Up Comedy

Author:Keenen Ivory Wayans

“I think a lot guys get laid pretending to be Shaggy 2 Dope because without his paint he's a lot more unrecognizable. He's not a gimpy gorilla like me.”

Thinking Guy Paint Like Me Pretending Dope Gorillas Getting Laid

Author:Joseph Bruce

“I think a lot it was the theology, that the road to Jerusalem runs through Baghdad, that somehow if we broke apart the rejectionist states, like Iraq, then the whole Middle East would reconfigure itself into a more favorable environment for democracy and Israel and us.”

Ifs Thinking States Whole Running Democracy Environment Middle Iraq Israel East Theology Broke Middle East Jerusalem Baghdad

Author:Chris Matthews

“I think a lot more people are able to take on a design challenge than ever before. And this was true 20 years ago when the desktop publishing revolution came about that allowed people with Macintosh's at home to produce professional-looking newsletters or publications for the first time. So, there's a long march toward more democratization for design.”

“I think a lot of ["Cosmopolitans"] is marked by [Jerome David] Salinger. Salinger wouldn't allow his works to be adapted for film after his experience with "Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut," and I think that's great for us because then we have to do our own Salinger stories.”

Thinking Stories Film Uncles Adapted Connecticut Salinger

Author:Whit Stillman

“I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father.”

Thinking Men Father Mines Outlook

Author:Saif Ali Khan

“I think a lot of acting is about the removal of self-consciousness. The actor is going to be in front of a lot of people, and will naturally feel self-conscious. So a lot of the preparation for that is the removal of that idea. Like you embody or are connected to this character, therefore you can present this character in a way that eventually, when you come back to see it, you feel not exactly ashamed of.”

People Thinking Character Acting Like You Preparation Ashamed Removal

Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor

“I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.”

Thinking Wells Play Actors Concerned

Author:Molly Parker

“I think a lot of actors need validation. If you see truly amazing actors perform, they expose themselves to such an incredible degree. You can really see their pain.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Pain Actors Degrees Incredibles Validation

Author:Alex Kingston

“I think a lot of actors take on fun roles and then they're lazy or flippant with them. I just can't do that.”

Thinking Actors Fun Roles Lazy Flippant

Author:Guy Pearce

“I think a lot of actors, comedians, musicians, artists are drawn to this world, because you're allowed to excavate whatever it is that you're struggling with, and hopefully turn it into art.”

Thinking World Art Artist Turns Actors Struggle This World Musician Hopefully Comedian

Author:Sandra Bullock

“I think a lot of actors, especially actors with a theater background, have a musical ear. A lot of actors just want to be musicians anyway, and a lot of musicians want to be actors.”

Thinking Want Actors Musician Ears Theater Musical Backgrounds

Author:Cedric Yarbrough

“I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you.”

Thinking Ends Kids Film Father Teach Effects Taught Hollywood Dresses Magazines African American Grants Cowboy Hollywood Films Old Hollywood

Author:Andre Benjamin

“I think a lot of America turned to art and culture after Sept. 11. I know the sales of bibles went shooting up, but so did the sales of poetry. I think in a crisis one looks to one's culture, partially to give validation to why one would want that culture to survive.”

Thinking Knows Want Giving Looks Art America Culture Crisis Shooting Validation Sept 11 Art And Culture Shooting Up

Author:Art Spiegelman

“I think a lot of American comedies tend to apologize for their bad behavior in the last 10 minutes of the movie.”

Thinking Lasts Comedy Minutes Behavior Apologizing Bad Behavior

Author:Todd Phillips

“I think a lot of American poets are swimming-pool Soviets. A lot of them have taken the comfortable, self-protective route too often. I know that I certainly have. That's easy to do.”

Thinking Knows Self Easy Taken Poet Comfortable Swimming Pool Routes Protective Swimming Pool

Author:Sam Hamill

“I think a lot of artists go waving their Grammies around thanking God for their Grammy, but when it comes to a pitch battle in the street for the honor of God, none of them is anywhere to be found.”

Thinking Artist Found Streets Honor Battle Thank God Grammy

Author:Sinead O'Connor

“I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in contemporary culture.”

Thinking Want Artist Culture Contemporary Narrative

Author:Rachel Cusk

“I think a lot of awesome stuff is coming out with smaller presses. Small presses don't have to have huge board meetings to talk about how to market their books or what to publish - they can take more chances. They can help new authors grow in a healthier, often more artistic way.”

Thinking Way Book Helping Grows Stuff Chance Huge Presses Meetings Artistic Boards Coming Out Publish Board Meetings

Author:Kevin Sampsell

“I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ. Therefore I shy away from church...”

Thinking Political Religion Names Christ Church Happened Shy Bad Things

Author:John Lennon

“I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.”

Thinking Band

Author:Alex Kapranos

“I think a lot of bands are influenced by religious symbolism and not even necessarily Christianity or Catholicism.”

Thinking Religious Christianity Band Catholicism Symbolism

Author:Chino Moreno

“I think a lot of becoming an entrepreneur is something which people have to learn just from getting out there and giving it a go, and having to learn the art of survival.”

People Thinking Giving Art Becoming Survival Entrepreneur

Author:Richard Branson

“I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.”

People Thinking Blue Related Collars Blue Collar

Author:Larry Bird

“I think a lot of business students chase money and then they burn out. They have early retirements, not because they want to retire and chill... But because they hate their job and they are miserable. I don't chase money.”

Thinking Want Jobs Hate Students Miserable Retirement Retiring Chill Burn Out

Author:Tyra Banks

“I think a lot of chefs can definitely think about great flavor combinations and stuff, but then they'll pass it along to their pastry chef to actually do it in the end. Pastries, you actually do using recipes, and it's got a little more of a science to it. It's something that a lot of times, chefs aren't really involved in coming up with throughout their career, so it makes it a little more challenging.”

Thinking Challenges Chef

Author:Stephanie Izard

“I think a lot of Civil War stuff is written - As they say, history is written by the victors. And one of the things that I think is fascinating about this from a purely dramatic perspective is whether someone is right or wrong, you understand where they're coming from in this.”

Thinking War Stuff Written Perspective Dramatic Civil War Fascinating

Author:Josh Radnor

“I think a lot of comedians sometimes pretend to find the job more taxing than it is.”

Thinking Sometimes Jobs Comedian

Author:Dani Levy

“I think a lot of comedic actors, on their close-up they can deliver. But when it comes to reacting to other people being funny, that's work in itself.”

People Thinking Comedic

Author:Ken Jeong

“I think a lot of concern of the people in the north is that one hears constant reports in talking to them is about militarisation and the presence of the army, the entry of the army into civic life, into the economy, the lack of a political settlement.”

People Thinking Political Talking Economy Concern Army Constant Reports Civics Entry Settlement

Author:Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu

“I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next.”

Thinking Inspirational Doe Happens Next Hot Ease Contemplation Tension Baths Bathtubs Hot Baths

Author:Sarah McLachlan

“I think a lot of creative people have no sense of numbers and economics.”

People Thinking Numbers Creative Economics Creative People

Author:Garry Marshall

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