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“In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, 'When are you going to get out of the corsets?' And I was thinking I just got into them!”

Thinking Two Stuff Pieces Modern Periods Contemporary Australia Corsets

Author:Frances O'Connor

“I just think you would never kill and cut up a human to wear so why do it to animals? I just think it's horrible, I would never wear fur, although I guess if it was a really vintage piece you might just get away with it.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Might Animal Pieces Cutting Horrible Get Away Fur Vintage

Author:Kelly Osbourne

“I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing.”

Thinking World Trying Has Beens Pieces Figures Complicated Hearing Listeners Terrific

Author:Leo Ornstein

“No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music.”

Thinking Want Writing Persons Pieces Urges

Author:Leo Ornstein

“I know that the writers I read and admire all have an influence on my work, but trying to determine to what degree any particular piece of input changes the way I think about writing seems counterproductive.”

Thinking Knows Way Writing Trying Seems Pieces Influence Particular Degrees Determine Admire Input Counterproductive

Author:Kevin Powers

“Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this subterfuge that we are giving them no more than they deserve. It is a meanness which we associate with criminals and vagabonds; a piece of crawling and sneaking...Men whose race is universally known, will unblushingly adopt a false name as a mask, and after a year or two pretend to treat it as an insult if their original and true name be used in its place.”

Source: The Jews

“I think it's cooler when girls have favorite pieces of clothing rather than an entirely new wardrobe every few months.”

Thinking Girl Pieces Months Clothings Wardrobe

Author:Cameron Russell

“Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.”

Thinking Wells Littles Character Bits Pieces Little Bit Bits And Pieces

Author:Phyllis Smith

“I think the tendency to over-explain and over describe is one of the most common failings in fantasy. It's an unfortunate piece of Tolkien's legacy. Don't get me wrong, Tolkien was a great worldbuilder, but he got a little caught up describing his world at times, at the expense of the overall story.”

Thinking World Writing Littles Stories Common Fantasy Pieces Failing Caught Tendencies Legacy Expenses Unfortunate Caught Up Describing

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“I like to be able to come and go as I please, and I don't really like having my face and name plastered around. I think it's a bit weird to have your name plastered on every page in a magazine, where in each case you're using a different piece of equipment.”

Thinking Different Able Faces Names Bits Cases Pieces Please Pages Magazines Equipment Comes And Goes

Author:Geddy Lee

“Lately, I just let myself eat it more because I think, 'Oh, my God, a piece of cheese tastes so good'. I think it's your body telling you something.”

Thinking Body Pieces Taste Your Body Cheese

Author:Jean Smart

“I know that doesn't sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is important. I also think there's an occasional piece that will pop out.”

Thinking Knows Important Literature Sound Pieces New York Pops Radical Occasional New York Times

Author:David Talbot

“I am not a piece of hash. I'm in charge of Factory Records. I think.”

Thinking Records Pieces Factories Hash

Author:Tony Wilson

“If we think systematically, we will stop asking, How much is nature worth? We will know that we are a piece of nature ourselves.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Nature Pieces Asking

Author:Karl-Henrik Robert

“I would like to do a period piece. I think that would be fun.”

Thinking Would Be Fun Pieces Periods

Author:Beau Mirchoff

“Even you, who’ve lived inside your body for 64 years, would apparently be unable to recognize your foot in an isolated photograph of that foot, not to think of your ear or one of your eyes or elbow, also familiar to you in the context of the whole, but utterly anonymous when taken piece by piece. We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.”

Ifs Thinking Years Whole Body Eye Taken Pieces Feet Ears Photograph Your Body Familiar Aliens Who We Are Isolated Think Of You Elbows

Author:Paul Auster

“I think I could describe the perfect quarterback. Take a little piece of everybody. Take John Elway's arm, Dan Marino's release, maybe Troy Aikman's drop-back, Brett Favre's scrambling ability, Joe Montana's two-minute poise and, naturally, my speed.”

Thinking Littles Two Ability Perfect Pieces Minutes Arms Speed Release Quarterback Montana Poise

Author:Peyton Manning

“You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.”

Thinking Might Pieces Understood Make You Happy Duran Duran

Author:Nick Rhodes

“The most peerless piece of earth, I think, that e' er the sun shone bright on.”

Thinking Earth Beauty Sun Pieces

Book:The Winter's Tale: Third Series

Source: The Winter's Tale: Third Series

“I think that there's a strong crossover in that Janis, studying the visual arts, was learning how to break it down into details and see how to get the expression that we wanted. And her visual art is emotionally expressive as her singing was. And, I think, when she switched over to singing, she already knew that it was something serious that you broke into pieces so she developed the ability to break it down and learn little riffs that she could throw in here and there.”

