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“I've never discovered the idea for my next novel while I was still working on the current novel. Other writers don't suffer this.”

Stills Ideas Suffering Next Novel Currents

Author:James Thayer

“It's very easy to not know the stuff that you should know about the patient when you're seeing them. It's much easier with an electronic system to find them, because it's all right there and it should be current.”

Knows Should Easy Stuff Seeing Easier Patient Currents

Author:William Davis

“I can't actually explain why my lines got shorter, but they did. Just as I can't explain why my early poems were 'all image' and my current ones are relatively abstract. The sense of the line changed with the theme, somehow my ear (or brain or heart/mind) fell in love with a short line and very very simple words.”

Mind Heart I Can Lines Simple Brain Changed Ears Currents Abstract Theme Simple Words

Author:Gregory Orr

“One of the more problematic aspects of the current state of cinema in Japan is that the movies playing in the theaters are by and large made not by film studios but by broadcasting companies. They're either extensions of popular television dramas or adaptations of manga or anime. Younger Japanese are simply not being exposed to good films. That situation needs to change.”

“My career goals generally remain the same, but my short time goals constantly change either because I've reached them all or they no longer fit into my current strategy.”

Goal Careers Fit Strategy Currents Short Time Career Goals

Author:Benjamin Stone

“Natural gas is a very flexible source of energy that can help us bridge the gap between our current high-carbon economy and our zero-carbon future.”

Helping Energy Natural Economy Source Currents Bridges Gas Gaps Zero Carbon Flexible Natural Gas

Author:Katharine Hayhoe

“My current goal is to change the way we think about antitrust and anti-monopoly.”

Thinking Way Goal Currents Monopoly Antitrust

Author:Zephyr Teachout

“Sometimes you come to a fall and sometimes you come to white water. Your rowing has to adapt to the situation. You can't do the same stroke coming down a small stream as you would coming down Niagara Falls. Even if you're only rowing down a stream, different things happen: maybe the wind changes, maybe the current, and suddenly everything's different. So gently is really important. Don't power yourself or blast through; rock with the way things are.”

Ifs Way Important Different Sometimes Happens Fall Water White Situation Rocks Wind Currents Things Happen Streams Different Things Strokes Blast Rowing Niagara Niagara Falls White Water

Author:Bernie Glassman

“Our focus is not on current politics, but students seem to be naturally drawn to this topic. This is understandable, when the U.S. is constantly trying to terrorize the nation with threats of war, students obviously take notice.”

Trying War Seems Nations Focus Students Threat Currents Topics

Author:Mohammad Marandi

“But how can you understand a war without any knowledge of the society where it happens? It's like trying to understand birth without knowing anything about pregnancy or conception. Or like trying to understand our current economic collapse without knowing what a derivative is.”

Trying War Happens Knowing Economic Birth Currents Pregnancy Conception Collapse Derivatives Economic Collapse

Author:Annia Ciezadlo

“It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.”

Writing Hard Situation Currents

Author:Rachel Zucker

“I think that's the beauty of the current setup, is that Legends is meant to be a bit of a revolving door.”

Thinking Bits Doors Currents Meant To Be Legends Revolving Setups Revolving Doors

Author:Wentworth Miller

“With enough money and international coordination, we can push incoming asteroids out of Earth's path. We might even be able to bring back extinct animals in the lab. The problem really isn't scientific - it's cultural. We aren't yet able to coordinate ourselves as a global civilization to do something simple like bring food to a famine-stricken region. We can actually use current satellite technologies to predict where famine will strike next, but we can't get food there - usually for political reasons.”

“Ultimately, the current argument is "not having net neutrality will hurt innovation," and you can make that argument, but I would rather make the public good argument, which is not just about innovation or nurturing new companies that will add to the nation's GDP, it's actually about creating a democratic public sphere.”

Nations Hurt Company Creating Argument Innovation Add Democratic Currents Spheres Nurturing Neutrality Gdp Public Good Net Neutrality New Company

Author:Astra Taylor

“I always think, OK, this is good, but I'll do it better next time. "And so we beat on, boats against the current. . ." It may not be the recipe for a life of contentment, but that imperfectability is what makes writing such an engaging endeavor, something you can do for the rest of your life and not get bored.”

Thinking Writing May Next Can Do Beats Currents Boat Bored Contentment Endeavor Next Time Engaging Recipes Rest Of Your Life

Author:Debra Dean

“People get bored of hearing the same genre of music over and over again. Observe the current musical landscape and predict what "mood" people will be in next. Ask yourself what would be the most natural transition or reaction to the current genre. Then create it!”

People Would Be Next Asks Natural Musical Currents Hearing Mood Reactions Landscape Bored Genre Transition Genres Of Music

Author:Wendy Starland

“We need to finally be proactive in enlightening people from Islamic cultural groups. And this applies to immigrants already here as well as to current refugees. The German constitution stands above the Sharia. Schools need to offer classes on gender equality. You also have to offer an alternative to young men with a penchant for violence.”

