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“I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.”

Thinking Art Artist Ego Sake Pretentious

Author:Lou Reed

“I think it's pretty classic if you look at the way entertainment reflects the country's status. There was a reason in the '50s when communism was bubbling that there were a million zombie movies. Because that is the direct allocation. So for the last two years we've been hearing, "Make America great again." People go, "Well, America was never great." What do you mean? What you mean is that they want to look back in history. And so I think it's only natural for entertainment to reflect that.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Want Years Wells Looks Mean Two Country Reason Lasts America Natural Millions Direct Entertainment Hearing Communism Classic Two Years Zombie Allocation Zombie Movie

Author:Adam Pally

“I think it's pretty clear that the internet as a whole has not had a strong notion of identity. And identity means, 'Who am I?' Fundamentally, what Facebook has done has built a way to figure out who people are...”

People Thinking Way Mean Done Whole Strong Clear Figures Identity Internet Built Notion

Author:Eric Schmidt

“I think it's pretty common for people to get excited when they meet somebody that they know from the media.”

People Thinking Knows Common Media Excited

Author:Julie Bowen

“I think it's pretty crazy to say you've been typecast at the age of 20 before you've even really started getting going.”

Thinking Age Crazy Age Of 20 Getting Going

Author:Tom Felton

“I think it's pretty dynamic. There's a lot of energy there and life, and you'll have women dressed in their traditional African dress when they come, and you have people from all over the place, and some people have headphones on because they're listening in Spanish.”

People Thinking Energy Listening Dresses Traditional Headphones

Author:Michael Emerson

“I think it's pretty obvious that women's stories are not necessarily being told in Hollywood and women are not necessarily being put in the leadership positions they deserve in mainstream film.”

Thinking Stories Film Position Deserve Hollywood Obvious Mainstream

Author:Diablo Cody

“I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system like Napster evolving into something that allows users to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files.”

People Thinking Different Media Type Obvious Data Evolve Users Files Audio Mp3 Napster

Author:Shawn Fanning

“I think it's probably a bad idea for young boys to see how they're being depicted in men's fantasies. It could get very dark. You could learn how to do things wrong.”

Thinking Men Ideas Young Dark Boys Fantasy Bad Ideas

Author:Amanda Seyfried

“I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.”

Thinking Capacity Madness Good Things Stable

Author:Wayne Coyne

“I think it's probably best to work out in the morning to get it out of the way. My ultimate top tip is to drag yourself, even if you have to roll yourself out of your bed and in to a sit-up - it's really not that bad once you start.”

Ifs Thinking Way Morning Bed Ultimate Work Out Drag

Author:Lily James

“I think it's probably better to make a region your own, and then maybe you can go somewhere else, but a lot of great writers have stuck to one region.”

Thinking Stuck Regions Somewhere Else Great Writers

Author:Tom Barbash

“I think it's probably true that creative people are touched by melancholy more than the average person, and to the extent that delving into that shadow world produces good work, I'm all for it. But I think you have to be able to step back from the work, and say, "Look how miserable I felt. Look how beautifully I wrote about it. Now I'm going to get an iced coffee and chat with a friend." Writing should be a way out of despair.”

“I think it's probably, musically, probably the most sophisticated. ("The Woman in White") There's a lot more daring harmony in it than in some of my pieces... If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to be successful with them, I think that's all you can ask, isn't it?... Sondheim is absolutely wonderful and Alan Jay Lerner was wonderful.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Has Beens Enough Asks White Successful Pieces Wonderful Lucky Harmony What You Want Being Successful Songwriting Daring Sophisticated Sondheim

Author:Andrew Lloyd Webber

“I think it's quite common and realistic. There are many stories like this [in Waitress]. [Jenna, my character] marriage looks really horrible up on the screen but I think there are a lot of people in bad relationships who wake up and think to themselves: "Wow, how did I end up here? Why am I still here and so unhappy and not satisfied with my life?"”

People Thinking Looks Stills Ends Character Stories Common Wake Up Screens Unhappy Satisfied Horrible Realistic Wow Waitress Bad Relationship

Author:Keri Russell

“I think it's quite difficult to understand what kind of life a writer leads. They might be millionaires, or they might be starving people.”

People Thinking Kind Might Difficult Starving Millionaire

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.”

