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“I think the movie business and film crews are a little bit like the circus, in that we travel around like a pack and we're a big family for a finite period of time. We roll into someplace, cause a bunch of damage, and then roll out.”

Thinking Littles Bigs Film Causes Bits Periods Little Bit Bunch Damage Packs Crew Finite Circus Movie Business Big Families Film Crew

Author:Francis Lawrence

“Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.”

Thinking Years Fit

Author:Gary Larson

“A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness.”

Thinking Humans Long Important Beautiful Form Roles Long Time Ugly Tendencies Categories Long Time Ago Unimportant Lumps Interconnectedness

Author:Gary Larson

“With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.”

Thinking Church Space Design Plates Volume Spoons Always Thinking Skyscraper Voluptuous

Author:Greg Lynn

“I think a composer is always interested in his last work.”

Thinking Lasts Composer

Author:Gyorgy Ligeti

“Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.”

Thinking Stills Results Scientist Tables Philosopher Proven Scientific Knowledge

Book:The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers

Source: The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers

“I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut.”

Thinking Needs Next Cutting Periods Taxes Congress Priorities Tax Cuts Payroll Payroll Tax

Author:Jacob Lew

“I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues.”

Thinking Issues Urgency Sense Of Urgency

Author:Jacob Lew

“America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.”

Thinking Doe America Bigger Relate Our Society Arena Governance Great Leader Great Leadership

Author:Jim Leach

“I think America is going to have to think through whether it wants to uplift the political dialogue or advance an approach that divides and, frankly, can lead to violence.”

Thinking Want America Political Violence Approach Dialogue Uplifting Divides Political Dialogue

Author:Jim Leach

“I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.”

Thinking World Deals Knowing Reader Excuse Not Knowing No Excuses American Poetry

Author:James Laughlin

“I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in my case. I re-read Pound a great deal, I re-read Williams, I re-read Thomas, I re-read the people whom I cam to love when I was at what you might call a formative stage.”

People Thinking Might Deals Cases Stage Pounds

Author:James Laughlin

“I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.”

Thinking Years Kind I Can Ends Seems Five Periods Six Years Ago Concrete Dead Ends

Author:James Laughlin

“I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian.”

Thinking Mean Seems Reading Individual Poet Ordinary Say Anything Pedestrians Poetry Reading

Author:James Laughlin

“I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Whole Reading Differences Poet Personality Reader Sitting

Author:James Laughlin

“I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.”

Thinking Wells Enough Individual Ability Interesting Attention Poet Depends Shapes Agree Impulse Visuals Bad Things

Author:James Laughlin

“Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.”

Ifs Thinking Men Sometimes Window Plastic Surgery Glimpse Plastic Surgery

Author:Vince Neil

“I think New York is a really wonderful place to raise a child. There's so much available, and so much diversity and culture, lots of things to see and do. My whole family is here.”

Thinking Children Whole Culture Wonderful New York Diversity Raises Available Whole Family Wonderful Places

Author:Ana Ortiz

“I like to think of myself as a physical actor.”

Thinking Actors

Author:David Oyelowo

“I think 'Gasland' is the doorway for a lot of people to see something happening in their backyard and realize the national and global implications.”

People Thinking Realizing Happenings Implications Doorways Backyards

Author:Josh Fox

“I admire many actors, though I don't think there's anyone whose career I would want to mirror sort of by the beats. What I'm really looking to do is constantly defy expectations. I'm very curious to see if you can actually have a character actor and a movie star's career combined.”

Ifs Thinking Want Character Actors Stars Careers Beats Expectations Mirrors Admire Curious Movie Star Character Actors

Author:David Oyelowo

“I think it's vital to have something outside your acting to keep you rooted in the real world, and help you fill the vacuum. If you have nothing else, it can be unhealthy. For me being a Christian has been invaluable: it simply means acting isn't the centre of my life.”

Ifs Thinking World Mean Has Beens Real Helping Christian Acting Real World Rooted Centre Vacuums Unhealthy Invaluable

Author:David Oyelowo

“I think we're in an era of unprecedented dominance by corporations. I think people understand that deeply; I don't think that's even questioned.”

People Thinking Eras Corporations Unprecedented Dominance

Author:Josh Fox

“Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I commend the guys that do. I've done it. But I also think that you can pick great songs outside that you didn't write that can help your career.”

People Thinking Writing Done Helping Artist Guy Song Order Careers Picks Write Your Own

Author:Jake Owen

“Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's great, but George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, they didn't write everything they recorded, and they've had major, major careers. I think it's all about the best song.”

Thinking Want Writing Artist Song Careers Majors Brooks Kenny

Author:Jake Owen

“I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.”

Thinking Persons Guy Punk Bad Guys Good Person

Author:Adam Oates

“I think L.A. is beautiful.”

Thinking Beautiful

Author:Adepero Oduye

“I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business.”

