“I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don't think it was decided at that meeting. The trouble is, as soon as you've chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of. It's like going to a place that you've never been to before - you've got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.” ThinkingIdeasPlayRealityMightTroubleDecidedMeetingsNotionChosenNo Idea Author:Alan Bennett
“You're always in a tunnel that you can't see the end of. But there's something that took place on this movie that I don't think we expected and that was that once we decided that the entire cast would be real retired opera singers and retired musicians... and these people the phone hadn't rung for them for 20 or 40 years even though they can deliver.” PeopleThinkingYearsRealEndsWould BeMusicianDecidedCastsPhonesExpectedSingersOperaBeing RealRetiredTunnelsOpera Singers Author:Dustin Hoffman
“I have a great respect for actors like Clint Eastwood, who's a wonderful director. I think two pictures that I directed were not successful, so I decided not to make any more.” ThinkingTwoActorsSuccessfulWonderfulDirectorsDecidedGreat Respect Author:Kirk Douglas
“Sometimes I think the Congress feels that if you only decided tomorrow to switch to wind power that in two years we'd be getting 80 percent of our electricity from wind power. It's nonsense. Normally it takes 20 to 30 years after a new technology is demonstrated and deployed before it powers even 15 or 20 percent of the grid. There's this long lag time, and we haven't even decided which directions to go.” IfsThinkingFeelsYearsLongTwoSometimesTechnologyHavensWindTomorrowPercentDecidedCongressNonsenseTwo YearsElectricityNew TechnologyGridsLagWind Power Author:Paul R. Ehrlich
“I don't want to fail, of course. But even though I didn't know how bad things really were, I still had a lot to think about before I said yes. I had to consider the implications for Pixar, for my family, for my reputation. I decided that I didn't really care, because this is what I want to do. If I try my best and fail, well, I've tried my best.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantTryingWellsSaidStillsCareCoursesKnow HowFailingMy FamilyDecidedReputationBad ThingsImplicationsPixar Author:Steve Jobs
“The idea of creating a national bank I do not concur in, because it seems now decided that Congress has not that power (although I sincerely wish they had it exclusively), and because I think there is already a vast redundancy rather than a scarcity of paper medium.” ThinkingIdeasSeemsWishPaperCreatingDecidedCongressMediumsSincerelyScarcityRedundancyConcur Book:The Real Thomas Jefferson Source: The Real Thomas Jefferson
“You'll still work with some directors where that doesn't happen, and sometimes it's out of necessity because you're in a really complicated, choreographed fight scene and the whole thing is being prevised in a computer, so it's been decided months before, but I think that's sneaking into the way action scenes are shot.” ThinkingWayStillsSometimesWholeHappensActionFightingMonthsSceneDirectorsComputerShotsDecidedComplicated Author:Paul Bettany
“As a professional athlete and someone who has spent almost his entire life in boxing, not a day goes by when I don't think about coming back, but I am retired, and after speaking to my family and following a great deal of introspection, I have decided to stay retired.” ThinkingLifeDealsMy FamilyDecidedAthleteFollowingBoxingIntrospectionComing BackRetiredProfessional Athlete Author:Oscar De La Hoya
“Everywhere I go the coaches all tell me that Scholsey is the player they admire. But if they think they'll get him they're wasting their time! Paul is a Manc lad pure and simple. He loves the club and there's no chance of him leaving here. If ever he decided to go there would be a stampede, but he won't be going, he's here for life.” IfsThinkingWould BeChanceSimplePlayerPureDecidedLeavingClubsCoachesAdmireLadScholesStampede Author:Alex Ferguson
“Yeah, once we decided to use that replacement animation, and the seams are a function of that animation, and other movies paint those out, we decided we wanted to keep the presence of the animation and the type of animation that it was rather than make it look polished. It created a kind of vulnerability, I think.” ThinkingLooksKindUseWantedTypeDecidedFunctionYeahPaintVulnerabilityAnimationPolishedReplacements Author:Charlie Kaufman
