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“I went to film school so I have a writing and directing background, and I think a lot of the material I'm interested in writing and getting out there is stories about anti-heroes and people you should just not ordinarily root for - trying to figure out a way of appealing to people they wouldn't normally appeal to.”

People Thinking Way Should Writing Trying Stories School Film Figures Materials Hero Roots Backgrounds Appeals Film School Anti Hero

Author:Danny McBride

“The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself.”

People Thinking Kind Responsibility Leader Imagine Roots Chaos Contrary Anarchy Personal Responsibility

Author:Alan Moore

“I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.”

Thinking Different Culture Serious Musician Roots Rock N Roll Different Cultures

Author:Jimmy Page

“I was kind of surprised to learn how controlling I am. I never thought of myself in that way. I think the root of the control issues is usually fear, because you want to know what's going to be happening at any given moment.”

Thinking Knows Way Want Kind Moments Given Issues Happenings Roots Control Issues

Author:Michelle Pfeiffer

“So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate. Do you have to know them? No, but certainly it is nice to recognise how deeply these things are embedded in our literature, our art.”

Thinking Knows Art Culture Literature Nice Roots Myth Recognise Embedded

Author:Rick Riordan

“I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.”

Thinking Needs Firsts Looks Important Player Team Youth Amount Roots Clubs Department Regions

Author:Arsene Wenger

“Running fills a need so we make fewer demands on others. Running reveals the roots of negative thinking, so the weeds can be pulled. Running reconnects the soul to the source, inspiring hope and creativity.”

Thinking Needs Soul Running Creativity Source Demand Negative Roots Weed Fewer Negative Thinking

Author:Kristin Armstrong

“I don't want to go on being a root in the dark, vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep, downward, in the soaked guts of the earth, absorbing and thinking, eating each day.”

Thinking Want Earth Dark Sleep Goes On Eating Roots Each Day Guts Absorbing

Book:Residence on Earth

Source: Residence on Earth

“If indeed it's a race Then the chicks do the most It isn't a brag Or an estrogen boast It's the women who've led me With big open hearts If not for their love I'd have failed at the start. And it's not just the mothers I speak of them ALL It's a woman there first When somebody falls. The multi of tasking That's easy to tease I dare a great man To try it all, PLEASE! So this is my shout out My rallying cry To women all over I hold you up high And though there are others Who'll think this poem strange It's the women who plant The root of big change.”

“So you think that money is the root of all evil? [...] Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?”

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.”

Thinking Has Beens Wisdom Time Learning Wise Words Of Wisdom Roots Experience Honestly Our Thoughts Deep Thought Personal Experiences Thoughts And Thinking

Book:The Wisdom of Goethe

Source: The Wisdom of Goethe

“Well, now If little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you Little by little If suddenly you forget me Do not look for me For I shall already have forgotten you If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots Remember That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms And my roots will set off to seek another land”

Source: The Captain's Verses: Love Poems

“Choices are funny things-ask a native tribe that's eaten grubs and roots forever if they're unhappy, and they'll shrug. But give them filet mignon and truffle sauce and then ask them to go back to living off the land, and they will always be thinking of that gourmet meal. If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Giving Choices Asks Forever Land Missing Roots Unhappy Alternatives Meals Native Tribes Funny Things Sauce Gourmet Truffles Filet Mignon

Book:Handle with Care: A Novel

Source: Handle with Care: A Novel

“It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry, the craft in a man's hand and the wisdom in a tree's root: they all arise together. My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. There is no other power. No other name.”

Thinking Men Years Children Ends Hands Together Names Stars Water Secret Sun Tree Wind Source Spring Roots Distance Shining Arise Crafts Candle Unborn Syllables Wizardry Unborn Child

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“For Rat Kiley, I think, facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of his stories, you'd find yourself performing rapid calculations in your head, subtracting superlatives, figuring the square root of an absolute and then multiplying by maybe.”

Thinking Way Facts Stories Roots Absolutes Performing Finding Yourself Sensations Squares Rats Rapids Calculations Multiplying Superlatives Square Roots

Book:The Things They Carried

Source: The Things They Carried

“A tree is alive, and thus it is always more than you can see. Roots to leaves, yes-those you can, in part, see. But it is more-it is the lichens and moss and ferns that grow on its bark, the life too small to see that lives among its roots, a community we know of, but do not think on. It is every fly and bee and beetle that uses it for shelter or food, every bird that nests in its branches. Every one an individual, and yet every one part of the tree, and the tree part of every one.”

