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“I'm afraid of coaching, of writer's classes, of writer's magazines, of books on how to write. They give me centipede trouble - you know the yarn about the centipede who was asked how he managed all his feet? He tried to answer, stopped to think about it, and was never able to walk another step.”

Author:John Assaraf

“When you're truly awesome, you know that it's actually a burden and wish day after day to be relieved of such a curse. Think of about 95% of the superheroes.”

Thinking Knows Wish Mental Health Burden Curse Superhero Relieved

Book:Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

Source: Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“Crazy to think that we're having surgery, we're trying to excise cancer, we don't know where the cancer is. We're trying to preserve nerves; we can't see where they are.”

Thinking Knows Trying Inspiration Motivation Crazy Cancer Preserves Nerves Healthcare Surgery

Author:Nguyen Quyen

“I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am a person who cares about kids and who cares about truth and I am guided by my own instincts, and trust them.”

Thinking Knows Writing Persons Book Care Kids My Own Possibility Instinct Censorship Who Cares New Books

Author:Lois Lowry

“Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race.”

Thinking Knows Needs Today Race Cities New York Tough New York City Invited Marathon Think Twice

Author:Martin Lel

“A lot of people tell me, once they get to know me, that they're surprised that I'm nothing like they think I'll be.”

People Thinking Knows Know Me Get To Know Me

Author:Miranda Lambert

“I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It's just hard to get comfortable with Gore - it was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.”

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Author:Al Franken

“Whenever I go out, so many people who respect me ask me what to do in a certain situation. A lot of times, I didn't know the answers because sometimes I was going through the same sort of thing. But then later on, I would think of things that people told me.”

People Thinking Knows Sometimes Certain Asks Answers Situation Ask Me Respect Me

Author:Patti LaBelle

“Most Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.”

Thinking Knows Should Looks Law Worry Tvs Bills Cables Website Flip Antitrust Antitrust Laws

Author:Al Franken

“Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.”

Thinking Knows Actors Good Actors

Author:Ron Livingston

“I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.”

People Thinking Knows World Character Our World

Author:Zoe Lister-Jones

“You know, Lincoln was funny. I don't think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you're funny.”

Thinking Knows Should Firsts Shows

Author:Al Franken

“I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting. The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.”

Thinking Knows World Way Want Ideas Facts Actors Acting Posts De Niro

Author:Ben Mendelsohn

“I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.”

Thinking Knows Humans Goodness Surprise Badness Where You Stand

Author:David Morrissey

“For a long time I felt like I was fighting my age, like I was constantly trying to prove to people that I was a savvy peer, and I felt them viewing me as a kid. I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9, you know? I think that’s because my parents always treated me as an adult.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Long Kids Age Fighting Felt Parent Prove Long Time Adults Treated Peers Cocky Savvy

Author:Ezra Miller

“I've definitely seen that Texas is certainly a right-wing area politically. I think if you talk to the average Texan, some people may still think that alternative energy is some sort of hippie mumbo-jumbo, you know. I think there's still a strong movement to continue to drill and continue to find these other sources of oil within the country.”

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Author:Jesse Metcalfe

“People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole work. But then people look at a painting for two minutes and think they've seen it. Certain paintings are made to be consumed fast. But some require a slowed-down time. You have to go back to them.”

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Author:Julie Mehretu

“Broadcasting for advertisers is still the best game in town, and they know it. Look, I admire a lot of the shows on cable. I think 'Mad Men' is wonderful. I think 'Breaking Bad' is wonderful. But let's remember they're about one-tenth the audience of NCIS.”

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Author:Leslie Moonves

“I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.”

People Thinking Knows Sound Simple Talking Television Perfectly Good

Author:Paul McGann

“I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite sheltered then and didn't know anything much about the world. I hadn't had any direct experience of how the world works.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Direct Twenties

Author:Richard K. Morgan

“I think - you know, I'm a guy that - I don't live on the earth just to walk it. I live on here to make a difference.”

Thinking Knows Earth Guy Differences Walks Making A Difference

Author:Tracy McGrady

“Who doesn't love a 'Lifetime' movie? I think that they know their audience so well.”

Thinking Knows Wells Audience Lifetime

Author:Vanessa Marano

“I think you always have, you know, new players. Every year you see new faces, juniors coming into the seniors. I was one of them at the time long time ago now.”

Thinking Knows Years Long Faces Sports Player Long Time Senior Long Time Ago Juniors New Faces

Author:Amelie Mauresmo

“It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a scene and think to yourself, 'Oh, God. I was so deep in that moment,' and find it just didn't play. I don't know if I have very good radar about that or not.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Matter Play Moments Audience Scene Very Good That Moment Radar

Author:Carey Mulligan

“I think everything that happens in life we're prepared for in ways we really don't really know.”

Thinking Knows Way Happens Prepared

Author:Chrisette Michele

“I think that's the great thing, ya' know, that women can do anything that they want now.”

Thinking Knows Want Can Do Great Things

Author:Cindy Margolis

“What you think of a name depends so much on the people you know by that name.”

People Thinking Knows Names Depends

Author:Doug McClure

“'What do you really think happens after you die?' That's the question that everyone, everyone, everyone asks. And I'm so sick of it. But my true answer is, I don't know. And there's no way I'm going to find out 'til it happens.”

Thinking Knows Way Happens Dies Asks Answers Sick So Sick

Author:Ellen Muth

“I don't know why this is, maybe because I am 33 or what, but I didn't think it would be that easy for me to get pregnant. But it was.”

