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“I think the American Western laid down a kind of subject matter that's about following your instinct or following your gut and having a sort of removed quality from your humanity. And I think Clint Eastwood helped to establish that.”

Thinking Kind Matter Humanity Quality Subjects Instinct Western Following Guts Subject Matter

Author:Anson Mount

“You know, Lincoln was funny. I don't think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you're funny.”

Thinking Knows Should Firsts Shows

Author:Al Franken

“I would like to do a period piece. I think that would be fun.”

Thinking Would Be Fun Pieces Periods

Author:Beau Mirchoff

“I'm pretty easy going, I think.”

Thinking Easy Easy Going

Author:Beau Mirchoff

“I love the way dates in a text make us think that truth will follow.”

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Author:Ben Marcus

“I'm an enormous fan of Thomas Bernhard's books, and I like the relentless feeling in his work - the pursuit of darkness, the negative - and I think in some sense I've internalised that as what one is supposed to do.”

Thinking Book Feelings Darkness Fans Negative Pursuit Enormous Relentless

Author:Ben Marcus

“The common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, and I like this because it makes me think and it makes me worry. I can't just plunge my hand into the meat of it. I need new approaches.”

Thinking Needs I Can Hard Hands Common Worry Approach Meat Stubborn Plunge Unyielding New Approach

Author:Ben Marcus

“I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: 'give 'em nothin.' You don't plead guilty.”

Thinking Giving School Culture Guilty Ems Bags

Author:Ben Mendelsohn

“I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting. The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.”

Thinking Knows World Way Want Ideas Facts Actors Acting Posts De Niro

Author:Ben Mendelsohn

“I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable.”

Thinking Way Humans Curiosity Unrest

Author:Brit Marling

“I think I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven't been before as a human being.”

Thinking Way Humans Actors Human Beings Havens

Author:Brit Marling

“I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical.”

Thinking Mean Sometimes Bigs Possibility Budgets Limitless Explosions Cgi

Author:Brit Marling

“I think we're always looking for an excuse to connect.”

Thinking Excuse

Author:Brit Marling

“I think we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit.”

Thinking Littles Bits Little Bit Scared Intimacy

Author:Brit Marling

“I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.”

Thinking Acting Lifetime Attractive

Author:Brit Marling

“The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take each other into consideration, it's not uncommon for ecologists to spout absolute nonsense about economics, and vice versa.”

Thinking Way Two Intellectual Economics Absolutes Vices Nonsense Consideration Isolated Ecology Vice Versa Uncommon

Author:Charles C. Mann

“I think Aaron Sorkin is like Shakespeare. When you go through it, there is a rhythm and clues all over the place of how it should be played.”

Thinking Should Rhythm Clue

Author:Chris Messina

“I'm not a cook. I don't think I ever will be.”

Thinking Cooks

Author:Chris Messina

“I think as an actor, you're constantly putting yourself out there, and a lot of times failing - and failing in front of a bunch of people - and sometimes you have a good moment and something clicks.”

People Thinking Sometimes Moments Actors Failing Fronts Bunch Clicks Putting Yourself Out There Good Moments

Author:Chris Messina

“I would love to close my eyes and see myself with my girlfriend when we're 99 years old and I have a pipe and she's knitting a sweater, and I hope that's the way it goes. I think it's a challenge every day.”

Thinking Way Years Eye Challenges Girlfriend Pipe My Girlfriend Sweaters Knitting

Author:Chris Messina

“Yeah, I think everybody has the crises of questioning themselves at some point or other in their lives. Is this where I should live? The job I should have? The girl I should be dating? Is this the friend I should have?”

Thinking Should Jobs Life Is Girl Should Have Dating Crisis Yeah Questioning

Author:Chris Messina

“Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think.”

Thinking Persons Important Different Remember Engagement

Author:Christian Marclay

“I did plays in high school and I really loved it, but I think singing was always what I loved most of all.”

Thinking Play School Singing High School

Author:Cristin Milioti

“I love movies, but I think people think relationships are supposed to go how they go in movies. The ones I like are the ones that represent life.”

People Thinking Movie Love

Author:Cristin Milioti

“I mangle phrases constantly. The other day I was chatting with my boyfriend and I said to him, 'He really sold him under the bus.' And he said, 'I think you meant 'threw him under the bus,' or 'sold him up the river.”

Thinking Said Rivers Phrases Bus My Boyfriend Chatting

Author:Cristin Milioti

“I think one of the funniest things about '30 Rock' is that Liz Lemon is sort of like Buster Keaton - she's always the fool, the joke is always on her.”

Thinking Rocks Fool Jokes Lemons Liz Busters

Author:Cristin Milioti

“I used to have a lot of recurring dreams about Captain Hook when I was a little kid, which I remember very vividly. But I think I just really liked Peter Pan a lot, and 'Hook' was my favorite movie.”