Thinking Knows Use Individual Grows Community Environment Alive Tree Bird Roots Branches Bees Shelter Nests Bark Moss Beetles Ferns Interbeing

Author:Elizabeth Moon

“To-day I think Only with scents, - scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot's seed, And the square mustard field; Odours that rise When the spade wounds the root of tree, Rose, currant, raspberry, or goutweed, Rhubarb or celery; The smoke's smell, too, Flowing from where a bonfire burns The dead, the waste, the dangerous, And all to sweetness turns. It is enough To smell, to crumble the dark earth, While the robin sings over again Sad songs of Autumn mirth." - A poem called DIGGING.”

Source: Selected Poems of Edward Thomas

“But think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that it exists, but if you include it in your equations, you can calculate all manner of things that couldn't be imagined without it.”

Ifs Thinking Science Numbers Roots Proof Squares Adam Concrete Imaginary Equations Adam And Eve Minus Square Roots Imaginary Numbers

Author:Philip Pullman

“I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.”

Thinking Kind Mean Helping Action Purpose Certain Strong Religious Achieve Judging Discipline Roots Patience Stability Strong Roots

Author:George W. Bush

“Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy—“to stand outside”—comes to me in those moments when I am immersed so deeply in the act of thinking and writing that everything else, even flesh, falls away.”

Thinking Way Writing Moments Fall Passion Understanding Roots Flesh Ecstasy My Passion Ecstatic

Book:remembered rapture: the writer at work

Source: remembered rapture: the writer at work

“And that is how Goodwin problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring the elephant in the room. I think that morning was when I realized I'd grown up with an elephant in every room of my life. It was practically our family pet.”

Thinking Problem Rooms Morning Roots Surface I Realized Our Family Fixed Pet Elephants Elephant In The Room Family Pets

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“What I think I'll do is I'll do my best to yank Debbie out of me by the roots. And then I'll turn up on your doorstep, one day when you least expect it, and I'll hope by then you will have given up on your vampire.”

Thinking Turns Given One Day Roots Vampire Given Up Doorstep

Book:Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set

Source: Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set

“Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance.”

“There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don't think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don't think much about the branches, but all the time, they're connected by the trunk, you know?”

Thinking Knows Way Earth Perfect Growing Tree Roots Opposites Connected Branches Opposing Upside Down Trunks Symmetry

Book:Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

“Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight.”

Thinking Feels Years Sometimes Moments Moving Grows Mistake Pride Roots Sight

Book:Let The Great World Spin

Source: Let The Great World Spin

“Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but without wounding there is no saving... Where there is grafting there will always be a cutting, the graft must be let in with a wound; to stick it onto the outside or to tie it on with a string would be of no use. Heart must be set to heart and back to back or there will be no sap from root to branch. And this, I say, must be done by a wound, by a cut.”

Thinking Men Heart Done Use Seems Would Be Easy Process Cutting Roots Sticks Wounds Conversion Saving Ties Branches Strings Smooth Sap Easy Going Grafting

Author:John Bunyan

“My mother used to hope that I would rise up from my humble roots. Become someone sucessful, or even famous. I'm famous all right, but I don't think it's what she had in mind.”

Thinking Mind Used Mother Roots Humble Sucessful

Book:Breathless Reads Sampler

Source: Breathless Reads Sampler

“I do not think there is a woman in whom the roots of passion shoot deeper than in me.”

Thinking Passion Roots Deeper

Author:Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Thinking goes on in your head. It is not really deep into the roots of your being; it is not your totality.”

Thinking Goes On Roots Totality Really Deep

Author:Rajneesh

“Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is cor - the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart." Over time, this definition has changed, and today, we typically associate courage with heroic and brave deeds. But in my opinion, this definition fails to recognize the inner strength and level of commitment required for us to actually speak honestly and openly about who we are and about our experiences -- good and bad. Speaking from our hearts is what I think of as "ordinary courage.”

Thinking Mind Heart Today Form Speak Levels Opinion Failing Changed Ordinary Commitment Roots Brave Definitions Deeds Honestly Who We Are Inner Strength Latin Heroic Associates Good And Bad

Author:Brené Brown

“I think people are as individual as snowflakes, they kinda look alike but no two are the exactly the same, and all classification is the root of prejudice.”

People Thinking Looks Two Individual Roots Prejudice Classification Snowflake

Author:Craig Ferguson

“I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.”

Thinking Stills Might Gone Havens Roots Very Good Beer Hung Good Day Root Beer

Author:Holly Black

“People who have drawn wealth into their lives used The Secret, whether consciously or unconsciously. They think thoughts of abundance and wealth, and they do allow any contradictory thoughts to take root in their minds.”

People Thinking Mind Used Wealth Secret Positive Roots Optimism Optimistic Abundance Contradictory

Book:THE MAGIC

Source: THE MAGIC

“One cannot achieve peace without realizing justice, realize justice without seeking out the truth, seek out the truth without practicing freedom. So living and thinking free is the root of achieving peace in our world.”