People Ifs Thinking Two Age Names Wife Mets Extraordinary Casts Girlfriend Birthday 60th Birthday Beatty

Author:Colin Firth

“I think it's quite good to have an amount of unavailability.”

Thinking Amount

Author:Max Irons

“I think it's quite great to set yourself a big challenge and then you've got another reason for keeping fit.”

Thinking Reason Bigs Challenges Fit Big Challenges

Author:Richard Branson

“I think it's quite jarring and exciting when you see someone in the thrall of being completely transported by the music they're sharing with you.”

Thinking Exciting

Author:Justin Adams

“I think it's quite lucky that I lead this lifestyle, and in fact, my career's only gotten better as I've looked older, because it ages you, the uncertainty.”

Thinking Age Lucky Lifestyle Uncertainty

Author:Olivia Williams

“I think it's quite painfully obvious when someone's practicing through an amp, as opposed to someone who's really laying down some stuff that just happens to be fast.”

Thinking Happens Stuff Obvious Laying Down

Author:Joe

“I think it's radical to censor information because the government asks you to. That's radical.”

Thinking Government Asks Information Radical

Author:Laura Poitras

“I think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not what I want to do.”

Thinking Want Years Night Song Waste Singing Wasting Time Every Night

Author:David Bowie

“I think it's real easy to be famous these days; it's not real easy to sustain success.”

Thinking Real Success Easy These Days

Author:Jerry Jeff Walker

“I think it's real important that people understand where the music comes from. If you can see where the music comes from, you can also see the future. It gives you a trajectory.”

People Ifs Thinking Giving Important Real Trajectory

Author:Bob Weir

“I think it's real important to enjoy what you do, have fun with it and not to put the pressure on yourself of everyone watching.”

Thinking Important Real Fun Enjoy Pressure Having Fun Mma

Author:T.J. Dillashaw

“I think it's real important to show style now. The majority of style right now is to act like you don't have style at all, so most companies are getting rich off clothes that look torn, clothes that look worn.”

Thinking Looks Important Real Shows Company Rich Style Like You Right Now Clothes Majority Worn Torn Get Rich

Author:Andre Benjamin

“I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.”

Thinking World Humans Despair Species Practicals Realistic Having Hope Idealist Human Species

Author:Studs Terkel

“I think it's really boring, from the point of view of the novelist, to write about yourself. Tedious. But that's very hard to explain to people who really don't believe in the possibility of invention.”

People Thinking Writing Believe Hard Views Possibility Don't Believe Boring Point Of View Invention Novelists About Yourself Tedious

Author:Peter Carey

“I think it's really clear that Sony lost track of what customers and what developers wanted. I'd say, even at this late date, they should just cancel it and do a do over. Just say, 'This was a horrible disaster and we're sorry and we're going to stop selling this and stop trying to convince people to develop for it'.”

People Thinking Should Trying Wanted Lost Clear Late Sorry Track Customers Disaster Horrible Selling Convince Stop Trying Developers Sony

Author:Gabe Newell

“I think it's really cool that there are people like Adele on the cover of 'Vogue' and 'Rolling Stone,' and like I think it's really important that people are talking about your body, because if they don't, then you'll never be able to break that barrier.”

People Ifs Thinking Important Body Able Talking Break Stones Your Body Barriers Rolling Really Cool Rolling Stones Vogue

Author:Beth Ditto

“I think it's really cool that videogames are getting more and more sophisticated and believable, and that people who worked on movies are being asked to art direct and design video games and characters, so they look better and better. When I see Jurassic Park on the screen, I predicted that games would be able to create a virtual experience that was just as real as the movies - we're not quite there yet, but it's getting better all the time.”

People Thinking Art Real Character Design Direct Get Better Sophisticated Really Cool Videogame Jurassic Park

Author:Mark Walton

“I think it's really crucial to leave our American context, not only for a sense of individual freedom, but also to make links to international struggles for civil rights.”

Thinking Individual Struggle Civil Rights Individual Freedom

Author:Emily Raboteau

“I think it's really different for me whether I'm touring as part of a larger group or if I'm touring on my own. It's a completely different experience, because when I tour on my own, it's really just me by myself, and I make nice relationships with people.”

