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“I left L.A. and moved to Cleveland for four years in the early 2000s or whatever. I came back and thought that everything had changed. I was like, 'Oh my God, I don't think I ever fit in here. And wait, who are all of these celebrities that are not actors? Where did all of the actors go?”

Thinking Years Actors Left Waiting Four Changed Fit Moved Four Years Cleveland

Author:Monica Potter

“I'm pretty content with what I have, but the one thing that I don't have is something like the iPod - but PC-based. I think that would be cool.”

Thinking Would Be One Thing Being Cool Ipods

Author:Oren Peli

“I feel like when you do things with such a small budget, it actually makes you be more creative... and allows you to concentrate more on the story and the characters. I think that there is something about dirty, gritty and raw filmmaking that makes it feel a little more natural and makes it easier to connect with the action.”

Thinking Feels Littles Character Stories Action Natural Creative Easier Dirty Budgets Filmmaking

Author:Oren Peli

“I don't know. I think that horror, in general, is fairly popular. It's definitely popular in film. There's just not a lot of good horror on TV, so whenever there is good horror on TV, people rush to it.”

People Thinking Film Tvs Horror

Author:Oren Peli

“I think the traditional explanation is that demons just find someone, they pick on them and try to break down their spirit so they can... take control of their bodies. Why exactly? I don't know.”

Thinking Knows Trying Body Spirit Break Picks Traditional Explanation Demon Breaking Down Take Control

Author:Oren Peli

“I think the tricky balance, the most important thing more than the horror is to have a compelling story, compelling drama, a show about great characters that you care about and you want to come back every week to see what they're up to.”

Thinking Want Important Character Stories Shows Care Week Balance Drama Horror Important Things Compelling Tricky Great Character

Author:Oren Peli

“I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I don't like people who just follow one line and that's it - that's why I could never be in a sitcom, I don't think. They're not intriguing enough for me.”

People Thinking Enough Character Left Lines Fields Complexes Unexpected Intriguing Sitcom One Line Left Field

Author:Pete Postlethwaite

“As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.”

Thinking Years Use Young Next Quality Boys Needed Discipline Chairs Dozen Neurotic Cheaper Use Of Time

Author:Ridley Pearson

“I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.”

Thinking Two Body Able Certain Three Voice Fiction Five Paper Profession Fiction Writers Schizophrenic

Author:Ridley Pearson

“I think it's funny how excited people can get about things I say that don't have anything to do with music. I made a disparaging comment about McDonald's on Twitter once and people flipped out on me.”

People Thinking Made Excited Comment Mcdonalds Flipped Disparaging

Author:Ron Pope

“I think that people will always want music; I think that the form that they will get it in, or distributed to them from, and the price they pay for it is what's up in question.”

People Thinking Want Form Pay

Author:Ronald Perelman

“I have a lot of fun playing a model on television, and I love being an actress. I don't think I could ever handle that world.”

Thinking World Fun Love Is Television Models Actresses Handle

Author:Sara Paxton

“I'm always looking for a new thing that really terrifies me that I think I can't do it and accomplish that.”

Thinking I Can Accomplish New Things

Author:Sara Paxton

“I didn't even get a computer till I was 16, so I didn't have Internet when I was in middle school and beginning of high school. I didn't think to be looking things up and looking at message boards saying whether people liked me or not.”

People Thinking School Middle Internet Computer Messages High School Boards Middle School

Author:Sara Paxton

“I think it's very important for people to not judge the people you're playing. You have to find a way to love them because their story is theirs. I just don't think there would be any use in that.”

People Thinking Way Important Stories Use Would Be Judging

Author:Sarah Paulson

“I was constantly, always and forever, trying to perform the musical 'Annie' for anyone who would listen, and I have a terrible singing voice. It was the first thing that made me think I wanted to be an actress.”

Thinking Trying Firsts Made Wanted Voice Forever Terrible Singing Musical Actresses Annie Always And Forever

Author:Sarah Paulson

“Sometimes I think on television, you use maybe a tenth of what you are able to do. So it’s nice to go, Well, I’m gonna take two months and reinvest in acting and storytelling. You don’t get to do that on television.”

Thinking Wells Two Sometimes Use Able Acting Nice Television Months Storytelling Two Months

Author:Sarah Paulson

“The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you think about it, journalism is one of the pillars on which our society is perched.”

People Ifs Thinking America Realizing Quality Journalism Dependent Our Society Quality Of Life Pillars

Author:Scott Pelley

“I watch a lot of TV, and I'd like to think what I watch is good TV.”

Thinking Watches Tvs

Author:Scott Porter

“Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who succeed learn to think and act like 'independent operators.' I think people who are technically 'employees' have to think this way as well. The company is not looking out for you.”

People Thinking Way Giving Wells Artist Company Creative Fields Succeed Picks Independent Entrepreneur Medical Employee Paychecks Operators Medical Insurance

Author:Steven Pressfield

“No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families.”

Thinking Needs Term Industry Safe Capacity Resilience Our Family Rely Inner Strength Occupation Immune Rely Upon Resourcefulness

Author:Steven Pressfield

“If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.”