Thinking World Realizing Justice Freedom Achieve Roots Seeking Our World Achieving Peace

Author:Sami Al-Arian

“Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities - a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say.”

Thinking Matter Might Quality Style Confidence Roots No Matter What Who You Are Attractive Willingness Sense Of Humor Fondness Be Who You Are Dark Hair Attractive Qualities

Author:Wentworth Miller

“Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to contain what this moment does not. When there is wanting in the mind, that moment feels incomplete. Wanting is seeing elsewhere. Completeness is being right here.”

Thinking Feels Mind Doe Moments Next Seeing Positive Thinking Roots Urges That Moment Elsewhere Incomplete Dissatisfaction Completeness

Author:Stephen Levine

“I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.”

Thinking Writing Creative Roots Tension Spoil Discharge

Book:Conversations with Norman Mailer

Source: Conversations with Norman Mailer

“Christianity is not a political theory. It is not even a cultural theory. It is, at its root, all about changing the heart of each man and woman, boy and girl, so that we begin to think God's thoughts and act in accordance with his character.”

Thinking Men Heart Character Political Humanity Girl Christianity Boys Theory Men And Women Roots Boy And Girl Political Theory

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. Keep your thoughts free from hate, and you need have no fear from those who hate you.”

Thinking Heart Long Enough Science Hate Grows Roots Filled Hate You No Fear Good Will Have No Fear Goliath

Author:George Washington Carver

“Anything that really frightens you may contain a clue to enlightenment. It may indicate to you how deeply you are attached to structure, whether mental, physical, or social. Attachment and resistance are appearances with the same root: when you resist by pulling away your awareness, the emotion is one of fear, and the contraction is experienced as a pull like magnetism or gravity; that is, attachment. That is why we often fear to open our minds to more exalted spiritual beings. We think fear is a signal to withdraw, when in fact it is a sign we are already withdrawing too much.”

“Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack for being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrong alternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as often as the right ones. We get along in life this way.”

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“I find that I end up liking songs if I really have an idea of something I wat to write about-some problem in my life or something I want to work through; if I don't have something like that at the root of the song, then I think I end up not caring about it as much. I gravitate towards some kind of concept or idea or situation that I want to write about. Very often I have to write, rewrite and come at it from an opposite angle...and I end up writing the opposite song that I thought I was going to write.”

Ifs Thinking Want Writing Kind Ideas Ends Problem Song Situation Concepts Roots Opposites Caring Songwriting Angle Not Caring

Author:Rivers Cuomo

“Christianity is not a "spiritual" religion, like some religions of the east. It is an intensely "practical" religion, having its moral roots in the practicality of judaism. It was not designed to change the way men think or believe as much as to change the way they act.”

Thinking Men Way Believe Spiritual Spirituality Belief Moral Christianity Roots East Practicals Judaism Practicality

Book:Best of Sydney J. Harris

Source: Best of Sydney J. Harris

“My Latin roots are very strong. All my life, because I'm blonde and blue-eyed, people who aren't Hispanic can't believe I am. And people who are Hispanic always think I'm not, because I don't look like them. Being Latin is part of who I am and I bring that part to every role.”

People Thinking Believe Looks Strong Roles Roots Blue Who I Am Latin Very Strong Blonde Hispanic Blue Eyed

Author:Cameron Diaz

“Everyone has a story, and the story changes, and the more I can root into the truth of things - it's so hard - I don't think anyone ever really puts it all together. But somewhere along the way it all became fused.”

Thinking Way I Can Hard Stories Together Roots Everyone Has A Story

Author:Robert Downey, Jr.

“I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.”

Thinking Giving Kids Jobs Grows Parent Roots Wings Wings To Fly

Author:Deborah Norville

“Think I'm gettin' sick, I'm feelin' illegal/ And not having money is the root of all evil”

Thinking Evil Roots Sick Illegal Money Is The Root Of All Evil

Author:Lil Wayne

“Some of the things that I do, I think are very important and much more important than the radio show or the television show that I do or anything else that I do. I think right at the top of the list is the basic thing. And of course the basic thing is to hopefully stop people from killing anything. And to create a non-violent diet for themselves, because a non-violent world has roots in a non-violent diet.”

People Thinking World Important Shows Courses Television Roots Killing Radio Lists Violent Hopefully Diets Television Shows Non Violent Basic Things

Author:Casey Kasem

“I think maybe God was trying to tell me that gentleness begins with strength, quietness with security. A great tree is both moved and unmoved, for it changes with the seasons, but its roots keep it anchored in the ground. Mastering a gentle and quiet spirit didn’t mean changing my personality, just regaining control of it, growing strong enough to hold back and secure enough to soften.”

Source: A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband

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