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“I think behind every great man there's got to be a great woman, whether she's your wife, your girlfriend or not. I'm not gonna say that there's not that special girl out there. But I'm in the music biz, and I'm focused on the music.”

Thinking Men Girl Behinds Wife Special Focused Girlfriend Great Men Great Women Your Girlfriend Behind Every Great Man

Author:Prince Royce

“I think Behind the Music is good for people like Leif Garrett and Motley Crue.”

People Thinking Behinds Music Is Motley Crue

Author:Ronnie Spector

“I think Beijing deserves the Olympics in order to be with all the rest of the world recognized.”

Thinking World Order Deserve Olympics Beijing

Author:Luciano Pavarotti

“I think being a Catholic made me a better person. It taught me how to choose good over evil, and how to be a more caring human being.”

Thinking Humans Persons Made Evil Human Beings Taught Catholic Caring Better Person Good Over Evil

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“I think being a competitive diver for years helps you focus and dedicate yourself to what's needed.”

Thinking Years Helping Focus Needed

Author:Jason Statham

“I think being a DJ is that thing of learning what makes a crowd move. As a DJ, you're constantly learning. It's like chess or something. After a couple of years, you think you're good, then you see a real DJ that's been doing it for 20 years and they just blow you away. I think that's one of the things I like about DJing: you can get better and better and better.”

Thinking Real Moving Couple Blow Chess Get Better

Author:Alexis Taylor

“I think being a doctor is really hard, and it's really this thankless, never-ending job. It's not even that you get done with a project. There are always sick people.”

People Thinking Hard Done Jobs Projects Doctors Sick Never Ending Thankless

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“I think being a foreigner and talking about Hollywood allowed me to use some cliches and some references that an American would maybe not use.”

Thinking Use Talking Hollywood Cliche Foreigners

Author:Michel Hazanavicius

“I think being a frontman is the greatest job and I get to do this every day.”

Thinking Jobs

Author:Mitch Lucker

“I think being a good Christian father, your responsibility varies with the age and the stage that your children are at.”

Thinking Children Age Christian Father Responsibility Stage Our Children Your Children Vary Good Christian Christian Father

Author:T. D. Jakes

“I think being a good parent means that every day is a different challenge. It's about mindfulness and trying to be present. I think life goes really quickly and it's very easy to be tuned out, and not be present. That is what I've learned in my parenting experience, and I continue to be mindful of it.”

Thinking Trying Mean Different Easy Parent Challenges Mindfulness Good Parent

Author:Matt Ross

“I think being a guest star on an ongoing TV show can be a nightmare, and I've done it a lot. You're walking into this family who's very comfortable where they are, and you have to jump on the train and be artificially comfortable. That's a very hard thing to do.”

Thinking Hard Done Shows Stars Tvs Walking Comfortable Train Things To Do Nightmare Guests Tv Shows Ongoing Hard Things Guest Stars

Author:Janel Moloney

“I think being a little nuts is helpful.”

Thinking Littles Helpful Nuts

Author:Carter Burwell

“I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.”

Thinking Littles Helping Mother Feet Dignity Parenthood Being A Mother Feet On The Ground

Author:Frances O'Grady

“I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.”

Thinking World Mother Being A Mother

Author:Nella Larsen

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“I think being a movie star is about whether an audience can watch you and care about you.”

Thinking Care Stars Watches Audience Movie Star

Author:Tom Sizemore

“I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.”

Thinking Sometimes Parent Love Is Knowing Listening Discipline Being A Parent How To Love Sometimes Love

Author:Melissa Etheridge

“I think being a poet, period, is isolating.”

Thinking Poet Periods

Author:Victoria Chang

“I think being a producer makes you a problem solver, so you kind of go, "Well there's a problem. What do we do? How do we solve it?"”

Thinking Wells Kind Problem Solve Producers Problem Solvers

Author:Laura Ziskin

“I think being a singer-songwriter... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves.”

People Thinking Stories Jobs Singers Songwriters Singer Songwriters

Author:Gabrielle Aplin

“I think being a singer-songwriter... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves. And I really hope that people kinda go: "This happened once and I kind of like this song because I relate to it..." So if at least one of my songs over this tour's that song, then that's really cool.”

People Ifs Thinking Kind Stories Jobs Song Happened Singers Relate Songwriters Really Cool Singer Songwriters

Author:Gabrielle Aplin

“I think being a teenager is such a compelling time period in your life--it gives you some of your worst scars and some of your most exhilarating moments. It's a fascinating place; old enough to feel truly adult, old enough to make decisions that affect the rest of your life, old enough to fall in love, yet, at the same time too young (in most cases) to be free to make a lot of those decisions without someone else's approval.”

“I think being a Texan - we sort of have that extra fire in us as a breed. I just felt like from day one I had something to say and I wanted to make sure people heard me, and it's worked.”

People Thinking Wanted Felt Fire Heard Extras Texan

Author:Miranda Lambert

“I think being a woman alone enhanced the impulse in others to be generous. What we're told is that to be a woman alone is to be in a dangerous situation. The message is that people are gong to prey on you and do bad things to you. That may be true in some cases, but what I experienced was the other case.”

People Thinking May Situation Cases Dangerous Messages Being True Impulse Generous Bad Things Prey Being A Woman Gongs Dangerous Situations

Author:Cheryl Strayed

“I think being a woman in any business that's dominated by men, you have your garden variety pros and cons, where you learn how to focus and harness your various powers and weaknesses for better or for good.”

