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“We are only here below as in an inn on a journey. Let us, then have the feelings of travelers. We should think a man very strange who attached himself much to his inn. The wise Christian will not do this.”

Thinking Men Should Feelings Christian Wise Journey Strange Traveler Inns

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“I have no idea whether I am completely sane. I don't think anybody is. I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world. I hope I don't hurt people. You hope not to hurt yourself too much, either. Maybe that's the definition of keeping yourself in check?”

People Thinking World Ideas Sometimes Eye Hurt Too Much Strange Definitions Checks No Idea Sane Strange World Through My Eyes

Author:Keira Knightley

“I've gone into auditions and I think they have an assumption about me when they see my photo and then I open my mouth and they say, 'Where exactly are you from? And you were born in Ethiopia? But you're Irish, but you also kind of sound English. That's really strange.' They want to put you in a box in LA, that's how they tend to do it there, so if you don't fit in that box, it makes it more difficult.”

Ifs Thinking Want Kind Difficult Sound Born Gone Strange Fit Mouths Boxes Assumption Auditions Ethiopia

Author:Ruth Negga

“I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.”

Thinking Way Character Havens Strange

Author:Mark Haddon

“As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent away to this public school in the middle of nowhere, and I think we managed to completely miss out on normal youth culture.”

Thinking Kind School Artist Culture Team Middle Missing Youth Strange Type Normal Vices Teenager Sensitive Captains Mixtures Public School Rugby Youth Culture Middle Of Nowhere

Author:Mark Haddon

“To be an actor, a lot of times it's a strange combination of high confidence and low self-esteem. Which is a weird combination to have, but I think it's sort of very common among actors.”

Thinking Self Actors Common Self Esteem Strange Lows Esteem Combination Low Self Esteem

Author:Kurt Fuller

“When I have conversations with people, for some strange reason they think I'm gonna die and they're not. But you know what? Death means nothing to me.”

People Thinking Knows Mean Reason Dies Strange Conversation

Author:Curtis Jackson

“Increasingly I think of myself as some strange and solitary conductor, introduced to a group of very dynamic musicians who happen to be my characters, and I have no idea how they are going to play together, and I have certainly no idea how I am going to put manners on them.”

Thinking Ideas Play Character Happens Together Groups Strange Musician Manners No Idea Solitary Conductor

Author:Colum McCann

“What you think is fake in your head comes off as not enough on camera, a lot of times. You almost have to overdo it, in this overly, sort of Broadway, large-gestures kind of way to come off as being realistic on camera. It's strange. You almost have to act really fake to come off looking real.”

Thinking Way Kind Real Enough Strange Cameras Fake Realistic Being Real Gestures Broadway

Author:Jack White

“It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen's day, not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a part of woman's life is that.”

Thinking Life Is Sex Fiction Strange Relation Jane Austen Great Women

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“Travelling, I worry about luggage, prices, and strange food. At home, I am free to broaden my mind by thinking about the higher things.”

Thinking Mind Home Worry Strange Higher Travel Luggage

Author:Mason Cooley

“In a way, being a Mormon prepares you to deal with science fiction, because we live simultaneously in two very different cultures. The result is that we all know what it's like to be strangers in a strange land. It's not just a coincidence that there are so many effective Mormon science fiction writers. We don't regard being an alien as an alien experience. But it also means that we're not surprised when people don't understand what we're saying or what we think.”

“After I went to bed I had a curious fancy as to dreams. In sleep the doors of the mind are shut, and thoughts come jumping in at the windows. They tumble headlong, and therefore are so disorderly and strange. Sometimes they are stout and light on their feet, and then they are rational dreams.”

Thinking Mind Sometimes Dream Light Sleep Doors Feet Strange Bed Window Rational Curious Fancy Thoughtful Jumping Stout Jumping In

Book:Boswell's Edinburgh Journals 1767-1786

Source: Boswell's Edinburgh Journals 1767-1786

“During the years 1945-1965 (I am referring to Europe), there was a certain way of thinking correctly, a certain style of politicaldiscourse, a certain ethics of the intellectual. One had to be on familiar terms with Marx, not let one's dreams stray too far from Freud.... These were therequirements that made the strange occupation of writing and speaking a measure of truth about oneself and one's time acceptable.”