“We don't have the Democrats doing a Fox News debate. They have decided they want to boycott Fox News, at least this election cycle. I don't see Hillary and Bernie Sanders doing a Fox News debate. And they should. We have great journalists on this network. I'm an opinion person. It wouldn't be me - that I think would do a great job. But if they're not going to put themselves in an environment like this, do you have to now reconsider, in other words, going forward, that maybe these liberal networks don't deserve the access to these candidates?” IfsThinkingWantShouldPersonsJobsOpinionEnvironmentNewsDeserveDecidedElectionClintonDemocratAccessDebateJournalistCandidatesCyclesFoxesGreat JobFox NewsBoycott Author:Sean Hannity
“Glee is only one example - there are a lot of shows, adult shows online. I just don't understand why we've decided that we want to throw everything we can out there on the Internet, I don't know how it helps us. I think being exclusive, that you can only see something on CBS, you can only see something on ABC, is a good thing.” ThinkingKnowsWantHelpingShowsKnow HowExampleInternetAdultsDecidedGood ThingsOnlineExclusiveGlee Author:Edward Allen Bernero
“When I decided to take on acting as a career and a profession, I didn't know much about it. I knew that I was passionate about it. There was nothing else I could think of that I wanted to do and that's when I knew it was the right choice. It was also one of the scariest moments of my life.” ThinkingKnowsMomentsWantedChoicesActingCareersDecidedPassionateProfessionRight Choices Author:Drew Waters
“I have to perfect my beard every morning and it takes a long time. I think a lot of musicians are into graphic design and art. I decided to be a little bit of an artist on my face.” ThinkingLittlesLongArtFacesArtistBitsPerfectMorningDesignLittle BitMusicianLong TimeDecidedEvery MorningBeardGraphicGraphic DesignDesign And Art Author:Craig David
“Well, I think that's been my career. I always choose stuff that's the same, yet different. These projects just happened. I didn't plan it out that way. I just happened to be free, and the director, Dan Pritzker, decided to do his film again. I say again because we did it seven years ago. A lot of the actors were not available, so he just couldn't wait anymore and he recast everything. Me and two other characters are the only people involved with the new one, who were involved with the previous one.” PeopleThinkingWayYearsWellsTwoDifferentCharacterFilmActorsStuffWaitingCareersPlansHappenedInvolvedDirectorsProjectsYears AgoDecidedSevenAvailableSeven Years Author:Michael Rooker
“Everyone thinks I'm some big drug addict and loser because of the parts I play - quite the opposite. I decided to be a winner.” ThinkingPlayBigsDrugDecidedOppositesWinnerLoserAddictDrug Addict Author:Taryn Manning
“But you need to strive to try and communicate and try and change things in a similar way. And then people can think that's pretentious or whatever, but it's your life's work, and you've decided that. That's what they made us believe. So we have a pretty high standard, which is at times great and at times not.” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsTryingBelieveMadeStandardsDecidedStriveCommunicatePretentiousHigh Standards Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“I think sometimes people haven't really quite worked out how to peg me, or exactly what it is that I do. In that way, I feel lucky that I can get to play different things because they haven't quite decided what I am.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsI CanDifferentSometimesPlayHavensLuckyDecidedDifferent ThingsPeg Author:Miranda Otto
“We all have the people we follow on Tumblr whose opinions or taste we respect. And I think because you see so much more variety of opinions and everything on the internet, it's less decided that something is good or bad. It's more like we all just sort of like what we like.” PeopleThinkingOpinionInternetTasteDecidedVariety Author:Tavi Gevinson
“I don't feel that I decided deliberately I'm going to write something and have it stand alone. Somewhere by the end I think it would probably revert to imagery.” ThinkingFeelsWritingEndsDecidedImageryStand Alone Author:Raymond Pettibon
“What I was interested in wasn't popular and young, but I never really deviated from doing it. I just decided that I was going to go full force into exactly what I wanted. I think there's a certain comfort that comes with age and experience, and when I got that, I think my work got better.” ThinkingAgeWantedYoungCertainForceComfortDecidedAge And Experience Author:Jason Wu
