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“Honestly, every person, every individual has a process, and my philosophy, whether it's an actor or an animator, is you try to understand the process that person has so you can get the most out of them, but I think you have to sort of manipulate that process with honesty.”

Thinking Trying Persons Philosophy Actors Individual Process Honesty Honestly Manipulate Animator

Author:Gore Verbinski

“I just don't know when we all decided that if it doesn't fit in a Happy Meal box, it's not for kids. I remember flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz, and I grew up watching Monty Python. I think that kids can handle a lot more than we give them credit for, especially when it comes to the absurd.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Giving Kids Remember Grew Fit Grew Up Decided Boxes Credit Flying Handle Absurd Meals Monkeys Wizards Python Monty

Author:Gore Verbinski

“I think audiences ultimately want something new. I think the business model for a franchise is such that it's very low risk because you have data and studios love data.”

Thinking Want Audience Risk Models Lows Studios Data Something New Want Something Business Models

Author:Gore Verbinski

“I think people imagine going back to a time when they knew who they were and they knew what the circumstances were - if you screwed up it was your fault.”

People Ifs Thinking Imagine Circumstances Faults Screwed Up

Author:Gore Verbinski

“Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.”

Thinking Writing Wells Backgrounds

Author:Jack Vance

“Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture.”

Thinking Moments Past Culture Growing Up Growing Malls Goth

Author:Jhonen Vasquez

“Ever since I'm done with Zim everyone thinks that I'm going to go back to comics. I've been flooded with emails asking me if I'm working on the new Johnny over and over again.”

Ifs Thinking Done Asking Email

Author:Jhonen Vasquez

“Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I'm very used to it. I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.”

People Thinking Looks Facts Used Guy Winning Audience Industry Traditional Magazines Comic Awards Respectable Buyers

Author:Jhonen Vasquez

“Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.”

Thinking Humans May Ends Facts Earth Creatures Significant Someday

Author:Joan D. Vinge

“I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Character Stories Wanted Next Strong Novel Female Decided Female Characters Strong Female Characters Strong Female

Author:Joan D. Vinge

“For me, the family is more important, of course! I don't want to change my family, or situation, for work. But I think it is possible for these things not to fight each other.”

Thinking Want Important Fighting Courses Situation My Family

Author:Paz Vega

“For a while I thought about studying medicine at school and becoming a doctor because I've always been interested in psychology and how people's minds operate. But I'm able to explore some of that as an actor and ultimately I think it seems more interesting.”

People Thinking Mind Seems Able School Actors Interesting Study Psychology Becoming Doctors Medicine Becoming A Doctor

Author:Rumer Willis

“I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.”

People Thinking Bigs Company Rich Beats Rich People Big Companies

Author:Sam Wyly

“I haven't experienced love at first sight yet. I've seen very, very beautiful girls and been awestruck but never love at first sight. I think confidence goes such a long way with women. A girl who is confident with who she is and she can really flaunt that is really sexy.”

Thinking Way Firsts Long Beautiful Girl Havens Sight Sexy Love At First Sight Long Way Very Beautiful Beautiful Girl Awestruck

Author:Tristan Wilds

“For me, it works to my advantage when people think I'm stupid. If somebody who disdains you or wants to control you underestimates you, you can play their game right back.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Play Games Stupid Advantage Underestimate Disdain

Author:Veronica Webb

“I wanted to try marathon running, but something always came up: I had a baby and a C-section or I got injured or I just didn't think I could run that far.”

Thinking Trying Running Wanted Baby Sections Marathon Injured Marathon Running

Author:Veronica Webb

“I think sometimes there are negative connotations for those who have a business mind as well as a creative side.”

Thinking Mind Wells Sometimes Sides Creative Negative Connotation

Author:Alexander Wang

“If you're designing out of a purely creative place, not thinking of the girl, then the consumer's not going to take notice.”

Ifs Thinking Girl Creative Design Consumers

Author:Alexander Wang

“I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking I really want to write a novel.”

Thinking Want Writing Years Novel Sitting Years Ago Sitting Around

Author:Amy Waldman

“Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that's hard to capture in journalism.”

People Thinking Hard Felt Rooms Fiction Conflict Confusion Journalism Contradiction Internals Capture Ambivalence Internal Conflict

Author:Amy Waldman

“I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks, traumatized in a totally different way by some of what happened afterward in response. And I think there have been these questions hovering in the past decade of, what kind of country are we? Who are we?”

Thinking Knows Way Kind Has Beens Different Country Past Happened Response Decades Different Ways Hovering

Author:Amy Waldman

“Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing words - usually lousy ones - for their own sake. And nap: it helps to refresh the brain, at least mine.”

Thinking Should Helping Brain Creativity Mines Sake Ran Each Day Realising Naps

Author:Amy Waldman

“I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award.”

People Thinking Has Beens Stories Winning Sides Havens West Fantastic Awards Composer Broadway West Side West Side Story

Author:Andrew Lloyd Webber

“If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to be successful with them, I think that's all you can ask isn't it? I think I don't really think too much about it. I am a bit shy socially, yeah, I admit that.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Has Beens Enough Asks Bits Successful Too Much Lucky Yeah What You Want Being Successful Shy

Author:Andrew Lloyd Webber

“I still think I'm not as good as anybody else.”

