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“I think it's bad for human beings to be artists. It's awful. You want to do something but you're constantly trying to decide what you want to do. Let's just say it's no place like Hawaii.”

Thinking Trying Artist

Author:Urs Fischer

“I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.”

Thinking Writing Creative Roots Tension Spoil Discharge

Author:Norman Mailer

Source: Conversations with Norman Mailer

“I think it's bad when people start booing between serves.”

People Thinking Booing

Author:Serena Williams

“I think it's basically quite different from dreams. If only cinema was that easy. Because dreams, all you have to do is fall asleep, and you can have fantastic vision. I know Baudelaire and people like that enhance their dreams with opium or something. But films are very constructed - they're like architecture. They're pieced together, glued together. To me, it's a craft. It's like making a tapestry.”

People Thinking Different Dream Together Film Fall Easy Vision Architecture Fantastic Tapestry Opium Baudelaire

Author:Kenneth Anger

“I think it's basically the same game, although with a public figure like [Donald] Trump I think you are bound to consider the public persona rather than the private one. At least that was the case with that piece of writing.”

Thinking Writing Games Cases Pieces Figures Trump Bounds Persona Public Figures

Author:George Saunders

“I think it's beautiful to be able to cover yourself in metal. I love the color and the way it reflects. But it is also a protection.”

Thinking Way Able Beautiful Color Protection Metals

Author:Daphne Guinness

“I think it's beautiful to practice. I love to practice.”

Thinking Beautiful Practice

Author:Claudio Arrau

“I think it's because I'm real. Inside and outside of the ring, what you see is what you get. I'm CM Punk. I'm not trying to be something I'm not. I'm not trying to lie to the people or be fake. I'm not trying to be some crazy, outlandish character. I'm real and they appreciate that. Everything I say, it comes from the heart. It's all real.”

People Thinking Trying Heart Real Character Lying Crazy Appreciate Rings Fake Wwe Punk Outlandish Inside And Outside Cm Punk

Author:CM Punk

“I think it's because I'm unpredictable. I view every situation, every race, and every candidate differently I try not to rely on something that worked before.”

Thinking Trying Views Race Situation Rely Candidates Unpredictable

Author:Roger Ailes

“I think it's because if I have the time I take the time to sign every autograph I can after a show. I'll go out of my way when a lot of other guys wouldn't do this. Things like that create so much longevity in your career because that guy or girl you met that night will go home and talk about how cool Jeff Hardy was that night and then that makes their friends want to come out to the show next time you're in town.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want I Can Shows Home Night Guy Girl Next Careers Mets Towns My Way Longevity Next Time That Guy Other Guys Autographs Hardy

Author:Jeff Hardy

“I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding.”

Ifs Thinking Trying America Chance Failing Succeed England Packs Somewhere Else Try Again

Author:John Cleese

“I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn't necessarily reach the heart.”

Thinking Way Heart Stories Eye Black White Emotion Emotional Please Stronger Colour Black And White

Author:Kim Hunter

“I think it's because it's so different and it takes risks. Plus, it's really smart humor. It gives the audience credit in terms of not needing to tell them when to laugh. I love that about the show. There's no laugh track.”

Thinking Love Giving Different Shows Funny Term Audience Laughing Risk Smart Track Credit Plus Really Smart

Author:Sarah Chalke

“I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk.”

People Thinking Way Walks One Way

Author:Olympia Dukakis

“I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.”

Thinking Real Faces Comedy Your Face

Author:Wanda Sykes

“I think it's because Po [from Kung Fu Panda] is such a geek, and he is so relatable. He is so excited by life and is excited to learn new things. I think that accessibility is something that we all can relate to, there are so many things we wish we could do but don't have the means to achieve it.”

Thinking Mean Wish Achieve Excited Relate New Things Geek Relatable Accessibility Kung Fu Pandas Kung Fu Panda

Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson

“I think it's because we're looking for the meaning. Where is the meaning? We have mindless jobs, we take frantic vacations, deficit finance trips to the mall to buy more things that we think are going to fill these holes in our lives. Is it any wonder that we've lost our sense of direction?”

Thinking Jobs Life Is Lost Wonder Our Lives Meaningful Holes Finance Vacation Deficit Malls Mindless Frantic

Author:Matthew McConaughey

“I think it's because we're not purists, we're open to all kinds of music. We're not afraid to take chances and we work really hard, and we gig relentlessly, we've been very active in the studio, we're active with the record labels that we have. So I think it's like a full-on assault. We've stalled in many different directions and it kept us in the limelight for so many years.”

Thinking Years Kind Different Hard Chance Records Studios Active All Kinds Labels Not Afraid Assault Take A Chance Gigs Different Directions Record Labels Limelight

Author:Ali Shirazinia

“I think it's become an economic necessity for people to be able to learn and grow throughout their lives, because most people can't get through their entire career with one skill set. We have to keep reinventing ourselves.”

People Thinking Able Grows Careers Economic Skills Reinventing

Author:Chesley Sullenberger

“I think it's become fashionable for the snobbish egghead today to make fun of television. I've heard many people, boast, "I would never have a television set in my house," well, these people are fools.”

People Thinking Wells Today House Fun Heard Television Fool Boast Fashionable Snobbish Eggheads

Author:Bennett Cerf

“I think it's become much harder because I'm more afraid of every step I take. I'm more aware of its ramifications, I'm more aware of the less creative aspects of music - like the business-side of things for example.”

Thinking Sides Steps Creative Example Aspect Harder Every Step Ramifications

Author:Zach Condon

“I think it's become such a part of younger people's daily life to have the instant access to each other that it sometimes gets a little presumptuous. People feel like it's OK, for example, to email you with some weird personal criticism they have.”