“If I'm on skates, I feel at home no matter what I'm doing. If they wanted me to sing and dance I think I could do it just becauseI was on skates. When I'm not on skates, though, I feel very strange.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Matter Home Wanted Strange No Matter What Skates Ice Skating

Author:Dorothy Hamill

“Nightmares are a strange thing. Your worst fear is sometimes something you enjoy thinking about, for some strange reason. I don't know why that is, but it's some kind of fantasy that people play out. "What would I do to protect my children? I'd do anything." And then, you watch it play out. I'm petrified of such a thing.”

People Thinking Knows Kind Children Sometimes Reason Play Enjoy Watches Fantasy Worst Strange Protect My Children Nightmare Strange Things Worst Fear

Author:Ethan Hawke

“Once the script is done, I put it aside for a month. I start thinking of all the films that have influenced me, which I have liked for different reasons, and not necessarily the look, but films that have moved me. Some very strange films came to mind.”

Thinking Mind Looks Different Reason Done Film Strange Months Moved Scripts

Author:Deepa Mehta

“If I could get any semblance of, not really anonymity, but control over my public image, that would be nice. But no, I think it's impossible [to maintain that], for one thing. I don't think anyone can do that, apart from Denzel Washington. It's a strange place that the film industry is at, where you can just play superhero after superhero.”

Ifs Thinking Play Would Be Film Can Do Nice Impossible One Thing Strange Industry If I Could Being Nice Superhero Anonymity Film Industry Semblance Strange Places Denzel Public Image

Author:Robert Pattinson

“Black and white is much closer to the condition of dreaming. It links you to the subconscious and I think that was part of the great appeal of movies originally.. this strange otherness.”

Thinking Dream Black White Conditions Strange Appeals Links Black And White Subconscious Otherness

Author:John Boorman

“American Horror Story re-energized me; it re-energized my career. There’s no shame in recognizing that. It’s exposed me to a whole new generation, which is a little strange. I’m not used to young people thinking I’m cool.”

People Thinking Littles Whole Stories Young Used Careers Generations Strange Horror Shame Exposed Recognizing New Generation Horror Stories American Horror Story

Author:Jessica Lange

“I never thought anything was strange in Puerto Rico other than the big mosquitos; because I was born there, nothing was really foreign to me. I think what I saw strange coming to L.A. was that a lot of people are a little bit two-faced. In Puerto Rico, you don't get that.”

People Thinking Littles Two Bigs Bits Born Saws Strange Little Bit Puerto Rico Rico

Author:Joyce Giraud

“There are times when I get through the day by looking around the office and thinking, 'My God, aren't the natives here strange.'”

Thinking Strange Office

Author:Genevieve Bell

“I love to sing. I don't think it's strange for singers to act, or painters to sculpt. I don't want to ever feel like I'm cornered into one expression of creativity because I'm successful at making films or being an actor. I guess it's best to not paint yourself into that corner.”

Thinking Want Feels Film Actors Creativity Successful Strange Expression Paint Corners Singers Painter Cornered

Author:Scarlett Johansson

“I think that it's important not to take [acting] too seriously. It's all pretend. It's a strange job.”

Thinking Important Jobs Acting Strange

Author:Michael Pitt

“It's just strange to think that so much of our enjoyment from sports comes from the elevation of arbitrary differences.”

Thinking Sports Differences Strange Enjoyment Arbitrary Elevation

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“There's a booming, rotating, never sleeping city in the center of my brain and no body can come in and I can't escape. I have a strange sense of pride that my brain works that way, but I'm also terrified of what would happen if I ever tried to think in another way.”