Thinking Knows Would Be Easy Pregnant

Author:Holly Madison

“Once I decide I want to do something, I just work really hard and I do it, and I just know it's going to work. I think really positively.”

Thinking Knows Want Hard Going To Work Positively

Author:Holly Madison

“You know, I think when you are unemployed, especially for a long time, it's hard to be inspired or hopeful almost about anything. So it's tough, especially when there has been such gridlock here in D.C. You know, when we are fighting and can't get anything done, whether you are liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican, no one wins.”

Thinking Knows Long Has Beens Hard Done Fighting Winning Republican Long Time Tough Democrat Inspired Conservative Hopeful Unemployed Be Inspired Gridlock

Author:Peter Welch

“If you like a story that's totally different and won't know which way it's going... where it's go ing to end up and which way it's going to take you, then I think my work fits the bill.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Different Ends Stories Fit Bills

Author:S. Robson Walton

“I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man.”

Thinking Knows Men America Easy Repeats Villain Again And Again Headlines Scapegoat Villainy Boogie

Author:Edward Zwick

“I think it's the sign of a leader to step up and say, you know, when something's not working to have the guts to reverse it. And the worst thing you can do is to let that mistake linger.”

Thinking Knows Can Do Mistake Leader Steps Worst Guts Reverse Worst Things Step Up

Author:Jeff Zucker

“I think 'The Lord Of The Rings' is the mother of all cult books, because you can be in that cult and not even know you're in it.”

Thinking Knows Book Mother Lord Rings Cult

Author:Markus Zusak

“Josh Radnor is that rare thing: a writer-director who thinks like an actor but still knows how to create a comedy with shape and vision. Liberal Arts is the best movie about college I’ve seen since I don’t know what...Dryly affectionate and super-sharp. Elizabeth Olsen is every inch a star.”

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Author:Owen Gleiberman

“I'm not rebellious, but I am very strong-willed. I know what I believe in, and I know what I think is right.”

Thinking Knows Believe Strong I Believe I Believe In Very Strong Rebellious Strong Willed

Author:Alli Simpson

“I think test-driven design is great. But you can test all you want and if you don’t know how to approach the problem, you’re not going to get a solution.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Problem Know How Design Approach Solutions Tests Driven

Author:Peter Norvig

“I mean, Robert Pattinson. No, I’m kidding, I shouldn’t say that. He’s actually really nice. My neighbour works with him and said he was a great guy. I don’t know to be honest, I don’t really model myself after anybody. You’re always just trying to create opportunities and be ready when those opportunities present themselves. I can’t look at anybody and think ‘I want to be Damian Lewis’ – I’d be setting myself up for failure.”

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Author:Diego Klattenhoff

“I find it quite difficult to think that there's, you know, about 20 million people listening to my album that I wrote very selfishly to get over a breakup. I didn't write it being that it's going to be a hit.”

People Thinking Knows Writing Difficult Millions Listening Albums Breakup Get Over

Author:Adele

“One of my best friends growing up was gay. ... It’s never been an issue for me. ... I think there was a time in my life, probably in college, that I wished every guy was gay, because it just meant more women for me! ‘I don’t know why you guys have a problem with this thing! I think it’d be great! I wish everyone was gay!’ ... That’s always the way I thought about it. ... I have no issue with it. If I have to suffer through marriage, why shouldn’t they?”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Problem Guy Suffering Wish Growing Up Issues Growing College Gay My Best Friend Friends Growing Up

Author:Donald Trump, Jr.

“When I read Spencer Madsen’s poetry, I not only feel awe because he’s so good, one of the best, but I also think about how everything in the world is happening at the same time, and how the world we get to know is so heavily edited down. It’s the hugest, weirdest feeling. I wish Spencer Madsen could be everywhere at once. I really love You Can Make Anything Sad.”

Thinking Knows World Feels Feelings Wish Love You Happenings Awe Edited

Author:Dennis Cooper

“I think it's important that readers know that not every celebrity is a freak.”

Thinking Knows Important Reader Freak

Author:Shania Twain

“I would like to believe there is a God, but I think it is better to say I'm not sure there is a God and live your life with kindness and respect for people than to say I know there is a God and then do bad things.”

People Thinking Knows Believe Kindness Not Sure Bad Things Live Your Life

Author:Rafael Nadal

“Philosophy wasn't about facts, it was about ideas. My first essay title was something like: 'How can you know what other people are thinking?' I thought, 'Wow, what an amazing thing.' I really thought deeply for the first time.”

People Thinking Knows Firsts Ideas Philosophy Facts First Time Titles Wow Essays Amazing Things

Author:Sophie Kinsella

“Well, you know, like, I don`t really give a f**k what the general public think.”

Thinking Knows Giving Wells General Public

Author:Sid Vicious

“I'm going to continue working as a model. I want to do it all! And I think it's possible to keep working while you go to school. Christy Turlington did it. Natalie Portman did it. Emma Watson just did it! And those are just women in the public eye, but plenty of others do it, too. You know, women around the world are great at multitasking. We do it well.”

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Author:Karlie Kloss

“For some reason, people think I am this terrible person and it really hurts me to hear that. I am just doing the best I know how to.”

People Thinking Knows Persons Reason Hurt Know How Terrible Hurt Me It Really Hurts

Author:Anna Nicole Smith

“I think that, you know, this is a different year than most years. We've got to tell the American people that we have to live with less. We have a $13.5 trillion debt. And the only way to do that is an honest campaign with honest people.”

People Thinking Knows Way Years Different Honest Debt Campaigns Honest People

Author:Ken Buck

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