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“As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.”

Thinking World Children Past Worry Concepts Adults Our Time Engaging Submerged Worrying About The Past

Author:Chris Ware

“I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.”

Thinking Writing Stories Cartoonist Illustrators

Author:Chris Ware

“I think in Europe, movies are made like a commodity and then sold as art.”

Thinking Art Made Europe Commodity

Author:Christoph Waltz

“If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.”

People Ifs Thinking Mind Book Hands Impress

Book:The diary of a young girl

Source: The diary of a young girl

“I haven't seen it this busy since I've been an IndyCar driver. So I think that's a great kind of thing that's happening for the IndyCar Series, in general, right now. But it's an event that I'm very proud to be part of. I love it. I can't wait to come back next year.”

Thinking Years Kind I Can Next Waiting Events Havens Proud Right Now Happenings Series Busy Drivers Next Year

Author:Dan Wheldon

“I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.”

Thinking Humans War Species Artificial Intelligence Artificial Human Species

Author:Daniel H. Wilson

“As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.”

Thinking Trying Hard Force Technology Figures Wind Our Society Gale

Author:Daniel H. Wilson

“I think music is another language.”

Thinking Language Music Is

Author:Dar Williams

“Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.”

Thinking My Favorite Citing Milwaukee

Author:Dar Williams

“I know some of my parents' friends think 'Little Britain' is in incredibly poor taste. But swimming the Channel? You can't really say anything negative about that, can you? There's nothing better than making your parents happy. The glee on my father's face that day was amazing.”

Thinking Knows Littles Faces Father Parent Poor Taste Negative Britain Swimming Say Anything Glee Poor Taste Little Britain

Author:David Walliams

“I think a lot of kids get scared by 'E.T.' Sometimes when I do the science-fiction conventions, I'll have a 35-year-old guy with tatts and piercings all over, and he comes up and says, 'You know, it scared me so much I still can't watch it.”

Thinking Knows Years Stills Sometimes Kids Guy Fiction Watches Science Fiction Scared Come Up Conventions Piercings Old Guys

Author:Dee Wallace

“I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.”

Thinking Want Stories Watches Audience Television

Author:Dick Wolf

“I don't give advice. 90% of the time nobody takes it anyway. I will give encouragement and if asked a question as to how, or why I did certain things and if I think this will help whomever is asking the question I will do this.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Helping Certain Advice Encouragement Asking

Author:Dionne Warwick

“I think I've got a funny face.”

Thinking Faces Funny Face

Author:Dominic West

“No, I don't think 'The Wire' screwed up my career at all. It's the only reason people have heard of me. It's only been a huge, huge, very fortunate bonus.”

Thinking Careers Wire Screwed Up

Author:Dominic West

“People seem to think I'm Satan.”

People Thinking Seems Satan

Author:Dominic West

“I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground.”

Thinking Mind Looks Mother Dad Comfort Bored Dozen Hung Suspicious Of My Mind Playgrounds Disapproving Single Dad

Author:Dominic West

“But I think role models also start in the home with your parents.”

Thinking Home Parent Roles Models Role Models Male Role Models

Author:Dominique Wilkins

“I think it goes hand in hand because if you discipline yourself on the floor, as you become an older player or a more seasoned individual, it adds structure in your life.”

Ifs Thinking Hands Individual Player Discipline Structure Add Hand In Hand

Author:Dominique Wilkins

“I think you really have to become a parent to understand what you will endure to be there for your kids.”

Thinking Kids Parent Endure

Author:Dwyane Wade

“I think it's part of your mental health to let go of things. I think if you would have it all right there, it would be a little overwhelming. I don't know how you'd have a relationship. When you have a relationship, don't two people collude to kind of forget certain things?”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Kind Littles Two Would Be Certain Forget Know How Letting Go Mental Health Overwhelming

Author:Dylan Walsh

“I think my wife saw a picture of the rock group Journey, and they're kind of aging, and the one guy had dyed blonde hair with black roots, and... my idea was to get a little earring, I wanted to have a dangling earring.”

Thinking Kind Littles Ideas Wanted Guy Black Saws Wife Groups Journey Rocks Hair Roots Aging My Wife Blonde Earrings Blonde Hair

Author:Fred Willard

“Someone I've always admired is Catherine O'Hara... I think she's one of the best actresses in the country, not only comedy. I just think she's just a step aside from everybody, she's just wonderful.”

Thinking Country Steps Comedy Wonderful Actresses

Author:Fred Willard

“I think in terms of me shying away from modelling, I would like to clarify in some way that I was taking a break from many things in my life and obviously what people in the public see is that I'm pulling away from what is more public.”

People Thinking Way Term Break Pulling Modelling Taking A Break Pulling Away

Author:Gemma Ward

“I've always admired Cate Blanchett and the roles she chooses. I think she's got an incredible discipline in a way, with choosing roles that are going to help her grow and bring something interesting to the world.”

Thinking World Way Helping Grows Interesting Roles Discipline Incredibles Something Interesting

Author:Gemma Ward

“If I say I am not a politician, it is because I did not go to school to do political science. But at the end of the day, I think we are all born politicians. It's practical. All you gotta do is practice.”