Thinking Littles Dream Kids Remember Used My Favorite Peter Captains Hook Little Kid Recurring Recurring Dreams

Author:Cristin Milioti

“I've auditioned for musicals a lot, but I think my voice didn't really match what they were looking for. I went to school for musical theater for a year and dropped out. Legit musicals are not quite my forte.”

Thinking Years School Voice Theater Musical Musical Theater Forte Legit

Author:Cristin Milioti

“I couldn't think of anything worse than going to a fancy dress party. So, if somebody invited me to one, I'd go as the Invisible Man and not turn up.”

Ifs Thinking Men Turns Party Dresses Invisible Fancy Invited

Author:David Morrissey

“All actors think every job will be their last.”

Thinking Jobs Lasts Actors

Author:David Morrissey

“I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.”

Thinking Knows Humans Goodness Surprise Badness Where You Stand

Author:David Morrissey

“I'm a massive fan of Brit Art in general and Damien Hirst in particular. I think he's an absolute genius and should be celebrated in every way.”

Thinking Way Should Art Fans Particular Genius Absolutes Massive Brits

Author:David Morrissey

“I think that's the true litmus test for someone who has become closer to Jesus: their heart is more loving, accepting, childlike, less believing that they have all the answers and more believing in Him.”

Thinking Believe Heart Jesus Answers Accepting Tests Childlike Loving Jesus

Author:Donald Miller

“I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.”

Thinking Way Kind Stories Understanding Knowing Who You Are Where You Are Terrific Knowing Who You Are

Author:Donald Miller

“I think it's very hard for us, for Christians, to understand that it's okay to read a book, for instance, on how to manage your time. There's nothing wrong with that.”

Thinking Book Hard Christian Okay Instance Manage

Author:Donald Miller

“I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.”

Thinking Stories Jobs Jesus Hero Saint Epic Subplots

Author:Donald Miller

“Most of us are waiting. We're waiting for something interesting to happen. And I think we're going to wait forever if we don't do something more interesting with our lives.”

Ifs Thinking Happens Waiting Interesting Forever Our Lives Something Interesting Waiting For Something

Author:Donald Miller

“Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.”

People Ifs Thinking Views Point Of View Poetry Is

Author:Edwin Morgan

“I think every day there is some new actress comes out and inspires me to do something else... like Hilary Swank. After she did Boys Don't Cry, I felt this yearning to go out and be even half as good as she was.”

Thinking Felt Half Boys Cry Inspire Actresses Yearning Swank Boys Don't Cry

Author:Elisabeth Moss

“I think one of my biggest influences is Bette Davis. I've seen almost every one of her films, and she's been very inspiring to me.”

Thinking Film Influence Very Inspiring

Author:Elisabeth Moss

“I don't think any of us could have possibly anticipated how successful Mad Men has been. When we were working on the pilot, we loved it. We thought it was special. We hoped and prayed it'd be a success. But, we didn't count on it.”

Thinking Men Has Beens Successful Special Mad Pilots Mad Men

Author:Elisabeth Moss

“I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting characters that would work solely alongside men where they would be in a man's world and have to deal with that, and it creates a lot of interesting storylines. For me, it's kind of circumstantial, but I definitely enjoy it.”

Thinking Men World Writing Kind Character Would Be Actors Enjoy Interesting Deals Males Tendencies Really Interesting Interesting Characters Storyline

Author:Elisabeth Moss

“I think my guideline has been to find things that inspire me. And as long as I stick to that, I don't think I'll have any problems crossing over to becoming an adult actress.”

Thinking Long Has Beens Problem Inspire Becoming Adults Sticks Actresses Crossings Guidelines Crossing Over Becoming An Adult

Author:Elisabeth Moss

“I can't just sit around thinking how lucky I am.”

Thinking I Can Lucky

Author:Elizabeth McGovern

“I've been in things that have impressed people and they've come up to congratulate you but in a kind of, you-must-think-you're-really-special way.”

People Thinking Way Kind Special Come Up Impressed

Author:Elizabeth McGovern

“I think everybody's crazy, and if I'm the one being a little direct about it, that's fine by me.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Crazy Fine Direct

Author:Ezra Miller

“I think I enjoy playing human beings no matter the substance of their character.”

Thinking Humans Matter Character Enjoy Human Beings Substance

Author:Ezra Miller

“For a long time I felt like I was fighting my age, like I was constantly trying to prove to people that I was a savvy peer, and I felt them viewing me as a kid. I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9, you know? I think that’s because my parents always treated me as an adult.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Long Kids Age Fighting Felt Parent Prove Long Time Adults Treated Peers Cocky Savvy

Author:Ezra Miller

“I don't like to think of my readership as "fans," a word which has always suggested a kind of power relationship I'm uncomfortable with.”

Thinking Kind Fans Uncomfortable Readership Power Relationships

Author:Grant Morrison

“I think any writer coming on to Batman should at least attempt to do their own definitive version. What it means to them. Whatever they think that symbol or character can say.”

Thinking Should Mean Character Versions Symbols

Author:Grant Morrison

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