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“It is great to add some glamour to the food industry, like television shows have done for the food world and inspiring people to work in the industry. The flip side of that is unfortunately people think that after they get their qualifications, they get their invitation to compete on 'Top Chef.”

People Thinking World Done Shows Sides Television Industry Add Chef Invitations Glamour Flip Television Shows Qualifications Food Industry

Author:Curtis Stone

“I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.”

Thinking Want Bigs Kids Cities Rich Big Cities

Author:Dan Savage

“I think I've had my fill of electoral law.”

Thinking Law

Author:Danny Strong

“I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.”

Thinking Knows Shows Actors Roles Tvs Tv Shows

Author:Danny Strong

“My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.”

Thinking Want Facts Goal Projects Genre

Author:Danny Strong

“I think 'Horace Silver' was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was a kid in St. Louis. So along with most players of my generation, I have a real affection for the music of 'Horace Silver.”

Thinking Firsts Real Kids Player Generations Heard Groups Jazz Affection Silver My Generation Back When

Author:David Sanborn

“In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual student and always look to learn something new about music, because there's always something new to learn.”

Thinking Looks Attitude Students Music Is Regard Something New Perpetual

Author:David Sanborn

“Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all music needs. Especially jazz music, since improvising is one of the cornerstones of what jazz is. And when you smooth it out, you take all the drama out of it.”

Thinking Needs Should Kind Certain Drama Jazz Tension Smooth Jazz Music Cornerstones Improvising Smooth Jazz

Author:David Sanborn

“When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.”

Thinking Different Energy Felt Born Destiny Growing Up Growing Minutes Supposed To Be Destination Texas Intangible Intangible Quality

Author:Jamie Foxx

“No one wants to know I set my alarm and get up 8, but I think it's too weird to sleep in too late.”

Thinking Knows Want Sleep Late Get Up Too Late Alarms

Author:David Spade

“I don't think I could've carried the weight that Murrow carried.”

Thinking Weight

Author:David Strathairn

“I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own culture around us to a large extent, whether it's what we're listening to, what we're watching, what we're reading - it can have very little to do with one's immediate cultural environment. We are in a global culture in that respect.”

Thinking Littles Matter Culture Reading Environment Listening

Author:David Sylvian

“I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for Ray, I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.”

Thinking Would Be Winning Projects Rays Oscars

Author:Jamie Foxx

“Everybody thinks people who promote PETA don't eat meat, but I think animals were made to be eaten.”

People Thinking Made Animal Meat Peta

Author:Dominique Swain

“I just don't think animals should be slaughtered for their fur.”

Thinking Should Animal Fur

Author:Dominique Swain

“I think President Bush tried to step up on Social Security even though the polls showed that was unpopular. He has not been successful and backed off, but I admire people who take on big problems.”

People Thinking Problem Bigs Social President Steps Successful Security Admire Social Security Polls President Bush Step Up Big Problems

Author:Donna Shalala

“I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I sure didn't expect it.”

Thinking Social Program Democrat Scales Bunch Nuts Large Scale Social Programs

Author:Donna Shalala

“It would be nice if you have a hit. But I don't think it's necessary to continue with my career at this point.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Careers Nice Being Nice

Author:Donna Summer

“But I think that I'm just a normal girl, you know.”

Thinking Knows Girl Normal

Author:Donna Summer

“I don't keep a press agent because I think people need to have a break from you.”

People Thinking Needs Break Presses Agents

Author:Donna Summer

“I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing. It literally has to earn its way through my hand.”

Thinking Knows Way Writing Hands Physical Things

Author:Elizabeth Strout

“I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.”

Thinking Want Writing Made Book Wanted Particular

Author:Elizabeth Strout

“In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the oldest state, and it's the whitest state.”

Thinking Way Writing Kind States Maine

Author:Elizabeth Strout

“Clown' was written when I couldn't find anyone who believed in me as an artist. Maybe those labels will think twice next time a young songwriter comes along.”

Thinking Young Artist Next Written Labels Songwriters Next Time Clown Think Twice

Author:Emeli Sande

“I try to speak of a love that not necessarily romantic. I think there is so much love between people and so much love people want to give but it's harder and harder these days to show that, to celebrate that, you know?”