Ifs Thinking Men Would Be Able Culture Acceptance Men And Women Compromise

Author:Tamora Pierce

“I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.”

Thinking Knows Writing Firsts Persons Stories Novel Written Thirds Short Story First Person Third Person Thinking First

Author:Tamora Pierce

“Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out now that need a lot more editing. Fantasy got to be so popular that people began to think 'We don't need to be as diligent with the razor blade,' but they do.”

People Thinking Needs I Can Book Problem Fantasy Novel Boxes Chocolate Editing Blades Razors Diligent Fantasy Books Box Of Chocolates

Author:Tamora Pierce

“The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Kind Made Done Enough Jobs Fantasy Add Corners Setting Settings Appeals Extras Dimensions What If Rooted Thinking What If

Author:Tamora Pierce

“Some traders still think that a computer could not trade as well as they can.”

Thinking Wells Stills Computer Trade Traders

Author:Thomas Peterffy

“I see no point in exchanging something that I understand, know, love and think will have a great future for something else that I know much less about.”

Thinking Knows No Point Exchanging Great Future

Author:Thomas Peterffy

“I think that for some people faith is good - they have something to draw to.”

People Thinking Draws

Author:Aaron Paul

“Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?”

Thinking Years Children Wanted America Moving Grows Sides Animal Boys Growing Up Nice Years Ago Twenties East Profession Jungle Columbus Wild Animal East Side

Author:Abraham Polonsky

“Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.”

Ifs Thinking Different Sometimes Hard Chance Results Mistake If I Could Making Mistakes Mentality Good Chance Different Mentality

Author:Alain Prost

“I think children in general have a very hard time - at least I did - expressing any pain because I didn't want to hurt the people that I loved.”

People Thinking Want Children Hard Pain Hurt Hard Times

Author:Aleksa Palladino

“I think songs and visuals are so evocative of each other.”

Thinking Song Visuals

Author:Aleksa Palladino

“Even though New York may be a more inspiring city, I get more inspired thinking of L.A., in a way. My life there was so much more simple in mind, and quiet.”

Thinking Way Mind May Simple Cities New York Quiet Inspired

Author:Aleksa Palladino

“I think in L.A., in terms of the music scene, it's a really strange place. It's really hard to get the feeling that something's happening, or the feeling that something can make it out of there.”

Thinking Hard Feelings Term Strange Scene Happenings Strange Places

Author:Aleksa Palladino

“I think real life couples on screen are kind of deadly. For the most part, they're kind of deadly. You'd be surprised. Unless they're falling in love onscreen for the first time, you don't have quite the same energy for some reason.”

Thinking Firsts Kind Real Reason Fall Energy Couple First Time Falling In Love Screens Real Life

Author:Amy Poehler

“If they don't think, people act senselessly.”

People Ifs Thinking

Author:Andrei Platonov

“I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.”

Thinking Writing Book Audience Sells

Author:Ann Patchett

“You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.”

Ifs Thinking Film Parent Walks Effects Wind Huge Adults Eight Dinner Brilliant Kurosawa

Author:Ann Patchett

“I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.”

Thinking Way Persons Able Quality Rough Ruined Admirable

Author:Anna Paquin

“I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.”

People Thinking Guy Football Nfl Good People Good Football

Author:Bill Parcells

“There's not enough money in the world to get me singing 'Because We Want To' again. I wouldn't do it. I think Beyonce Knowles got a couple of million for a private show but I would be happy to turn it down.”

Thinking World Want Enough Shows Would Be Turns Millions Couple Singing Beyonce

Author:Billie Piper

“When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.”

Thinking Should Remember Audience Should Have Majority Awards You Re The Best

Author:Brad Paisley

“I had a baby with no pain medicine, mainly because most people I talked to didn't think I'd be able to do it. So there!”

People Thinking Able Pain Baby Medicine No Pain

Author:Busy Philipps

“We didn't name Birdie before she was born. When she came out I said, 'I think we gotta go with Birdie, I think that's her name.'”

Thinking Said Names Born

Author:Busy Philipps

“From time to time I think I made some errors in judgment, but I have some really fashionable friends and I feel I've cultivated my own sense of style and what I feel comfortable with over the years.”

Thinking Feels Years Made My Own Style Comfortable Judgment Errors Fashionable

Author:Busy Philipps

“I don't think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn't been injured.”

Ifs Thinking Games Mentality Injured

Author:Candace Parker

“I think it's great that young girls have the WNBA to look up to now.”

Thinking Looks Young Girl Look Up Wnba

Author:Candace Parker

“I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.”

“People think being Elvira is a lot of fun - and it is - but I was doing a lot more bizarre stuff before then, just being a dancer and a showgirl and traveling around Italy in a band and working for Playboy Club, and later being a model and meeting a million and one people and being kind of a groupie... It's all been really interesting.”

People Thinking Kind Fun Stuff Interesting Millions Band Models Meetings Clubs Dancer Be Kind Just Being Bizarre Really Interesting Playboy Groupie

Author:Cassandra Peterson

“Work takes up a lot of my brain space. So when I work, it's one thing. I don't have a lot of time to think about dating.”

Thinking Space Brain One Thing Dating Working It Time To Think

Author:Chris Pine

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