People Thinking Feels Littles Sometimes Example Criticism Access Instant Daily Life Email Presumptuous

Author:Ted Leo

“I think it's becoming more commonplace, not just for sportsmen, but for all guys to take care of themselves. You can see in the marketplace that's the case as well, with more male products out there all the time.”

Thinking Wells Care Guy Cases Products Becoming Males Take Care Marketplace Commonplace Becoming More Sportsman

Author:Nick Youngquest

“I think it's becoming rarer and rarer when I consider the experiences that I've had in my life between my dad and my brother and all the men in my life who have all been gentlemen and have looked after women.”

Thinking Men He Man Brother Becoming Dad My Dad Gentleman My Brother

Author:Alex Pettyfer

“I think it's been a little difficult at times for the audience, because they've told me they see me as a family member. So to see your little sister sing about sex... I think they are pretty used to it now.”

Thinking Littles Used Sex Difficult Audience Members Family Members Little Sister

Author:Janet Jackson

“I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.”

People Thinking Hard Evil Differences Church Morning Islam Sunday Snakes Sunday Morning Islamists Going To Church Church On Sunday

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place.”

Ifs Thinking Conversation Handle Troops Topics Our Troops

Author:Holly Johnson

“I think it's been time for a new party. I think it's time for two new parties. If you watch the Democratic convention, that has become a socialist party now.”

Ifs Thinking Two Party Watches Democratic Conventions Socialist Socialist Party

Author:Glenn Beck

“I think it's been unfortunate, but it's happened, that since the Great Recession, the gains have all gone to the top. And we need to reverse that.”

Thinking Needs Gone Happened Gains Reverse Unfortunate Recessions Great Recession

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I think it's been, you know, kind of like a tragic play to this point. But at this point, I think it's clear, and will be clear to the majority of the Congress. I think it's clear to the American people that there is only one countervailing force to a world where financial institutions are trying to sell instruments every day and where credit has dried up, and that's the United States Treasury.”

“I think it's being thrown at the wolves, we call it in our business.”

Thinking Thrown

Author:Dick Van Dyke

“I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008.”

People Ifs Thinking Gone Issues Goes On Definitions Traditional California Amendments Ballots

Author:Michele Bachmann

“I think it's best to date someone who doesn't do what you do.”

Thinking

Author:Kirsten Dunst

“I think it's best to pick a biographical subject who lives to a ripe old age. Older people tend to relax and speak their minds. They're dropping some of the masks that they've been wearing. There's a candor.”

People Thinking Mind Age Speak Subjects Picks Old Age Relax Mask Dropping Ripe Candor Older People

Author:David McCullough

“I think it's better if blokes can admit that they can have crushes on other blokes. I've probably had crushes but never really sexual crushes on men.”

Ifs Thinking Men Crush Blokes

Author:Graham Coxon

“I think it's better if you write poems that look like you.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Looks Like You

Author:Richard Hugo

“I think it's better that life is kind of like a mystery, I think that's what drives us.”

Thinking Kind Life Is Mystery

Author:Ashley Greene

“I think it's better that people actually are saying what they feel. Especially, people are saying, I'm not heard. I don't have a voice in America.”

People Thinking Feels America Voice Heard

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there.”

Thinking Sports Lines Failing Training Prepared Glad Preparation Swimmer

Author:Ian Thorpe

“I think it's better to be a hair band than a bald band.”

Thinking Hair Band Hair Bands

Author:Warren DeMartini

“I think it's better to be a woman with some curves. It's more natural.”

Thinking Natural Curves

Author:Pierre Dukan

“I think it's better to be involved in one or two movies a year.”

Thinking Years Two Involved

Author:Eric Cantona

“I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!”

Thinking Way Has Beens Failing Succeed Fortunate Ambitious Mundane

Author:Francis Ford Coppola

“I think it's better to be too early and disturb a few people - but have other people say it was necessary - than to do it way after the fact. We shouldn't forget that Charlie Chaplin did a movie about Hitler while Hitler was alive, and Peter Sellers in Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece Dr. Strangelove was during the McCarthy time, where everybody was a communist and McCarthy was flipping completely out. I think it's important to have a movie like Postal now, where we are on the peak of the Iraq War, on the peak of terrorist attacks, where everything is actually happening.”

People Thinking Important War Forget Terrorist Communist Masterpiece Iraq War

Author:Uwe Boll

“I think it's better to feel good than to look good.”

Thinking Life Feels Looks Feel Good Good Life Optimistic Life

Author:Tom Hanks

“I think it's better to find somebody who's worse at everything than you. It just makes you constantly feel so good about yourself. And then, you can constantly talk about how good you are at everything, and how terrible they are at everything.”

Thinking Feels Terrible About Yourself

Author:Katherine Heigl

“I think it's better to have ideas.”

Thinking Ideas

Author:Chris Rock

“I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can't generate. Life becomes stagnant.”

Thinking Should Ideas Certain Belief Growth Limits Progressive Permit Dogma New Ideas Anchors Stagnant

Author:Kevin Smith

“I think it's better to have limits. My limits are different from other people's limits. I'm all for freedom, I'm all for people doing what they want. I'm also all for people shouldering the consequences of their behaviors, and not being assholes, and not lying unless they need to, and being honest except when you shouldn't, and being faithful except when it's okay to cheat. I guess I'm just a mass of contradictions.”

People Thinking Want Needs Different Lying Honest Limits Behavior Mass Consequence Okay Being Honest Faithful Contradiction Cheat Being Faithful

Author:Dan Savage

“I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak.”

Thinking Way Speak Personal Life

Author:Zooey Deschanel

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