People Thinking Knows Want Giving Trying Shows Speak Love Is Harder Celebrate These Days Much Love

Author:Emeli Sande

“My scratching I don't really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded.”

Thinking Kids Form Brain Music Is Intelligent Communicate Cells Retarded Retard Intelligent Life Brain Cells Koalas

Author:Kid Koala

“I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.”

People Thinking Humans Important Stories Sides Dark Fire Violence Fashion Human Nature Sitting Tradition Diets Cynicism Brutality Dark Side Sitting Around Staples

Author:Eric Stoltz

“Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.”

Thinking Way Needs Fun Style Tvs Baseball Entertaining Calories

Author:Gail Simmons

“There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving.”

Thinking Knows Doe Serving Chef

Author:Gail Simmons

“I think Prince should open up a little more to other artists. Just because we love Prince. Especially the old stuff - we love him to death. But if he opened up he would be something to deal with. Imagine Kanye West producing a Prince track? It would be banoodles!”

Ifs Thinking Should Littles Would Be Artist Stuff Deals Imagine West Track Old Stuff

Author:Jamie Foxx

“I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it, is 95 percent intuitive, like seat-of-the-pants, at-the-moment decisions that you can't even explain, you know?”

Thinking Knows Real Moments Process Decision Percent Understood Artistic Seats Pants Intuitive Artistic Process

Author:George Saunders

“I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.”

Thinking Littles Has Beens Done Jobs Courses Effects Strange Capitalist Engineering Engineers

Author:George Saunders

“I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we actually are very similar in our emotions and our neurology and our desires and our fears, so I think it's a nice way to neutralize that polarization.”

Thinking Knows Way Desire Emotion Fiction Nice Information Our Time Reminding Neurology Polarization

Author:George Saunders

“I was a big and un-ironic fan of Dear Abby when I was a kid in Chicago. I think I sort of internalized her. So I have this inner Abby: cranky, proper, folksy yet scathing, with a beehive hairdo. But that's my issue.”

Thinking Bigs Kids Issues Fans Dear Chicago Ironic Abby Cranky Hairdos Beehives

Author:George Saunders

“If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.”

Ifs Thinking World Kind Turns Fiction Ought Models Scales Better Than You

Author:George Saunders

“I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'?”

Thinking Should Done Helping Economy Forever Murder Suspended Helping Someone

Author:George Steinbrenner

“I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.”

Thinking World Past Artist Bits Brain Information Computer

Author:Gerald Scarfe

“I did think there were one or two referees who had a personal thing against me. It wasn't them versus Celtic - it was them against me! I just think they wanted to take me on.”

Thinking Two Wanted Take Me Versus Celtic Referee Personal Things

Author:Gordon Strachan

“I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Needs Feels Trying Matter Able Guy Player Response Strive Coaches Know It All

Author:Gordon Strachan

“I think what I've actually achieved as a manager does sometimes get a bit overlooked, because all people think about is the media side of things. They tend to forget I've not done so bad.”

People Thinking Doe Sometimes Done Bits Sides Forget Media Managers Overlooked

Author:Gordon Strachan

“I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.”

Thinking Evolve Who We Are

Author:Hilary Swank

“I think about how I'm spending my money, and I like to spend on my family.”

Thinking My Family Spending

Author:Hilary Swank

“My job is about playing people. And I think once you lose touch with people, what do you play?”

People Thinking Play Jobs Loses

Author:Hilary Swank

“I get really frustrated during a crisis when I go through all the cable channels and find - very often with the exception of CNN - that I'm not watching news at all. You think, 'Well, God... there are talk shows, talk shows, talk shows and everyone is an expert!”

Thinking Wells Shows News Crisis Experts Exception Frustrated Cables Get Real Cnn Talk Shows

Author:Howard Stringer

“As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.”

Thinking Way Jobs Lasts Form Actors Shapes Screws Going To Work

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Children Jobs Actors Strong Attitude Focus Healthy Helpful About Yourself Relaxed My Attitude Thinking About You Thinking About Yourself

Author:Imelda Staunton

“Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.”

Thinking Bigs Mother Left Felt Sides Space Effects Huge Filled Holes

Author:Imelda Staunton

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