Ifs Thinking Ends School Political Born Practice Politician Practicals The End Of The Day Political Science

Author:George Weah

“I know I have a successful career, a successful life. If I sit and say, 'Look, I have a comfortable life,' and I... just think about myself, I don't think that would be fair. That would be very selfish. Because everything I do in my life is to benefit my people.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Looks Would Be Life Is Careers Successful Benefits Comfortable Fairs Selfish Successful Life Successful Career Comfortable Life

Author:George Weah

“I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that thing in the back of my mind where I think I don't really know who I am. And it may make it a little easier to shift around in my narrative voice.”

Thinking Knows Writing Mind May Littles Voice Mystery Effects Easier Profound Who I Am Narrative Abiding Of My Mind Narrative Voice

Author:Gillian Welch

“I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew. It made me who I am - all the good and bad - and it's where all of the songs on Here For The Party came from. I've lived them all.”

Thinking Made Hard Song Party Who I Am Good And Bad Hard Life

Author:Gretchen Wilson

“I think music can heal your soul if you'll let it. It can also bring you up if you're down. It can also bring you down if you're too up. It's a mood thing.”

Ifs Thinking Soul Mood Heal Your Soul

Author:Gretchen Wilson

“People think SEALs are cold-blooded, heartless, wound-up, brainwashed killers. They imagine you can just point a SEAL in a direction and say, 'Go kill.' The truth is you're talking about a bunch of kind-hearted, jovial guys. The only thing that separates them is mental toughness.”

People Thinking Kind Guy Talking Imagine Cold Truth Is Wounds Bunch Killers Hearted Seals Heartless Toughness Brainwashed Mental Toughness Cold Blooded Kind Hearted Jovial

Author:Howard E. Wasdin

“I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.”

Thinking Years Sports Ability Independent Theatre

Author:Jack Wagner

“Obviously sex and nudity sells, but that's what people go to cable for but that's not going to happen on network daytime television... so I think it really is always going to come down to story. How do you make a story interesting enough so people will tune in? That's always going to be it.”

People Thinking Enough Stories Happens Sex Interesting Television Sells Tunes Cables Nudity Daytime

Author:Jack Wagner

“I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Firsts Made Care Evil Alive Media Perception Music Is Interviews Trickery Necessary Evil

Author:Jack White

“It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you are. After a while you begin to think there must be some truth in it because all those people can't be wrong.”

People Thinking Hard Fame

Author:Jack Wild

“Look, I don't think President Obama would have bowed to the ruler of Saudi Arabia if he didn't have oil to the degree that the Saudis do. I think they and other producing states, almost all of whom, except Norway and Canada, are dictatorships or autocratic systems, have thrown their weight around because of oil.”

Ifs Thinking Looks States President Degrees Weight Oil Canada Thrown President Obama Rulers Dictatorship Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Norway

Author:R. James Woolsey, Jr.

“I think I was afraid of what I might say when I got onto someone's stage or in front of someone's camera.”

Thinking Might Stage Fronts Cameras

Author:Jeffrey Wright

“I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention.”

Thinking Men Writing Book Feelings Romance Literature Attention Serious Standards Critics Beach Topics Unworthy About Family Double Standard

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?”

People Thinking Writing Sometimes Kids White Rooms Degrees Window Machines Silent Corners Noise Bags Trash White Noise

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“I don't think comedy is something you learn. I think it's something that's either there or it's not.”

Thinking Comedy

Author:Jessica Walter

“I don't think too far ahead because I want to appreciate what's happening now.”

Thinking Want Happenings Appreciate

Author:Jessie Ware

“I would like to think I am feminist in some sorts.”

Thinking Feminist

Author:Jessie Ware

“If I make a song where I'm happy, I sound completely mad - I think my voice is better-suited for sadder songs.”

Ifs Thinking Song Sound Voice Mad

Author:Jessie Ware

“I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can't.”

Ifs Thinking Should Government Religious Activity Worship Organization Good Work Doing Good Congregation Proselytizing

Author:Jim Wallis

“Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing.”

Thinking Stories Jobs Interest Waking Mundane Waking Life

Author:Jim Woodring

“I'm not a freak. I'm not really crazy or anything. I don't think I'm really abnormal. It's just, like anybody else, I have interests I cultivate, and one of my interests is not getting too used to things. I've sacrificed a lot of things in my life in order to keep that sense of things being unfamiliar.”

Thinking Used Order Interest Crazy Freak Unfamiliar Abnormal

Author:Jim Woodring

“I think a lot of the time, we don't give our family connections the kind of credit they deserve, like how important they are to us and how much they mean to us. I think family makes all the difference.”

Thinking Giving Kind Mean Important Differences Deserve Connections Credit Our Family Family Connections

Author:JoBeth Williams

“The problem with me is I always think I should've done better. I felt that after the World Cup final and through my whole career.”

Thinking World Should Done Whole Problem Felt Careers Finals Cups World Cup Cup Finals

Author:Jonny Wilkinson

“It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.”

Thinking Happened Teens Alcoholics

Author:Julie Walters

“The way I relax is I think, 'I haven't got anything coming up.' I like to know there are months ahead when I've got nothing.”

Thinking Knows Way Havens Months Relax

Author:Julie Walters

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