Thinking Men Focus Weakness Garden Various Variety Being A Woman Harness Pros And Cons

Author:Amanda Palmer

“I think being a woman in Hollywood is a big enough challenge. It really is. I don't want to be one of those people who complain. But the lack of roles out there - it's unbelievable.”

People Thinking Want Enough Bigs Challenges Roles Hollywood Complaining Unbelievable Being A Woman

Author:Eva Mendes

“I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.”

Women Feminism Ireland Irish

Author:Iris Murdoch

“I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.”

Thinking Important Reality Literature Women Nice Ireland Being Nice Being A Woman Second Place Being Irish Ireland And The Irish Irish Writers Funny Irish

Author:Iris Murdoch

“I think being a writer was a crappy job when you just had typewriters. It was crappy when we just had ink and paper. And it's sort of crappy now. It's always just you and the page. That doesn't change.”

Thinking Jobs Paper Pages Ink Typewriters Ink And Paper

Author:Colson Whitehead

“I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.”

Thinking Important Age Able Talent Late Aging Birthday Too Late 50th Birthday

Author:Clint Eastwood

“I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. The horse is out of the barn... In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.”

People Thinking Trying Important Play Age Able Past Generations Talent Late Horse Tricks Too Late Barns Past Generations

Author:Clint Eastwood

“I think being able to be malleable is a great weapon and I'm a very, very good strategist. I create the most amazing strategies in my head and I have created the most extraordinary strategies in my head for my career.”

Thinking Able Careers Weapons Strategy Extraordinary Very Good Most Amazing Strategist

Author:Salma Hayek

“I think being able to have follow-through, I think a lot of people who are in charge, that is the one quality that you can't forsake. You can get opinions, but you can't have too many cooks in the kitchen when you're envisioning something.”

People Thinking Able Quality Opinion Cooks Kitchen Forsake Follow Through Envisioning Cooks In The Kitchen

Author:Chelsea Handler

“I think being able to identify with young people and...their capacity to change the world and shake things up. I think that's the greatest strength.”

People Thinking World Able Young Capacity Changing The World Shakes

Author:Nate Powell

“I think being able to really fall in love with someone is the craziest thing that could ever happen. You know, allowing yourself to really go there and really feel those things is extremely scary.”

Thinking Knows Feels Happens Able Fall Falling In Love Scary Allowing Craziest

Author:Zoey Deutch

“I think being able to sit in the shoes of a woman and being able to manage products that are mostly sold to women, alongside a lot of female employees, is really helpful because you hold that empathy to the situation. You can understand where the customer is coming from.”

Thinking Situation Empathy Female Manage Employee Helpful

Author:Maureen Chiquet

“I think being able to speak different languages, and being able to act in those languages is something that's really very rewarding.”

Thinking Different Speak Language

Author:Mido Hamada

“I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you write as an artist you have to clean the palate of your own politics in creating characters and activism is kind of the exact opposite.”

Thinking Writing Kind Character Artist Interesting Creating Opposites Clean Activism Contradiction Activist Odds Palate Creating Characters

Author:Eve Ensler

“I think being an actor in general is acknowledging that we are constantly playing different roles, that we have all these different parts of ourselves and instead of pretending that you are just one thing, as an actor you get to admit that you've got all this stuff going on.”

Thinking Different Actors Stuff Roles One Thing Just One Pretending

Author:David Hyde Pierce

“I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything”

Thinking Way Facts Talent Actresses Untalented

Author:Isabelle Huppert

“I think being an artist and taking on those challenges is just how it is for me. Because I was always a foreigner, I was always the outsider.”

Thinking Artist Challenges Outsiders Foreigners Being An Artist

Author:Tavares Strachan

“I think being an artist is having the courage to be original. Many great artists, including Picasso, have all been influenced by the great master paintings... And then finally, they leap, they take off... they become themselves. Then it looks like they just came out of nowhere. Just like 'Pow!'”

Thinking Looks Artist Painting Masters Originals Including Leap Great Art Great Artist Being An Artist Pow

Author:James Rosenquist

“I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.”

Thinking Age Artist Education Creative Just Being Be Creative Imaginative Being An Artist

Author:William T. Wiley

“I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.”

Thinking Atheist

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“I think being an athlete prepares you for more things than people give us credit for.”

People Thinking Giving Athlete Credit

Author:Eric Shanteau

“I think being an editor really helped me take other people's notes on my writing. I'd get a note like 'It's too wet' or 'The first couple chapters are good, but then the rest of the pages were so wet that they were completely illegible' or 'Did you dip this in Sprite? This smells like Sprite. Why would you dip your novel in Sprite?' And instead of pushing back, I'd listen. That's an incredibly important skill for a young writer to have.”

People Thinking Writing Firsts Important Young Novel Couple Skills Pages Notes Smell Pushing Editors Wet Chapters Dip Young Writers Pushing Back

Author:Toni Morrison

“I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs.”

Thinking Needs Firsts Husband Partners Your Husband First Lady

Author:Elizabeth Edwards

“I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do.”

Thinking Writing Children Made Book Self My Own Company Solitude Degrees Glad Self Reliance Reliance Conditioning Writing A Book Only Child

Author:Alan Hollinghurst

“I think being an outcast is what sort of strengthens the nerd movement, because you're isolated, so you have time.”

Thinking Movement Isolated Nerd Outcast

Author:Chris Hardwick

“I think being an outsider in general always helps you in comedy. I think it helps to have an outsider's eye. And so I have an outsider's voice. You know, as soon as I start talking, I don't belong here. And I think that helps in a way.”

Thinking Knows Way Helping Eye Voice Talking Comedy Outsiders

Author:John Oliver

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