“The idea wasn't to make a direct political statement since the current economic collapse hadn't begun when we started on the book. The parallels I'm most interested in are the ways that human nature never changes, no matter how far back in time you look.”

Way Humans Looks Book Ideas Matter Political Economic Human Nature Direct Currents Statements Collapse Parallels Never Change Back In Time Economic Collapse

Author:James Vance

“Time has a certain current to it, and it wants to flow in a certain direction.”

Want Certain Flow Currents

Author:Marc Guggenheim

“In the current febrile climate Isis needs Donald Trump and Donald Trump needs Isis.”

Needs Trump Climate Currents Isis

Author:Jack Dromey

“I think that it's an arguable position, whether with Hamas and ISIS around, whether there should be a Palestinian state, but it's a defensible position, given the current circumstances.”

Thinking Should States Given Position Circumstances Currents Palestinian Isis Hamas

Author:David Brooks

“Yoko Ono is someone who's music I've discovered more recently. The current cd rereleases of her albums all had bonus tracks recorded just with a tape recorder and I'm really into these at the moment because they have a great intimate feel.”

Feels Moments Track Currents Albums Intimate Tape Cds Bonus Recorders

Author:Marcel Dzama

“I want to always do things that are very current and pushing the boundaries of the way we create art.”

Way Want Art Currents Boundaries Pushing

Author:Kesh

“Don't tell me I have latent sexism or racism that I need to confront. I don't believe that. I think we are so burned by the current situation that we want somebody that it isn't possible to have. We want someone who definitely looks like the messiah.”

Thinking Want Needs Believe Looks Situation Racism Don't Believe Currents Sexism Burned Messiah Latent Current Situation

Author:Sara Paretsky

“Air pollution is my biggest concern right now. Maybe because I live in Beijing, and in this city we have such severe challenges due to bad air quality. It has affected our daily lives and health. I do not go outdoors because of it. I desperately hope that we can improve the current situation.”

Challenges Cities Quality Situation Air Right Now Concern Currents Dues Daily Life Affected Pollution Severe Beijing Air Pollution Current Situation Air Quality

Author:Li Bingbing

“My next door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration.”

Two Jobs Next Doors Dog Ready Currents Neighbor Administration Shovels Two Dogs Next Door Neighbors

Author:Gary Johnson

“I like [that] there's a certain inherent drama to those jobs that is exciting to tell stories about and it's still real life. I'm a little less interested in the current fad of being obsessed with superheroes and things that are so out of the box.”

Littles Stills Real Stories Jobs Certain Drama Exciting Currents Boxes Real Life Obsessed Inherent Superhero Fads

Author:Ethan Hawke

“Our clients wanted the restaurant experience, not their mother's buffet dinner - so we reached out to that world and hired a series of restaurant chefs: Robb Garceau from Jean Georges, Cornelius Gallagher from Oceana. Cornelius completely revolutionized our menu; he did a stint at El Bulli, and one of the techniques he brought back was sous-vide cooking. Our current chef, Patrick Phelan, continues to grow the vision.”

World Wanted Mother Grows Vision Cooking Series Currents Dinner Technique Restaurants Clients Chef Buffets Menus Gallagher

Author:David Castle

“Using references of current technology, Martin Luther King Jr. could mentally cut and paste better than any individual I have ever known.”

Individual Known Technology Cutting Kings Currents Luther

Author:Clarence Benjamin Jones

“Some people just think utopians are idiots who are imagining rivers of candy and not really engaging with the world's ills, and sometimes that's surely the case, but I think that imagining the perfected society is a way of expressing your disgust with the current state of affairs.”

People Thinking World Way Sometimes States Cases Rivers Affair Currents Idiot Disgusting Engaging Candy

Author:Christine Jennings

“I'm very proud and grateful to have the support of so many elected Vermonters and former officials. Two former governors, the current governor, the current other senator. I really appreciate that.And I think it's because they've worked with me, they've seen what I do. They know what kind of a colleague I am. They want me as their partner in the White House. And that's exactly what I will do.”

Thinking Knows Want Kind Two House White Support Proud Appreciate Grateful Currents Partners Former Officials White House Want Me Governors Senators Colleagues

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I'm fascinated about how past events shape our perception of current events and how they make us the people we are.”

People Past Events Shapes Perception Currents Fascinated Current Events Past Events

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“If you were feeling sad right now and you recall a sad - or, a very happy memory from the past, it will be tinged with more sadness based on your current feeling. So we felt like that was actually on solid scientific ground .”

Ifs Feelings Past Felt Memories Sadness Right Now Currents Recalls Very Happy Feeling Sad Happy Memories

Author:Pete Docter

“Environmental science is telling us a lot about our future and what it could look like, whether we're talking about global warming (the current poster child for the environment) or a loss of genetic diversity in our food supplies, or the effects of low-dose chemicals on human development.”

“I say that there is nothing deficient about our current theoretical grasp of mind-brain identities. The problem is only that they are counter-intuitive.”