Thinking Enjoy Talent Mediums Great Talent

Author:Alex O'Loughlin

“If there's anything I think that you've seen about me, it's that I'm the rebellious girl.”

Ifs Thinking Girl Rebellious

Author:Aubrey O'Day

“I know that everybody is so obsessed with this idea of fame, and they think that I'm obsessed. In all honesty, I'm just doing me.”

Thinking Knows Ideas Honesty Fame Obsessed Doing Me Just Doing Me

Author:Aubrey O'Day

“I mean, a lot of the times I think I'm seen as a bad girl, and I think that's because I'm so open.”

Thinking Mean Girl Bad Girl

Author:Aubrey O'Day

“I think a lot of people settle with comfort. I've kinda pushed my whole life not to do that. There's nothing wrong with settling, it's definitely an easier life than the one I've chosen to live.”

People Thinking Whole Easier Comfort Whole Life Chosen Settling Easier Life

Author:Aubrey O'Day

“I don't think there are beautiful women out there trying to lure men into any kind of conspiracy. I think people are out there just trying to meet someone new and interesting and live in the real world.”

People Thinking Men World Trying Kind Real Beautiful Interesting Real World Conspiracy Beautiful Women Lure

Author:Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

“If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.”

Ifs Thinking Law Growth Views Civilization Wander Evolve Tribes

Author:John Boyd Orr

“Before 'Wings' came out, I told a few people that at the end of book one, readers should think Laurel made the right choice. Then, at the end of 'Spells,' they should understand why Laurel made the choice she did.”

People Thinking Should Made Book Ends Choices Reader Wings Spells Laurels Right Choices

Author:Aprilynne Pike

“I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.”

Thinking Leader Democracy Groups Advantage Dependent

Author:Azim Premji

“I think that any wealth creates a sense of trusteeship... it is characteristic of the new generation which has created wealth to have some amount of responsibility for it.”

Thinking Wealth Responsibility Generations Amount Characteristics New Generation

Author:Azim Premji

“Everybody tends to think I'm crazy, which is the biggest problem in my life.”

Thinking Problem Crazy

Author:Cat Power

“I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I love, but they're not friends with each other.”

People Thinking World Life Is Mets Hardest Hardest Thing Not Friends

Author:Cat Power

“People tend to think I'm insane, and I'm really tired of it.”

People Thinking Tired Insane

Author:Cat Power

“For me, the moment the mic is on and it's rolling, it's impossible to vocally relax for some reason. But one day, I'm going to be able to sing the way I sang when I was a little kid, completely open and free. That's, I think, the one thing that's changed: Growing older, I'm not ashamed to hear my voice.”

Thinking Way Littles Reason Moments Kids Able Voice Growing Impossible One Thing Changed One Day Ashamed Relax Rolling Little Kid Growing Old Growing Older Mics

Author:Cat Power

“I think I can do more inside the Republican Party to keep it in the center of the road. That's where Eisenhower was. And I'm an unabashed Eisenhower Republican.”

Thinking I Can Can Do Party Republican Republican Party

Author:Charles H. Percy

“My first professional acting job was in 'Hair' during the Vietnam War. So I think I've always been drawn to projects with a social conscience.”

Thinking Firsts War Jobs Social Acting Hair Projects Conscience Vietnam Vietnam War

Author:Clarke Peters

“If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.”

People Ifs Thinking Care Company Painting Obligation If You Care

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“I think that the world is in the middle of a huge transition that we have to make to renewable energy. We have to transition away from fossil fuels very, very quickly.”

Thinking World Energy Middle Huge Fuel Transition Fossils Fossil Fuel Renewable Energy Burning Fossil Fuels

Author:Josh Fox

“I feel more comfortable when I'm somebody else, I think. When I'm taking a picture as myself, the whole idea of taking a headshot, to me, feels very false.”

Thinking Feels Ideas Whole Comfortable Headshots

Author:Missi Pyle

“I grew up in Middle America and I don't think my family was very funny, but I watched 'The Princess Bride.' I always wanted to be an actor. I didn't know anything about it. I'd never seen any plays or anything and I watched that movie over and over and over again.”

Thinking Knows Play Wanted America Actors Middle Grew Grew Up My Family Princess Brides Princess Bride Middle America

Author:Missi Pyle

“People will go into an audition and a casting situation, and they'll see someone across the room that's perhaps slightly famous, or famous, and they think, 'Oh God, I'm not gonna get the part.”

People Thinking Rooms Situation Auditions Casting

Author:Missi Pyle

“Size 8 is great! That is my new motto. I was a 14 and 6 and 12. I think it's healthy. I like to eat, drink and be merry!”

Thinking Drink Healthy Size Motto Merry

Author:Monica Potter

“Yeah, I think there are a lot of things about Cleveland that I miss. Los Angeles is a funny place to live.”

Thinking Missing Yeah Los Angeles Places To Live Cleveland

Author:Monica Potter

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