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“And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.”

Thinking Literature Taught Poetry Is

Author:Norman MacCaig

“I don't think of myself all the time.”

Thinking

Author:Norman MacCaig

“I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.”

Thinking Writing Mean Literature

Author:Norman MacCaig

“When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.”

Thinking Men Literature Voice He Man Poet Hearing

Author:Norman MacCaig

“In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.”

People Thinking Way Firsts Facts Literature Seeing Absolutes Moved Baloney

Author:Norman MacCaig

“I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.”

Thinking Looks Perspective Kings Asia Asian Reflecting Anna

Author:Jodie Foster

“If I wanted to pitch that bad, I probably would. But I don't think I'm in that stage.”

Ifs Thinking Wanted Stage

Author:Pedro Martinez

“Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.”

Thinking Decision Explaining

Author:Peter Mandelson

“I have to leave the games now if the announcer says something I don't agree with. I'm thinking, 'Peyton, it is not healthy to be all worked up before a game.”

Ifs Thinking Games Healthy Agree Announcers Peyton

Author:Peyton Manning

“Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.”

Thinking Littles Different Political Numbers Class Teaching Students Taught Huge Transition Political Science Working Life Student Life

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“I think love is the through line and it's universal and it doesn't matter what period of time, time or place, or people, that's something we all connect to. That's the thin thread that I think keeps it altogether.”

People Thinking Matter Lines Love Is Periods Universal Thread

Author:Rachel McAdams

“I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.”

Thinking Way Littles Different Kids Able Wish Grows Bits My Own Growing Up One Thing Mystery Birth Little Bit Different Ways Farms Exposure

Author:Rachel McAdams

“You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Doe Made Eye Used Wonder Shots Red Flying Used To Be Planes Therapy Pauses Linked Flyers Fear Of Flying Red Eye

Author:Rachel McAdams

“Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that's what worked for our film.”

Thinking Film Black Yeah Edgy Pitch Black

Author:Radha Mitchell

“I'm very fortunate to have the privilege of working with directors like Bill Condon and Paul Thomas Anderson, who I think is one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.”

Thinking Directors Bills Privilege Fortunate Filmmaker Our Time

Author:Rami Malek

“I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for several years. Which is trying to find a way to not let the insecurity of my profession get the better of me and make me crazy. I'm trying to find a way to maintain my own personal balance in the midst of everything.”

Thinking Way Trying Years Wells Bigs My Own Crazy Balance Overcoming Profession My Way Insecurity Midst Hurdle

Author:Rebecca De Mornay

“I think often I learn the most from other people's mistakes. If I'm in the audience watching an actor and thinking, 'I don't believe you,' I spend the rest of the play working out why I don't believe them.”

People Ifs Thinking Believe Play Actors Mistake Audience Don't Believe Work Out I Don't Believe You

Author:Richard Madden

“Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.”

People Thinking Shows Involved Architecture Discussion Polemics

Author:Richard Meier

“I think people have come to know me, and I don't deviate too much as an individual. What you see is what you get.”

People Thinking Knows Individual Too Much Know Me Deviate

Author:Rob Mariano

“I see lots of cycles, for sure. There's the whole post-Star Wars era, but I don't think it's the whole story.”

Thinking War Whole Stories Stars Eras Posts Cycles

Author:Rob Morrow

“If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.”

People Ifs Thinking Important Whole Shapes Ambition Inspired Theme Contribution Being The Best Meaningless Conquest

Author:Rob Morrow

“One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.”

Thinking States Lasts Three Hours United United States Saws Week Minutes Media Average Radio Variety Surveys Electronic Media

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.”

Thinking Done Opportunity Inspire Driven Composer

Author:Robert Moog

“I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job.”

Thinking Stills Jobs Actors Disease

Author:Roddy McDowall

“There's a certain way people are used to seeing nude women, and that's in a submissive, coy pose, not looking at the camera. And in this poster, I'm looking dead into the camera with no expression on my face. I think it freaks a lot of people out.”

People Thinking Way Faces Used Certain Seeing Expression Cameras Freak Posters Submissive Posing

Author:Rooney Mara

“I really enjoy playing 'Tiger Woods' on the Wii, and you can set the levels to easy, medium, or hard, so I think it's definitely a good way for kids to learn the motion of a golf swing if they want to get into the sport. It makes it more fun for them as well.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Wells Hard Kids Fun Easy Sports Enjoy Levels Golf Woods Mediums Swings Tigers Good Way Golf Swing Wii

Author:Rory McIlroy

“I would like Obama to be tougher on going up against the Republicans, I don't think he should try to be so moderate.”