Mind Problem Brain Identity Currents Intuitive Theoretical

Author:David Papineau

“Jeb Bush is conservative governor,his record as governor is more conservative than any current republican governor in the country.”

Country Records Republican Conservative Currents Governors

Author:Chuck Todd

“I just remember lot of men running around in little tiny gold shorts! The format - it was kind of hard. You really have to know about pop culture and I'm not really knowledgeable about a lot of those things. I know what I like. They'd ask about Gwyneth Paltrow, and I don't know anything about her, except her mother. I know who her mother is. So you really have to be current and relevant.”

Knows Men Kind Littles Hard Running Remember Mother Culture Asks Gold Currents Pops Tiny Relevant Pop Culture Format Knowledgeable Shorts

Author:Jackee Harry

“There's something really interesting about current urbanism: the only model is the universal model, and there is increasingly incapacity to consider the virtues and the qualities that are there, and then to build on them. The only thing is complete transformation.”

Interesting Quality Virtue Models Universal Transformation Currents Really Interesting Incapacity

Author:Rem Koolhaas

“The specific question was visa overstays.Current federal law requires a biometric exit-entry system when you come in on a visa. And the [Barack] Obama administration is just ignoring federal law. Forty percent of illegal immigration is not people who cross the borders illegally. It's people who come legally on a visa and never leave.”

People Law Percent Crosses Currents Immigration Administration Barack Borders Forty Illegal Exit Entry Illegal Immigration Visa Biometrics

Author:Ted Cruz

“Witness Donald Trump's current presidential campaign. So first people need to find the white spaces, the unexploited or underexploited niches where there is less competition and more opportunity.”

People Needs Firsts Opportunity Space White Trump Competition Currents Campaigns Witness Presidential Niche Presidential Campaign White Space

Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer

“We are creating the future. It is not determined. If we get our act together and solve our current problems, we could have a sustainable, abundant future. If we don't, we could wipe ourselves out. We are on the verge of doing it with our current politics. It is regressive, going back the other way.”

Ifs Way Problem Together Creating Currents Solve Determined Wipe Verge Creating The Future

Author:Edgar Mitchell

“My ideal of conversation that includes wide representation of perspectives, informed by the consensus view of current experts, pursued with an attempt to find a position with which all can live, brings the expert and the public dimensions together.”

Together Views Position Perspective Conversation Ideals Currents Wide Experts Dimensions Representation Consensus Pursued

Author:Philip Kitcher

“In my current work on global warming, I argue that the only apparent solution to the deep problem of climate change would require very large transfers of wealth from rich nations to poor nations, so that the entire world can make the transition to renewable forms of energy as fast as possible.”

World Problem Form Energy Nations Wealth Poor Rich Solutions Climate Climate Change Currents Arguing Global Warming Transition Transfers Poor Nations

Author:Philip Kitcher

“Current education in science treats all students as if they were going to have scientific careers. They are required to solve problems and memorize lists. For many of them, this kills interest very quickly.”

Ifs Problem Interest Careers Students Treats Currents Solve Lists

Author:Philip Kitcher

“Social mobility decreased under Labour and under the current government it is reversing. The differences between the poorest and richest are returning to Victorian levels. We don't have open sewers and infant mortality rates at fifty percent but in economic terms we're getting to a level of disparity we haven't seen for a couple of hundred years. And we're getting there very quickly.”

“The idea of the archetypal nerd is totally blurred these days. So many people of this current generation have grown up with technology and video games. It's just a part of the world now, a part of our shared culture.”

People World Ideas Culture Games Technology Generations Currents Video These Days Nerd Current Generation

Author:Chris Hardwick

“I don't like catchphrases either. A current one would be, "Bye, Felicia." It's used so much that we don't even know the origin anymore.”

Knows Would Be Used Currents Bye

Author:Margaret Cho

“Well, Lula has an incredible amount of sway still. He's someone who came up from very humble origins, so his life trajectory is something that many people in Brazil still identify with. So within the governing Workers' Party, he has a lot of power. He has power to name ministers, some people say. And he's very close with the current president as well. She's his handpicked successor.”

People Wells Stills Names President Party Amount Workers Incredibles Currents Humble Ministers Governing Brazil Successors Trajectory

Author:Simon Romero

“As soon as that little "ba-da-da-dink-dink" at the beginning of "Under the Sea" starts I think to myself: "Here we go! Let's do it!" When I first got the role, I was very intimidated because people have high expectations. But I have nothing to prove only to share. I'll do my best interpretation of what these songs should sound like in their current incarnations and it's quite an honor.”

People Thinking Should Firsts Littles Song Sound Roles Sea Share Honor Prove Expectations Currents Interpretation Incarnation Intimidated High Expectations

Author:Tituss Burgess

“I desperately want children. I want like four of them. But I will never have them, I mean at least with the current circumstances, living with my boyfriend.”

Want Mean Children Four Circumstances Currents My Boyfriend

Author:Owen Pallett

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