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“I think of myself as a doom person. I'm a worrier. But I like the idea of being an optimist. Maybe I'm the kind of optimist who deep down knows it's not going to work.”

Thinking Knows Kind Persons Ideas Optimist Going To Work Doom Deep Down

Author:Owen Wilson

“I think of myself as a fairly attractive girl and always have, thanks to my mom. I was brought into this world thinking I was gorgeous because my mother was extremely devoted to this notion.”

Thinking World Mother Girl This World Mom Notion My Mom Thanks Attractive Devoted Gorgeous Attractive Girl

Author:Amy Schumer

“I think of myself as a fairly decent human being and it gives me great pain to be considered for all the mean S.O.B.s that come along. I've played bird decapitators, puppy stranglers, woman beaters, wife poisoners, child molesters - every goddamn thing you can think of. It was quite scene there for a while. But I think the image is changing...I hope to God the old image is fading from people's minds.”

People Thinking Giving Mind Humans Mean Children Pain Human Beings Wife Scene Bird Give Me Decent Puppy Fading Poisoners

Author:George C. Scott

“I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual," added Magnus. "Please never say those words in front of my parents," said Alec.”

Thinking Said Parent Fronts Please Bisexual Lost Souls City Of Lost Souls

Author:Cassandra Clare

Source: City of Lost Souls

“I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual,' - Magnus Bane”

Thinking Magnus Bane Bisexual Bane City Of Lost Souls

Author:Cassandra Clare

“I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual.”

Thinking Bisexual

Author:Magnus

“I think of myself as a funny guy but nobody thinks I'm funnier than my daughters.”

Thinking Mother Guy Daughter My Daughter Mother Daughter Funny Guy

Author:Jerry O'Connell

“I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.”

Thinking Girl Brooklyn

Author:Barbra Streisand

“I think of myself as a global citizen.”

Thinking Citizens Global Citizen

Author:Bill Gates

“I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.”

Thinking Way Writing Trying Humans Real Guy Human Beings Direct Meaningless Screenplays Real Human

Author:Charlie Kaufman

“I think of myself as a highly sexual creature.”

Thinking Creatures

Author:Charlize Theron

“I think of myself as a highly spiritual person, but without - I was never really given a religion or a religious experience or a community to sort of subscribe to.”

Thinking Persons Spiritual Given Community Religious Religious Experience

Author:James Taylor

“I think of myself as a human being first and foremost, and secondly as a person whose profession is acting. If people want to make that into something more or less, that's up to them.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Firsts Humans Persons Human Beings Acting Profession

Author:Rob Lowe

“I think of myself as a human being.”

Thinking Humans Human Beings Thoughtful

Author:Bruce Lee

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“I think of myself as a jazz player, and my music as a natural extension of the jazz tradition. What I'm doing is completely free improvisation ('composing in real time') with nothing predetermined. I've had a lot of experience playing many different kinds of music and several different instruments, and since I tend not to waste anything, it all shows up somewhere in the music I'm playing now.”

Thinking Kind Different Real Shows Natural Player Waste Tradition Instruments Jazz Different Kinds Extensions Improvisation Composing Predetermined Different Kinds Of Music

Author:Richard Grossman

“I think of myself as a journeyman actress. I will attempt almost anything that I think that I can bring off. It could be almost anything.”

Thinking I Can Actresses

Author:Angela Lansbury

“I think of myself as a kind of reporter; I report on the nature of certain events. I think of art as a report on civilization at a certain time.”

Thinking Kind Art Certain Events Civilization Reports Reporters

Author:Leon Golub

Source: Leon Golub: do paintings bite? : selected texts 1948-1996

“I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director.”

Thinking Kind Directors Meat Potatoes Meat And Potatoes

Author:Stanley Donen

“I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum I know I am a great mother.”

Thinking Knows Mother House Walks Morning Baby Sick Checks Mum Great Mother

Author:Kate Winslet

“I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.”

Thinking Imagine Musician Seeking Pursue Celebrity Status

Author:Natalie Merchant

“I think of myself as a narrative artist. I don't think of myself as a novelist or screenwriter or playwright. All of those modalities of processing and experiencing narrative are obviously very different, and I'm not sure that I prefer any one to the other. I think the novel gives you the opportunity to have a kind of interiority that you can't have in the theater, which is pure exteriority.”

Thinking Giving Kind Different Artist Opportunity Novel Not Sure Playwright

Author:Ayad Akhtar

“I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.”