Thinking Should Trying Republican Moderates

Author:Rose McGowan

“I'm not really one of those people who goes and writes some big back story and agonizes over characters. I think you kind of can get it. For me personally, it's just kind of more instinctive. But I don't have kind of an acting background. I fell into it accidentally.”

People Thinking Writing Kind Character Stories Bigs Acting Backgrounds

Author:Rose McGowan

“Quentin Tarantino is controlled insanity, I would say. He's very loud and fun. I don't think there's anybody on the planet like him that I have ever met.”

Thinking Fun Planets Mets Loud Insanity Controlled Quentin Tarantino

Author:Rose McGowan

“Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.”

Thinking Way Happens Film Acting Skills Entering Technicians

Author:Jodie Foster

“I think that's an important lesson for young people who want to be artists: You have to find someone who believes in you and who will help you find that time where you don't have to think about a job but just making work. If I didn't have those people in my life, I wouldn't be in the position I'm in.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Believe Important Helping Jobs Young Artist Position Lessons Believe In You Important Lessons

Author:Ryan McGinley

“I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a documentary. I think it would be interesting to find one person that really fascinated me or maybe a band and travel with them, but I don't think I could do it like I used to do it.”

Thinking Way Want Persons Would Be Film Used Interesting Nice Band Transition Fascinated Venture Documentaries

Author:Ryan McGinley

“I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational.”

People Thinking Has Beens Kids Violence Various Irrational

Author:Samantha Morton

“I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all.”

Thinking Mother

Author:Samantha Morton

“I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Mind Believe States Actors Lines Ability Fine Type Ill Insane Performing Fine Lines Mentally Ill

Author:Samantha Morton

“I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.”

Thinking Writing I Can Stories Film Talent Brilliant Short Story Just Do It Film Writing

Author:Samantha Morton

“I think when we use 'stress', we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many different things into one big category.”

Thinking Trying Kind Different Use Bigs Fit Stress Different Things Categories Dummy

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief.”

Thinking Way Today Pain Lasts Century Changed Amount Treats Patient Cancer Enormous Relief Providing Physicians Psychics Solace Pain Relief Treating Patients

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“There is a duality in recognising what an incredible disease it is - in terms of its origin, that it emerges out of a normal cell. It's a reminder of what a wonderful thing a normal cell is. In a very cold, scientific sense, I think a cancer cell is a kind of biological marvel.”

Thinking Kind Term Wonderful Cold Disease Normal Incredibles Cancer Cells Wonderful Things Reminders Duality

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“I think I underestimated the way people bracket you.”

People Thinking Way Underestimated Brackets

Author:Sienna Miller

“I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.”

Thinking Equal

Author:Sienna Miller

“I quite love sequins; I think it's the drag queen in me.”

Thinking Queens Drag Drag Queen Sequins

Author:Sienna Miller

“I think all humans are essentially proud and I certainly am.”

Thinking Humans Proud

Author:Sienna Miller

“I think the media has changed, not just in England but in the world.”

Thinking World Media Changed England

Author:Sienna Miller

“Companies, to date, have often used the excuse that they are only beholden to their shareholders, but we need shareholders to think of themselves as stakeholders in the well being of society as well.”

Thinking Needs Wells Used Company Excuse Well Being Shareholders Stakeholder

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“When something works for you or another brand, ask yourself, 'Why?' Then don't copy it but think about what you can do that's unique to you and better.”

Thinking Asks Can Do Unique Brands Copies

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“I think deep down I'm spiritual, but there's nothing I practice.”

Thinking Spiritual Practice Deep Down

Author:Stella McCartney

“I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that.”

Thinking World Two Language Technology Fashion Designer Two Worlds

Author:Stella McCartney

“As far as expense, I think if 'Twilight' does well enough, then we should be able to do the big expensive stuff for the sequels. I mean, we have to have werewolves, there's no way around it. They have to be there.”

Ifs Thinking Way Should Wells Mean Doe Enough Bigs Able Stuff Expensive Expenses Twilight Werewolf Sequels

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating.”

Thinking Feels Stories Body Reading Next My Own Steps Reader Creating Defined Next Steps

Author:Stephenie Meyer

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