“Around age 18, I decided to start writing my own stuff. I wrote some bad short films and shot them. I tried to make them better and better. I slowly learned how to make movies, and I think I'm still learning.” ThinkingWritingStillsAgeFilmStuffMy OwnShotsDecidedShort Films Author:Quentin Dupieux
“And maybe the cereal makers by and large have learned to be less crazy about fighting for market share-because if you get even one person who's hell-bent on gaining market share.... For example, if I were Kellogg and I decided that I had to have 60% of the market, I think I could take most of the profit out of cereals. I'd ruin Kellogg in the process. But I think I could do it.” IfsThinkingPersonsFightingProcessHellShareCrazyExampleDecidedProfitRuinsMakersBentCereal Author:Charlie Munger
“I look in the mirror and think, 'I don't look like a rock star.' I talked about this with Bono and we looked at each other and decided we look like a pair of bricklayers.” ThinkingLooksStarsRocksDecidedMirrorsPairsRock StarBricklayers Author:Billy Joel
“It's Very Important to understand the difference between dreams and goals. Dreams are things we wish for-things you enjoy thinking about but don't really know when they'll happen. Goals, on the other hand, are specific things you have decided you need to accomplish within a clearly defined period of time.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsImportantDreamHandsHappensWishEnjoyGoalDifferencesPeriodsDecidedAccomplishDefinedDreams And GoalsGoals Dreams Author:Bill Phillips
“Do I think men are complicated? People are complicated! I don't know that there is one particular aspect of men in general that I don't understand - other than why do they have nipples? I thought we decided that men are just big, hairy apes.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenBigsParticularAspectDecidedComplicatedApesNipples Author:Scarlett Johansson
“So many dancers feel that what they look like is more important than who they are. This is a real danger for dancers who focus for years on appearances and think of themselves as merely a body. The choreographer can't work with them in the realm of ideas. It's a huge problem if they haven't been connecting internally. If they've decided that what's inside is of little value, they can only try to approximate some kind of look.” IfsThinkingFeelsTryingYearsLooksKindLittlesImportantIdeasRealProblemBodyValuesFocusHavensDangerHugeDecidedAppearanceRealmsDancerConnectingChoreographers Author:Alonzo King
“I want you to think back to when you were a kid. Remember the day you learned you could burn ants with a magnifying glass? Oh, what a great day that was! You got to be God. You decided who lived, who died. I must've burned ants for an hour, just laughing. Then I saw one on my arm. Let me tell you something, when you burn yourself with a magnifying glass, you're on your own. You can't even tell your mom, because she gives that face, Oh, he is that stupid.” ThinkingWantGivingKidsRememberFacesHoursLaughingSawsStupidArmsMomDecidedLet MeDiedGlassesBurnedI Want YouAntsYour MomGreat DayMagnifyingMagnifying Glass Author:Bill Engvall
“There was one woman who had a giant sign and on it, it just said, 'America Is Better Than Abortion.' I think she meant that America was too good a place for the horror of abortion. But instead, it sounded like she had weighed both - the American spirit and getting an abortion and decided that American spirit better. I think it is a bad idea to have grammatically ambiguous protest signs.” ThinkingSaidIdeasAmericaSpiritHorrorDecidedGiantsAbortionProtestOne WomanBad IdeasAmbiguousAmerican Spirit Author:Eugene Mirman
“I think I've got a peculiar disease. I call it the curse of history, and it has to do with the fugitive absence/presence of both personal and collective memory. At first I thought it was a kind of personal illness, just related to time, private time, time that passes in one's life. So I decided to forget and throw myself into the future.” ThinkingFirstsKindMemoriesForgetDiseaseDecidedIllnessAbsenceCurseRelatedCollectivesPeculiarFugitiveCollective Memory Author:Gilles Peress
“Every manager would like to see a match decided in 90 minutes. Because I don't think there's any way you can prepare for penalty kicks.” ThinkingWayMinutesDecidedManagersKicksPenalties Author:Joachim Low