Ifs Thinking Way I Can Body Happens Sleep Cities Brain Strange Pride Terrified Another Way Never Sleep Rotating

Author:Halsey

“You can't just play crazy. It makes you push yourself to stay in the realm of reality. And when you do that, it's a lot funnier. That's my favorite, when you think it's a real strange person and not just someone being wacky.”

Thinking Persons Real Play Reality Crazy Strange My Favorite Realms Push Yourself Wacky Strange Person

Author:Melissa McCarthy

“Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also seems to regard himself as existing on a detached plane of observation, exempt (save in moments of avid crisis) from the strange whims of humanity en masse.”

Thinking Humans Moments Seems Humanity Existence Conditions Strange Regard Crisis Curiosity Observation Curious Planes Detached Whim Frailty Avid

Author:Christopher Morley

“Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.”

Thinking Men Humans Age Spirit Strange Lays Lust Human Spirit

Book:Christopher Morley's omnibus: an excursion among the books of Christopher Morley

Source: Christopher Morley's omnibus: an excursion among the books of Christopher Morley

“I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.”

Thinking Has Beens Past Enjoy Interesting Gone Strange Periods Creating Photograph Atmosphere Fascinating Slips Surreal Most Interesting Ambience

Author:Kate Atkinson

“Without laughter life on our planet would be intolerable. So important is laughter to us that humanity highly rewards members of one of the most unusual professions on earth, those who make a living by inducing laughter in others. This is very strange if you stop to think of it: that otherwise sane and responsible citizens should devote their professional energies to causing others to make sharp, explosive barking-like exhalations.”

Ifs Thinking Should Important Would Be Earth Humanity Energy Strange Planets Citizens Members Laughter Responsible Rewards Profession Unusual Sane Our Planet Explosives

Book:Funny people

Source: Funny people

“Stupid women, and all are stupid, think the first winning of the man the final victory. Then they settle down and grow fat, and stale, and dead, and heartbroken. Alas, they are so stupid. But you, little infant-woman with your first victory, you must make your love-life an unending chain of victories. Each day you must win your man again. And when you have won the last victory, when you can find no more to win, then ends love. Finis is written, and your man wanders in strange gardens.”

Source: The Valley of the Moon: Classic American Literature

“'Twas strange that one so young should thus concern His brain about the action of the sky; If you think 'twas philosophy that this did, I can't help thinking puberty assisted.”

Ifs Thinking Should I Can Philosophy Helping Action Young Brain Sky Atheism Strange Concern Puberty

Author:Lord Byron

“I did a lot of strange things. But I am a bad Catholic that's for sure. Although I think it's difficult to believe in evil.”

Thinking Believe Evil Difficult Strange Catholic Strange Things

Author:Lars von Trier

“The way I've described Helen's sort of rigorous honesty I just think he also has tremendously. It's very strange... he just has this sort of way of making it happen really. You're not really aware of being directed, so much as being a part of this thing.”

Thinking Way Happens Honesty Strange Helen

Author:Colin Firth

“Years ago, I was thinking about this type of character and what happens when you've lived in this sort of strange, surreal world where it's parties all the time and then you don't get to live there anymore. What do you do with the rest of your life?”

Thinking World Years Character Happens Party Strange Type Years Ago Real World Rest Of Your Life Surreal

Author:Anna Faris

“There are clues in the script... he will say "I think drugs are immoral"'... but the guy who says that kills, tortures, pimps and has whores working for him. There is this strange morality going on, which is rather like the Mafia.”

Thinking Guy Strange Morality Drug Scripts Torture Clue Immoral Mafia Pimp

Author:David Suchet

“I think it's kind of strange when people talk about how hyped-up the movie is. It almost sets you up for a bigger fall.”

People Thinking Kind Fall Strange Bigger

Author:Jonah Hill

“If you can mix Hilary Duff and Gary Oldman into the same actor, that's my goal. I know it's strange to think about, but that's the goal.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Actors Goal Strange Gary

Author:Shia LaBeouf

“But before any of the small appliances who may be listening to this tale should begin to think that they might do the same thing, let them be warned: ELECTRICITY IS VERY DANGEROUS. Never play with old batteries! Never put your plug in a strange socket! And if you are in any doubt about the voltage of the current where you are living, ask a major appliance.”