Thinking Littles Art Wanted Strong Ability Break Study Pieces Serious Expression Singing Art Is Down And Details Broke Visuals Here And There Expressive Visual Art Crossover

Author:Laura Joplin

“Once you do a piece on the stage, you become that poem or you become that piece. That's really who you are. I think that's why some artists have stage names, you know? I don't have a stage name, it's pretty much just me.”

Thinking Knows Artist Actors Names Acting Pieces Stage Who You Are Theatre

Author:Clinton D. Powell

“I don't think there's anything to be desired in a bunch of people chasing you around, trying to get a piece of your clothing.”

People Thinking Trying Pieces Bunch Clothings Chasing

Author:Sam Waterston

“It sounds like I'm channeling or something, and I don't really fully understand what it is. I'll get a piece of paper and write down what I think is coming to me. And I'll play it once. Whether it's being recorded or not, I can then usually remember it for a sometimes shocking amount of time.”

Thinking Writing I Can Sometimes Play Remember Sound Pieces Amount Paper Shocking Channeling

Author:Ryan Adams

“I have learned to cry again and I think perhaps that means I am a human being again. Perhaps that at least. A piece of human being but, yes, a human being.”

Thinking Humans Mean Human Beings Pieces Sadness Cry I Have Learned Being Sad

Book:Sophie's Choice

Source: Sophie's Choice

“When you really think about your hand you begin to realize its connection, to sense the hum of your own being passing through it. When we look at a piece of the universe we should feel the same.”

Thinking Feels Should Looks Hands Universe Realizing Pieces Connections Passing Passings Passing Through

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music?”

Thinking Writing Years Play Happens Waiting Pieces Expression And Love Thirty Sincere Composer Thirty Years

Author:Charles Mingus

“I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.”

Thinking Knows Matter Kids Know How Teacher Pieces Subjects Achievement Critical Gaps Closing Subject Matter Impart Achievement Gap

Author:Margaret Spellings

“When it comes to fully understanding how to strategically move all the pieces on the marketing and distribution chess board on a worldwide basis, Jeff Blake is always thinking two moves ahead and that gives Sony a true competitive edge. He is the studio's secret weapon and while he would be the first to credit his fantastic sales and marketing team, there are few executives here that deserve more credit for our successes during the past several years than Jeff.”

“Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do so, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces.”

Ifs Thinking Jobs Learning Pieces Teaching Love You Glory Enthusiasm Shakes Love Your Job

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as a block of marble in which we are to find the statue by removing the rubbish, nor as a receptacle into which knowledge may be poured; but as a flame that is to be fed, as an active being that must be strengthened to think and to feel -- and to dare, to do, and to suffer.”

Thinking Feels Mind May Suffering Pieces Shapes Regard Dare Active Block Flames Iron Feds Statues Marble Rubbish Hammered Anvils

Book:Miscellaneous Essays and Discourses

Source: Miscellaneous Essays and Discourses

“I think when people say they dread going into work on Monday morning, it's because they know they are leaving a piece of themselves at home. Why not see what happens when you challenge your employees to bring all of their talents to their job and reward them not for doing it just like everyone else, but for pushing the envelope, being adventurous, creative, and open-minded, and trying new things?”

Source: Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“...from this day forward until the day you are buried, do two things each day. First, master a difficult old insight, and second, add some new piece of knowledge to the world each day.”

Thinking World Firsts Two Difficult Pieces Masters Add Insight Two Things Each Day This Day Buried

Author:Edwin Land

“I give myself different roles. I think in different ways on different days. Sometimes I think of it as cooking - different flavors and different ingredients. Sometimes I think of it like orchestrating a piece of music with all the different instruments.”

Thinking Way Giving Different Sometimes Roles Pieces Instruments Cooking Different Ways Ingredients Flavor Different Day

Author:Joe Bradley

“I stared hard, trying to find a pattern. Thinking if I kept looking hard enough, maybe the pieces of the world would fit back together into something I could understand.”

Ifs Thinking World Trying Hard Enough Together Pieces Fit Patterns Back Together

Author:Carol Rifka Brunt

“Music's always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can't create or experience one without its influences bleeding into another. In my writing, music's mostly something that feeds my inspiration and mood while I'm writing, but it's also taught me how to score scenes and even novels. The rise and fall of the storyline echoes the flow of a good piece of music.”

Thinking Writing Art Inspiration Fall Novel Pieces Influence Taught Scene Art Is Flow Mood Score Echoes Bleeding Interconnected Writing Music Rise And Fall Storyline

Author:Charles de Lint

“Think of it: the lowest common denominator in being digital is not your operating system, modem, or model of computer. It's a tiny piece of plastic, designed decades ago by Bell Labs' Charles Krumreich, Edwin Hardesty, and company, who thought they were making an inconspicuous plug for a few telephone handsets. Not in their wildest dreams was Registered Jack 11 - a modular connector more commonly known as the RJ-11 - meant to be plugged and unplugged so many times, by so many people, for so many reasons, all over the world.”