Thinking Humans Happens Human Beings

Author:Laura Z. Hobson

“I think of myself as a political idiot. Idiot, in ancient Greece, denoted a common person without access to knowledge and information--all women, by definition, and most men. I am unable to make judgments. I see no options I can identify with. Is that normal?”

War Feminist Bombing Serbia Belgrade 90s

Author:Jasmina Tešanović

Source: The Diary of a Political Idiot: Normal Life in Belgrade

“I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested.”

Thinking Knows Agnostic

Author:Grace Slick

“I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.”

Thinking Want Helping Problem Directors Problem Solvers

Author:Michael Emerson

“I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.”

Thinking Trying Artist Producers Songwriters Publicists

Author:L.A. Reid

“I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.”

Thinking Creator Realistic Opera Soap Soap Operas Melodrama

Author:Joyce Maynard

“I think of myself as a really happy person.”

Thinking Persons Really Happy Happy Person

Author:David Guterson

“I think of myself as a reportage photographer. I like the word. It implies a personal account of an observed event with connotations of subjectivity but honesty. It is eye-witness photography.”

Thinking Eye Events Honesty Photography Accounts Photographer Witness Subjectivity Connotation

Author:David Hurn

“I think of myself as a serious artist. Sometimes you can get in your head too much about that and forget that you have to have fun. I've been guilty in my career about that at times. But the more I thought about it, the more I thought I didn't want anybody else to have a hit with it!”

Thinking Want Sometimes Artist Fun Forget Music Careers Too Much Serious Guilty Having Fun

Author:Tim McGraw

“I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.”

Thinking Writing Novel Serious Professors Weekend

Author:Umberto Eco

“I think of myself as a singer. The acting is just something I have to do between songs.”

Thinking Song Acting Singers

Author:Deanna Durbin

“I think of myself as a social scientist. In order to get hired and to get promoted, we're forced to declare a disciplinary and sub-disciplinary specialty, so I am a psychologist and I am a social psychologist within that. But I think the exciting thing is to think about the social sciences in general and the nature of society. It's one of the hardest things to think about, because our brains aren't designed to think about these emergent entities. We're not good at it.”

Thinking Brain Scientist Exciting Psychologist Social Science

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.”

Thinking Way Writing Book Stories Might Imagination Novelists Songwriters Weavers

Author:PJ Harvey

“I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.”

Thinking Storyteller

Author:Tanith Lee

“I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon.”

Thinking Writing Weight Obsessed Stylist

Author:Truman Capote

Source: Truman Capote: Conversations

“I think of myself as a theatre comic instead of club comic because I tend to talk for a bit before I start being funny. I don't really do the one-liners and five second bits or whatever. But it's good to work stuff out sometimes.”

Thinking Sometimes Stuff Bits Five Clubs Theatre Comic One Liner Being Funny

Author:Dylan Moran

“I think of myself as a very lazy author.”

Thinking Literature Lazy Laziness

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.”

People Thinking Lazy

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist”

Thinking Writing Happens Anthropologists

Author:Clifford Geertz

“I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.”

Thinking Book Stories My Own Creation Photographer Photograph Short Story Essays Best Place

Author:Sam Abell

“I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.”

Thinking Knows Stories Know How Comedy Humour Jokes

Author:Steven Moffat

“I think of myself as a young prince from a long line of royalty.”

Thinking Long Young Lines Royalty Long Lines

Author:Wesley Snipes

“I think of myself as an actor.”

Thinking Actors

Author:Oliver Platt

“I think of myself as an amateur filmmaker, not a professional, in the sense that "amateur" means love of something, for the form.”

Thinking Mean Form Filmmaker Mean Love

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.”

Thinking Bigs Goal Thinker Engineers Visionaries Lofty Lofty Goals

Author:Linus Torvalds

“I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.”

Thinking Persons Lucky Lucky Person

Author:Kate DiCamillo

“I think of myself as an entertainer: I'm a performing entertainer, I'm a stand-up comic. But there's an artist at work here, too. One who interprets his world through his own filter.”

Thinking World Artist Comic Performing Entertainers Filters

Author:George Carlin

“I think of myself as an experimentalist even though much of my music sounds logical and normal, in a sense.”

Thinking Sound Normal Logical

Author:Paul Lansky

“I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery.”

Thinking Long Discovery Voyages Explorers Voyages Of Discovery

Author:Paul Strand

Source: Paul Strand: the world on my doorstep : an intimate portrait

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