“It was right after 9/11 and I decided to walk around the grounds of the Pentagon, because I had never been there. Out of nowhere comes this speeding camouflaged golf cart and this guy starts yelling at me, 'What do you think you're doing!' The guy wrote my name down and began to follow me before I got really scared and took off as fast as I could.” ThinkingGuyNamesWalksDecidedDown AndGolfScaredThis GuyYellingFollow MeCartsPentagonSpeedingGolf Carts Author:Bill Burr
“I'm in the countryside outside of Paris, in a beautiful old manor house. The studio is in the basement, but we decided to set everything up in the old parlor and dining-room area so we can look at each other and (at) the sunshine coming through the stained-glass windows. It's pretty idyllic, and I think it's spoiling me. I'll have to go back to regular life after this.” ThinkingLooksBeautifulHouseRoomsAreasWindowDecidedGlassesStudiosParisSunshineOld ManCountrysideBasementsDiningParlorDining RoomsIdyllicStained GlassStained Glass Windows Author:Feist
“Our lives aren't even about doing real things most of the time. We think and talk about people we've never met, pretend to visit places we've never actually been to, discuss things that are just names as though they were as real as rocks or animals or something. Information Age - Hell it's the Imagination Age. We're living in our own minds. No, she decided as the plane began its steep descent, really we're living in other people's minds.” PeopleThinkingMindRealAgeNamesImaginationAnimalHellOur LivesRocksInformationMetsDecidedPlanesReal ThingsDescentSteepInformation Age Author:Tad Williams
“Love's a weird one, isn't it? I've never told my husband Graham that I love him. He's never told me either. I think it started as a bit of a joke. We just decided never to say it.” ThinkingBitsHusbandJokesDecidedMy HusbandI Love Him Author:Sarah Beeny
“I think both of us [ with Steve Oram], once we decided to do comedy, knew that we would have to come to London to do that.” ThinkingComedyDecidedLondon Author:Alice Lowe
“It's best to think of these as two things - they're related, but there's different dynamics going on with each of them. A key difference is Abyei is contested territory. We still do not know whether Abyei is going to belong to the new country of South Sudan or effectively the new country of Sudan, the northern part. That was supposed to be decided by a referendum in January; that referendum never happened, so it was being dealt with through political negotiations.” ThinkingKnowsStillsTwoDifferentCountryPoliticalDifferencesHappenedKeysDecidedSouthSupposed To BeRelatedTwo ThingsTerritoryNegotiationJanuaryDynamicsReferendumsSudan Author:Rebecca Hamilton
“I decided to make myself a little less precious with my storytelling. I think you can see from the first three pieces in the book that I have a long term relationship with the short story as a form and I really love an elegantly crafted story that has several elements that come together in a way that is emotionally complex and different from when we started. That kind of crystalline, perfect, idealized thing that the short story as a genre has come to represent.” ThinkingWayFirstsKindLittlesLongBookDifferentStoriesTogetherFormThreeTermPerfectPiecesElementsDecidedComplexesStorytellingGenreLong TermShort StoryLong Term Relationship Author:Lucy Corin
“I sort of plunged into filmmaking. I decided I'd jump off the deep end, so I started thinking about what kind of a movie I should try to make.” ThinkingShouldTryingKindEndsDecidedFilmmaking Author:Charles Ferguson
“So basically, it just really represents our band and we didn't even think about that when we decided to call it 'Warpaint'. And then through getting asked questions about "why is that song called 'Warpaint'?" - then we realised, "oh my god! THAT'S why!" And we didn't even know why... but that's why! And then 'Shadows' is just... I love that song and it's personal to me. I love how it turned out!!” ThinkingKnowsSongBandShadowDecidedRealised Author:Theresa Wayman
“I think any actor will tell you that they always assume they'll never work again, so every job becomes important. But Better Call Saul is a real capstone for me, a once-in-a-career opportunity, I think. I'm so happy they decided to invite me to their party. I can't wait to see where it takes me.” ThinkingI CanImportantRealJobsActorsOpportunityWaitingPartyCareersDecidedAssumingTake MeInvitesCareer OpportunitiesCapstone Author:Patrick Fabian