Thinking Stills

Author:Andy Williams

“There's no doubt in my mind that people on the West Coast - L.A. particularly - and the East Coast have no clue at all about what's happening outside their own little bailiwick. And they think everybody is stupid because they are not sophisticated.”

People Thinking Mind Littles Doubt Stupid Happenings West East No Doubt Sophisticated Coast Clue West Coast East Coast

Author:Andy Williams

“I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we wouldn't have millions of successful adoptions to consider. I do think that it's harder to love a child when you come into that child's life after the unrequited passion of infancy and early childhood has passed.”

Ifs Thinking Children Passion Millions Successful Childhood Harder Inevitable Adoption Dna Infancy Unrequited Children Love Early Childhood

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“I love the novel of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful novel. I love the movie of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful movie. And they're totally different. You accept each on its own terms, and that's kind of the ideal.”

Thinking Kind Different Beautiful Term Accepting Novel Ideals Patient

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“I mean, I do actually think there is a qualitative difference between aborting in the early part of the first trimester and in, you know, the middle or later part of the second trimester, in a way that you feel about it in that you grow attached.”

Thinking Knows Way Feels Firsts Mean Grows Differences Middle Qualitative

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”

“I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it on their palms. I think it's a terrible lesson, to use physical punishment to make a point about not behaving, not being kind to their siblings, to other people. I mean that's just absurd. But I've lost it, I understand it.”

People Thinking Kind Mean Children Use Remember Lost Wish Terrible Lessons Punishment Absurd Instance My Children Be Kind Palms Sibling Tattooed

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Looks Children Important Home Mother Asks Parent Emotional Depends Picks Fulfilled Stay At Home Emotional Life Plath

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“Personally, I think four is the perfect number of children for our particular family. Four is enough to create the frenzied cacophony that my husband and I find so joyful.”

Thinking Children Enough Perfect Numbers Four Particular Husband My Husband Joyful Cacophony

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with being a minister's son. And now I know I'm pretty darn good at playing a woman too.”

Thinking Knows Want Trying Wells I Can Done Actors Son Ministers

Author:Barry Watson

“I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the scores of black children and other groups. I believe that many politicians think this has been the way it has always been, so what's the problem?”

Thinking Way Believe Children Has Beens Problem I Believe Black Groups Politician Score Gaps

Author:Barry Williams

“I went to Julliard and we did a lot of mask work there, and I remember thinking in class, 'When am I ever going to use this?”

Thinking Use Remember Class Mask

Author:Benjamin Walker

“You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.”

Thinking Men Way Persons Larger Than Life

Author:Benjamin Walker

“The vampire craze is kind of fascinating. We're interested in the idea of immorality and I think we're drawn to people or creatures who can give in to those base impulses and just be bad and not feel bad about it.”

People Thinking Giving Feels Kind Ideas Creatures Vampire Impulse Fascinating Immorality Craze

Author:Benjamin Walker

“I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.”

Thinking Peace Return Foundation Misery Confusion Comeback Tranquillity Chaos And Confusion

Author:Anne Frank

“I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.”

Source: The diary of a young girl

“I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.”

People Thinking Knows Enough Shows Fighting Literature Issues Serious Smart Journalist Scream Versus Serious Issues

Author:Bob Woodward

“I think I hit the bottom when my wife left me while I was on the road.”

Thinking Left Wife Bottom My Wife

Author:Brian Welch

“The most important thing I think we need to remember is that we're a work in progress. Do not be ashamed or afraid to ask for help. That's what I did. I asked for help.”

Thinking Needs Important Helping Remember Asks Progress Important Things Ashamed Work In Progress

Author:Carnie Wilson

“I think I'm a really tough player.”

Thinking Player Tough

Author:Caroline Wozniacki

“I think that's my personality, to have a good laugh and not to take myself too seriously. And of course I have my things on the court but when I'm off the court I just like to have fun.”

Thinking Courses Fun Laughing Personality Court Having Fun Good Laugh

Author:Caroline Wozniacki

“I have nothing to lose and think that it's a positive thing that I am young and playing on a good level.”

Thinking Young Loses Levels Nothing To Lose Positive Things

Author:Caroline Wozniacki

“I think you get to a point where you watch something just to enjoy it. I don't think it's really done so that you're supposed to feel, Oh, he's the most wonderful drummer. I think the whole lot is what's more enjoyable.”

Thinking Feels Done Whole Enjoy Watches Wonderful Enjoyable Drummer

Author:Charlie Watts

“When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything.”

People Thinking Sex Rocks Drug Stones Supposed To Be Rolling Rock And Roll Rolling Stones

Author:Charlie Watts

“I think I'm no different from any artist in music. At least once, you want to see your name up on the top.”

Thinking Want Different Artist Names

Author:Chely Wright

“No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.”

Ifs Thinking Art Real Might Painting Blame Cartoon

Author:Chris Ware

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