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“Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere.”

People Thinking Want States House White White House Going Out Secretary

Author:Sally Quinn

“I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.”

Thinking Roles Growing Civilized Civilized Society Women's Roles

Author:Sally Quinn

“I think it's like, you know, you can't get ahead of yourself, because no amount of success or exposure or opportunity is going to really matter or be ultimately fulfilling unless you can be totally present in what you're doing right now.”

Thinking Knows Matter Opportunity Like You Amount Right Now Fulfilling Exposure Get Ahead Doing Right

Author:Zachary Quinto

“Actresses are mental on the whole. But I think I'm pretty normal.”

Thinking Whole Normal Actresses

Author:Alexandra Roach

“I think the most important thing is to have fun, and not to take things too seriously. Once you start doing that, then you'll start to crumble.”

Thinking Important Fun Important Things Having Fun

Author:Alexandra Roach

“The Wire,' I was such a fan of that show the first season - I think that's the best-written show on TV.”

Thinking Firsts Shows Written Fans Tvs Seasons Wire

Author:Amy Ryan

“You know, I don't think, you know, therapy never ends, really.”

Thinking Knows Ends Therapy

Author:Amy Ryan

“I'm not saying standardized tests are the worst ever, but there's an in-between and I don't think we're there yet. That's what I mean when I say I have an issue with it. There's no way a kid can learn in a class with 40 to 45 people. I had the power to get out of that system and pursue things that I wanted to do and I did that.”

People Thinking Way Mean Kids Wanted Class Issues Worst Tests Pursue

Author:Ashley Rickards

“I think that you never fall out of love with somebody, you just let go and move on.”

Thinking Moving Fall Letting Go Falling In Love Moving On Letting Go And Moving On Moving Forward In Life Just Let Go Moving On In Life Moving On Love Love And Letting Go

Author:Ashley Rickards

“As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character, you're taking a liberty that you don't really have unless you're life is that incredibly close to the character.”

Thinking Important Character Life Is Actors Liberty

Author:Ashley Rickards

“I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I would like to read.”

Thinking Writing Trying Kind Stories Audience

Author:Brent Runyon

“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

“I think even before I knew I wanted to be a rapper, I wanted to be an entertainer. I was really into Michael Jackson as a kid.”

Thinking Kids Wanted Rapper Entertainers

Author:Chance the Rapper

“I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just that. People wanna romanticize it and say, 'There's two sides to it, and it's a beautiful love/hate story of violence and music.' But it's really just a very scummy place where people don't have respect for other people's lives.”

People Thinking Knows Two Stories Beautiful Hate Sides Violence Chicago Respecting Others Two Sides Love Hate Beautiful Love

Author:Chance the Rapper

“I think it's so dope that I'm here in Chicago and contributing to the music scene that's thriving. People are so happy Chicago's shining that everyone is willing to say 'I represent Chicago.' That wasn't always the case.”

People Thinking Cases Willing Scene Shining Chicago Contributing Dope

Author:Chance the Rapper

“It wasn't until I left that I realised it's not weird to grow up in certain cities and, by the age of 27 or 28, for all of your friends to still be alive. I can think of a lot of kids that I knew in Chicago who were supposed to grow up but didn't.”

Thinking Stills I Can Kids Age Certain Left Grows Cities Growing Up Alive Chicago Realised

Author:Chance the Rapper

“The weird thing about rap is that you don't get compared in the same way that athletes do, even though it's probably the most competitive sport in music. In basketball, they look at a player and say: 'This guy was the best in his prime at this sport.' But in rap it's not until you're dead or retired that people think about it like that.”

People Thinking Way Looks Guy Sports Player Basketball Athlete Rap Prime This Guy Retired Weird Things Competitive Sports

Author:Chance the Rapper

“Part of ego is displaying the ego. I've got ego, and I think I'm really good. But maybe I fall down in trying to sell it to people.”

People Thinking Trying Fall Ego Sells Falling Down

Author:Edward Ruscha

“Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval method of working. I'll go back and use something that disgusted me 15 years ago but that I had enough sense to think about. Some artists change dramatically. I see my work more like history being written.”

Thinking Years Art Done Enough Use Artist Written Waste Years Ago Method Possession Had Enough Disgusted

Author:Edward Ruscha

“I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.”

Thinking Film Ordinary Ordinary Things

Author:Eric Rohmer

“I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.”

Thinking Art Repose High Art

Author:Eric Rohmer

“Every day I get to 'Think' and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable mass adoption of electric cars, helping major cities reduce congestion and pollution, to developing new micro-finance programs that help tiny businesses get started in markets such as Brazil, India, Africa.”

Thinking Helping Energy Cities Car Majors Mass Program India Tiny Finance Developing Pollution Electric Adoption Brazil Accommodate Renewable Energy Grids Congestion Electric Car

Author:Ginni Rometty

“At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.”