“That was a general impression that one got, that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was always flitting around the country and descending on some place in the Ozarks that she decided was disadvantaged, and announcing that something had to be done. And she had a very active social conscience, which I think in general is to her credit, although it tended, as many people thought, to just be overdone to the point where it gave rise to this crack that she regarded the whole world as one vast slum project” PeopleThinkingWorldCountryDoneWholeSocialProjectsConscienceDecidedCreditActiveImpressionWhole WorldCracksSlumsEleanorDescendingAnnouncingDisadvantagedOzarks Author:William A. Rusher
“My daughter decided to embrace and celebrate who she was. She was a size 2 at one time, but she decided she didn't want to be hungry anymore. I think that's how you turn it around. Today, more and more designers are recognizing how lucrative that market is.” ThinkingWantTodayTurnsDaughterDecidedEmbraceSizeHungryCelebrateDesignerMy DaughterOne TimeRecognizing Author:Beverly Johnson
“hough I was creative, I also liked math and science. At Knox College, I studied creative writing and earned a degree in chemistry, thinking I would attend medical school. Ultimately, I decided that a career in nursing would allow more time for pursuing other creative interests. While I worked as an RN, I wrote stories inspired by my patients, designed t-shirts, and made hand-painted sandals.” ThinkingWritingMadeStoriesHandsSchoolInterestCareersCreativeCollegeDegreesDecidedInspiredPatientMathMedicalShirtsMore TimeChemistryT ShirtCreative WritingNursingMath And ScienceMedical SchoolSandals Author:Mary Pope Osborne
“I was at home waiting for projects. I was on Parenthood and there was one season left, and I was thinking, "What's next?" I'm at this age where I'm trying to write my own script, and they sent this over and I decided to put myself on tape.” ThinkingWritingTryingHomeAgeNextLeftWaitingMy OwnProjectsDecidedSeasonsScriptsParenthoodTape Author:Ray Romano
“You can actually muck with history and think about what if, why not. What if there were dragons in the Incan Empire that allowed them to resist colonization? What if there were a massive dragon empire in the middle of the interior of southern Africa that decided to take objection to the slave trade?” IfsThinkingMiddleDecidedTradeSlaveEmpiresDragonsWhat IfMassiveWhy NotSouthernInteriorsObjectionsColonizationSlave TradeSouthern Africa Author:Naomi Novik
“I just realized, sometime early on in college, that I wanted to be a philosopher. I basically decided that I wanted to spend my life thinking as deeply and carefully and reflectively as I could about the nature of reality and our human engagement with it, and that taking a philosophical approach was the best way to go about doing this.” ThinkingWayHumansRealityWantedCollegeApproachDecidedPhilosophicalPhilosopherBest WayEngagementJust Realized Author:L.A. Paul
“I am a man who used to wear the tights. We traveled the country doing two Shakespeare plays for bored college students for about a year. I think I'd probably still be doing it now if I hadn't just randomly decided to go to a sketch group audition. That led to doing improv, which led to the Daily Show. But it was fun while it lasted.” IfsThinkingMenYearsStillsTwoCountryPlayShowsUsedFunGroupsStudentsCollegeDecidedBoredTraveledAuditionsCollege StudentsTightsDaily ShowShakespeare Play Author:Rob Corddry
“I've tried over the years all kinds of ways of going about writing and even just thinking about the idea of writing. There was a time when I decided to try to write a song each day. Whether it was good or bad wasn't important.” ThinkingWayWritingTryingYearsKindImportantIdeasSongDecidedAll KindsEach Day Author:Kurt Wagner
“I don't really know. I think the first test is when you're very little and you fart, and you laugh at it and so do your friends and family. I knew before I was funny I was very annoying so I have that covered. I think it was because I was not very good in school I used humor as a defense mechanism. When I started doing plays and stuff at school I decided that I was going to keep doing it until someone tells me to stop and get a real job.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsLittlesRealPlaySchoolJobsUsedStuffLaughingDecidedTestsVery GoodDefenseCoveredAnnoyingMechanismFamily And FriendsFartReal JobsDefense Mechanisms Author:Joel McHale