People Ifs Thinking Different My Own Nice Groups Touring Different Experiences

Author:Julia Kent

“I think it's really easy for people to point out hypocrisy in people's lives. It's like yeah, I get on planes a lot, and I drank from a plastic water bottle today - you know what I'm saying? A lot of people would just be like, "Oh, you're a hypocrite. You live in an ecovillage for a month, and then you fly around the world to talk about a movie." Don't think that I don't think about those things! Don't think that that's not, like, a quandary in my life. It can be a pretty intense ethical dilemma. I think it's about figuring out, you know, navigating life.”

People Thinking World Today Easy Water Intense Hypocrisy Ethical Hypocrite Drank Dilemma

Author:Ellen Page

“I think it's really finding that belief in yourself, where you just have it no matter what's going on, no matter what anyone else says. I think that's the challenge, is to really have that belief in yourself.”

Thinking Matter Belief Challenges Findings No Matter What Belief In Yourself

Author:Brandy Norwood

“I think it's really good and helpful to have the people you most admire in some other discipline than what you work in. It's too intimidating and derivative to be just totally gobsmacked by someone doing exactly the same thing as you are.”

People Thinking Discipline Admire Helpful Intimidating Derivatives

Author:Whit Stillman

“I think it's really good not to get published. It sounds crazy but it's true. People want to get published very soon, but the moment that happens, you lose a bit of your originality. Once you publish, you are always doing things made-to-order. You stop being a weaver and become a tailor. You are tailoring things to suit other people's fashion.”

People Thinking Want Made Moments Happens Order Bits Sound Loses Crazy Fashion Suits Originality Publish Tailors Weavers True People

Author:Sarnath Banerjee

“I think it's really good that you have great competition among news networks, and for that matter all the networks in general. It's bringing more and more people in to watching the news.”

People Thinking Matter News Competition

Author:Walter Isaacson

“I think it's really good to create pockets and events throughout the year that highlight certain things that are really popular on YouTube.”

Thinking Years Certain Events Pockets Youtube Highlights Really Popular

Author:Felicia Day

“I think it's really great that people share their work [on Myspace] and no one is paying for it. I think that's a very healthy thing and it's not a corporate thing.”

People Thinking Share Healthy Corporate Really Great

Author:Patti Smith

“I think it's really great to be able to stick with a character for a long period of time. It's not like you have one shot, and that's it.”

Thinking Long Character Able Like You Periods Shots Sticks Really Great Long Periods Of Time

Author:Christina Ricci

“I think it's really great when you stand up for something that you really believe, even if you get heat for it.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Heat Really Great

Author:Christina Aguilera

“I think it's really hard being in a boy band. There's a lot of dynamics.”

Thinking Hard Boys Band Dynamics Boy Bands

Author:Leona Lewis

“I think it's really hard to be joyful. I work hard at it. I always feel like it's a choice. You can be joyful or you can be depressed, and there just doesn't seem to be any future in depression.”

Thinking Choices Hard Work Joyful

Author:Barbara Hamby

“I think it's really hard to find a good women's magazine, and I like that Glamour is way more about what you want and not what your man wants. I don't really know what it's like to be a woman yet, so I wouldn't have too much insight, but I guess it would be a bit interesting to have more of that granny style in there. Because I think it should be easier for women to feel like they don't have to be conventionally attractive or think of flattering clothing before they think of fun clothing.”

Thinking Men Fun Interesting Style Insight Attractive Glamour Flattering Good Woman Granny

Author:Tavi Gevinson

“I think it's really hard to make songs that pursue an agenda. You can kind of do it a little bit through a character, so the character gives voice to something or their story, the story of the character tells you something, but, for me anyway, it's really hard to write directly about politics.”

Thinking Giving Writing Kind Littles Hard Character Stories Song Bits Voice Little Bit Pursue Agendas

Author:David Byrne

“I think it's really hard to plan if you don't believe you can implement those plans.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Hard Plans Don't Believe Believe You Can

Author:Assata Shakur

“I think it's really hard to say now what makes a show kind of sink or swim, and what creates longevity. For instance, I think that Survivor is a very well produced show. It's very simple, it's very elemental, and I think it gets into big issues. I think American Idol has been an amazing show for many, many seasons.”

Thinking Wells Kind Has Beens Hard Shows Bigs Simple Issues Seasons Instance Swim Survivor Idols Longevity Elementals American Idol Sink Or Swim

Author:Dan Cutforth

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