“I think there are pieces of yourself that you will always guard.”

Thinking Pieces

Author:Kiera Cass

“I know a famous violinist who told me he can't compose because he knows too many pieces. So, when he starts thinking of a note, an existing piece immediately comes to mind. Just starting out, one of your biggest strengths is not knowing how things are supposed to be.”

Thinking Knows Mind Knowing Pieces Notes Starting Supposed To Be Not Knowing Starting Out Violinist

Author:Natalie Portman

“Dude, what matters is if you're happy. What matters is your future. What matters is that we get out of here in one piece. What matters is finding the truth of our own lives, not caring about what other people think is the truth of us.”

People Ifs Thinking Matter Pieces Findings Caring Our Future What Matters Your Future One Piece Not Caring Finding Out The Truth

Author:A.S. King

“Here's the thing about hair; I think most people think that I have Lego hair, like I can just take it on and off in one piece, and that's not quite the case - although pretty close.”

People Thinking I Can Cases Pieces Hair And Off One Piece Legos

Author:Pete Wentz

“I think there are pieces of me you've never seen.”

Thinking Pieces

Author:Tori Amos

“When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by Mr. Ezra Pound is seriously offered as a poem, there is some justification for the plain reader and orthodox critic who shrinks from anything that may be labelled 'modernist' either in terms of condemnation or approbation. Better he thinks, that ten authentic poets should be left for posterity to discover than one charlatan should be allowed to steal into the Temple of Fame.”

Thinking Should May Long Left Term Pieces Stage Poet Reader Fame Ten Critics Following Stealing Temples Pounds Orthodox Justification Long Ago Shrinks Posterity Condemnation Charlatans

Author:Laura Riding

“American audiences love period pieces. America doesn't have a lot of old things. It's a new country so I think we're a little bit fascinated by that.”

Thinking Littles Country America Bits Audience Pieces Periods Little Bit Fascinated Old Things

Author:Channing Tatum

“When you advance a frontier, you're doing something that no one has done before. Every time that happens, you have to innovate. You have to think in new ways that hadn't been thought before. You have to invent a new piece of hardware, a new concept, a new law of physics, a new material, a new construction material to enable you to accomplish what it is that you chose to reach for by dreaming about tomorrow.”

Thinking Way Done Dream Happens Law Pieces Materials Tomorrow Concepts Accomplish Physics Construction New Ways Frontiers Hardware Laws Of Physics

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“When you first sit down to write the first song, until you've maybe got three or four under your belt, it's always, to me, like a mountain to climb. You look at that one blank piece of paper and you think, `God, how many songs do I have to write here?' It always feels like pressure.”

Thinking Feels Writing Firsts Looks Song Three Pieces Four Mountain Paper Pressure Climbs Blank Belts

Author:Martin Gore

“A piece of drapery is like a necktie, hot stuff to paint, and one of the easiest things for a painter to kid himself into thinking he can do. Don't be fooled by the color. Go after the shape and character. Hew the forms together with colored tones.”

Thinking Character Kids Together Form Stuff Can Do Pieces Color Shapes Hot Paint Painter Tone Fooled Neckties

Author:John French Sloan

“I'm constantly thinking about trying to piece together collaborators... All disciplines can be narrow.”

Thinking Trying Together Pieces Discipline Collaboration Collaborators Constantly Thinking

Author:Judith Weir

“I do hope some of my work has a long lifetime. A piece that works out well this year may work out very well in twenty years' time as well, but I'm very much thinking about what's the right piece now, at this moment.”

Thinking Years Wells May Long Moments Pieces Twenties Lifetime Work Out Immortality Long Life

Author:Judith Weir

“I can only think seriously of trying to live up to an ideal, to improve myself, if I am split in two pieces. There must be a good “I” who is going to improve the bad “me.” “I,” who has the best intentions, will go to work on wayward “me,” and the tussle between the two will very much stress the difference between them. Consequently “I” will feel more separate than ever, and so merely increase the lonely and cut-off feelings which make “me” behave so badly.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Trying I Can Two Feelings Differences Pieces Cutting Ideals Lonely Increase Stress Intention Behave Splits Prove Myself Best Intentions

Author:Alan Watts

“One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements dissolve, and leave a fabric of relationships behind, which is the stuff that actually repeats itself, and gives the structure to a building or a town.”

Thinking Giving Seems Stuff Behinds Pieces Building Elements Towns Structure Block Repeats Fabric Building Blocks

Author:Christopher Alexander

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