Source: The brave little toaster: a bedtime story for small appliances

“Sometimes I'll read things in the script and think, "That's not how humans behave," or "I don't understand how to do that role and make it seem like I'm not some kind of strange alien or on a sitcom." I don't get it, and when I feel that way, I have to listen to my instinct. My initial instinct does lead me in a direction that I can trust.”

Thinking Way Feels Humans Kind Doe I Can Sometimes Seems Roles Strange Instinct Scripts Aliens Behave Initials Sitcom Leading Me

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“When you're dressed up as David Bowie, with your eyebrows completely bleached, and you're doing this kind of strange dance with Paul McCartney while singing "Rebel Rebel" in the middle of the Met ball, and Madonna's looking at you . . . I was just thinking, It's become a bit weird.”

Thinking Kind Bits Middle Strange Mets Singing Balls Rebel Eyebrows Dressed Up Bowie

Author:Florence Welch

“The Internet is manic. It's very strange. I don't think it's healthy. They should outlaw posting comments! It's a bummer to go somewhere to get information or buy tickets and you encounter profanity everywhere you go.”

Thinking Should Information Strange Internet Healthy Encounters Comment Tickets Outlaw Manic Profanity Bummer

Author:Sufjan Stevens

“I think that we are in a very strange time, when everybody is thinking about what is going to happen, and everybody is kind of cleaning house a little bit. In the fashion world, we are doing something similar. We are taking the fake out and being a little bit more real and simple.”

Thinking World Kind Littles Real Happens House Bits Simple Fashion Strange Little Bit Fake Cleaning Fashion World Clean House Strange Times

Author:Alber Elbaz

“I think that if you use something from you life in fiction, it metamorphosizes into something strange and different. Afterward it is hard to tell what actually was part of your life and what is part of the story of the fictional character.”

Ifs Thinking Different Hard Character Stories Use Fiction Strange Fictional Character

Author:Marge Piercy

“I'm still happy with the way Einstein's Dreams came out. That book came out of a single inspiration. I really felt like I was not creating the words, that I was hearing the words. That someone else was speaking the words to me and I was just writing them down. It was a very strange experience. That can happen with a short book. I don't think it could happen with a long book.”

Thinking Way Writing Long Stills Book Dream Inspiration Happens Felt Strange Creating Hearing Long Book

Author:Alan Lightman

“Think of how strange we'd look if all the cuts, burns, scrapes, bruises, scratches, bumps, gashes, and scabs we ever had suddenly reappeared on our bodies at the same time.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Body Cutting Strange Scratches Bumps Bruises Scabs

Book:Napalm & Silly Putty

Source: Napalm & Silly Putty

“It's strange to think that culture is simply a matter of millions of files flying around, but we now think in terms of networks for everything.”

Thinking Matter Culture Term Millions Strange Flying Files

Author:DJ Spooky

“I hope my talent has something to do with it. I just think this business is so crazy. I obviously do the best I can, and the directors I admire see something in me. But this is a strange business, and there are people who are incredibly talented who never make it, who never get these opportunities. So that's why I say I'm lucky. I don't feel that I'm not talented - I think I am talented - but I also think I'm very lucky.”

People Thinking Feels I Can Opportunity Crazy Talent Strange Lucky Directors Admire Do The Best

Author:Jennifer Jason Leigh

“There may not be a hell, but those who judge may create one. I think people are over-taught. They are over-taught everything. You have to find out by what happens to you, how you will react. I'll have to use a strange term here... "good." I don't know where it comes from, but I feel that there's an ultimate strain of goodness born in each of us. I don't believe in God, but I believe in this "goodness" like a tube running through our bodies. It can be nurtured. It's always magic, when on a freeway packed with traffic, a stranger makes room for you to change lanes... it gives you hope.”

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