Thinking Way Ideas Picks All Time New Ideas Twitching

Author:Ian Rankin

“I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.”

Ifs Thinking Hard Stories Use Opportunity Social Deals Technology Media Social Media Traditional Publishers New Technology Proactive

Author:Ian Rankin

“I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.”

Thinking Stills Kids Games Grows Growing Up Refuse Imaginary Imaginary Friend Just Kids

Author:Ian Rankin

“A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. You've got to be seen as dark and slightly dangerous. But I'm not like that and I've realised that I don't need to put that on. People will buy the books whether they see a photo of you dressed in black or not.”

People Thinking Needs Trying Book Black Dark Dangerous Crime Realised

Author:Ian Rankin

“I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.”

Thinking Particular Sparks Favourite Kate Ruth Welsh

Author:Ian Rankin

“I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.”

Thinking Writing Years Book Bigs Used Novel Taken Heard Serious Eating Nine Nine Years

Author:Ian Rankin

“I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking about something from the past. How has society changed, how has policing changed, have we changed philosophically, psychologically, culturally, spiritually?”

Thinking Want Past Changed Reader Now And Then Scotland

Author:Ian Rankin

“I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was 'I tend to make it up as I go along.' I'm not sure that's brilliant advice.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Book Class Creative Advice Approach Brilliant Not Sure Creative Writing Suitable

Author:Ian Rankin

“My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.”

Thinking Giving Firsts Book Enough Dream Half Novel Five Giving Up Six Dozen Publishers Turned Down

Author:Ian Rankin

“You'd be naive if you think you are going to retain any control once you option a character to TV.”

Ifs Thinking Character Tvs Naive

Author:Kathy Reichs

“At first I probably seem very abrupt, but I like efficiency. There's work and there's play, and I always think: 'Let's get the work over with so we can thoroughly enjoy the play.”

Thinking Firsts Play Seems Enjoy Efficiency

Author:Kathy Reichs

“I think when you're an actor and you're drawing on your emotions all the time, you need to be quite steady.”

Thinking Needs Actors Emotion Drawing Steady

Author:Kelly Reilly

“I'm a theater actress. I love rehearsal. I could have six weeks of rehearsal and think it's not enough. But on film, you don't get that luxury.”

Thinking Enough Film Week Six Theater Actresses Luxury Rehearsal

Author:Kelly Reilly

“When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not apply to seventeenth-century Puritanism.”

Thinking Doe Term Religious Century Hypocrisy Victorian Slang Puritanism

Book:Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were

Source: Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were

“I think 'growing up' would mean that you are incredibly tolerant and easygoing, liked everything, curious about the world because you weren't so egotistically driven.”

Thinking World Mean Growing Up Growing Driven Curious

Author:Louise Rennison

“Certainly there's a huge appeal to the '60s, because it was such a big turning point to everyone. It was the era of change, the boiling point. People rebelled against things - the hippies, the feminists, the protesters. All these things just built up and boiled over. I think people can relate to that today.”

People Thinking Bigs Today Huge Built Feminist Eras Relate Appeals Hippie Turning Points Boiling Boiling Point

Author:Margot Robbie

“I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing.”

Thinking Way Television Shots Bad Things Aspire Cinematic

Author:Matthew Rhys

“I've done a number of projects where people go, 'This is your breakthrough role,' so I've stopped thinking that.”

People Thinking Done Numbers Roles Projects Breakthrough

Author:Matthew Rhys

“I think my mother would be very happy if I found a nice Welsh girl.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Mother Girl Found Nice Very Happy Welsh

Author:Matthew Rhys

“I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.”

Thinking Lasts Five Minutes Notion Silly Farmers Five Minutes

Author:Matthew Rhys

“In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very well.”

Thinking Wells Reality Perfect Spy

Author:Matthew Rhys

“I feel comfortable here primarily because I think Los Angeles is made up of people who don't come from here, so you can find kindred spirits very easily. It's a town of gypsies.”

People Thinking Feels Made Spirit Comfortable Towns Los Angeles Gypsy Kindred Kindred Spirit

Author:Matthew Rhys

“I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of existence.”

Thinking Kind Form Sides Existence Particular Doctrine Ideology Good And Bad Darker Side

Author:Michael J. Fox

“When you think of it I haven't really done a lot of horror. It's amazing: I have done some really good ones, but I haven't done a lot of them.”

Thinking Done Havens Horror

Author:Michael Rooker

“I think you have a responsibility to the people you're making movies with, and I take that very seriously. I don't want to let up and I don't want to let down.”

People Thinking Want Responsibility Let Down

Author:Scott Rudin

“I really didn't think about song writing.”

Thinking Writing Song

Author:Adam Rich

“I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?”

Thinking Knows Trying Sound Existence Band Mature

Author:Adam Rich

“From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.”

Thinking Actors Careers

Author:Alan Rickman

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