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“The kind of stuff I usually read is a bit more on the literary side, like books that I think are influential in the sense that they're doing pulpy subject matter in a refined way. Like 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, I loved that book.”

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Author:Isaac Marion

“I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.”

Thinking Art Whole Successful Art Is Being Successful Beneficial

Author:Isaiah Mustafa

“Listen, I'm a big fan of everything on NBC. When I think of comedy on TV, I really think of NBC.”

Thinking Bigs Comedy Fans Tvs Nbc

Author:Isaiah Mustafa

“I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I should lose my accent, and part of me thinks, 'How dare you! This is who I am! Millions of people want to sound like me!' But it's sensitive, and I have tried to change it, with little to no success.”

People Thinking Way Want Should Littles Jobs Sound Loses Millions Notes Dare Who I Am Like Me Sensitive Accents

Author:Jack McBrayer

“I would just like my children to be able to eat fish when they grow up. Now, I don't think there's anything controversial about that.”

Thinking Children Able Grows Growing Up Fishes My Children Controversial

Author:James Murdoch

“I have very girly hands and I use them a lot when I talk in a way that I think is very feminine.”

Thinking Way Use Hands Feminine Girly

Author:Janet McTeer

“It's naive to think there is a woman in the world who isn't brought up to believe that they are waiting for their soul mate. You even see it in Disney.”

Thinking World Believe Soul Waiting Mates Naive Soul Mate

Author:Janet McTeer

“I did work at a mall in college - I think retail/customer service is just one of the most hideous jobs in the world. So I always try to be extra nice when I go into a store. But malls are part of our culture, if you watched any teen comedy in the '80s. it's clear that malls are where we live!”

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Author:Jayma Mays

“I don't think I'm destined to be the eternal bachelor.”

Thinking Eternal Destined Bachelors

Author:Jesse Metcalfe

“I never really had that father figure to look up to. I think that's the reason I'm so ambitious. I felt like I wasn't appreciated as a child so I wanted to prove my worth as an adult, as an actor.”

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Author:Jesse Metcalfe

“I think there are shows that are long-running and successful, where some or all of the cast members hate each other, but I think it's a lot easier to have an environment where everyone feels secure and supported to do the best work possible.”

Thinking Feels Long Shows Running Hate Successful Environment Easier Members Casts Secure Do The Best Best Work Cast Members

Author:Jesse Metcalfe

“I've definitely seen that Texas is certainly a right-wing area politically. I think if you talk to the average Texan, some people may still think that alternative energy is some sort of hippie mumbo-jumbo, you know. I think there's still a strong movement to continue to drill and continue to find these other sources of oil within the country.”

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Author:Jesse Metcalfe

“I think you can be athletic and intellectual at the same time.”

Thinking Intellectual Athletic

Author:Joe Manganiello

“Also, to be honest, my dad wanted me to be an athlete. And I think all sons want to prove something to their dad. So now, aged 35, I want to see what I can achieve physically.”

Thinking Want I Can Wanted Achieve Honest Son Dad Prove My Dad Athlete Being Honest

Author:Joe Manganiello

“I think good actors - good, collaborative actors who see themselves as leaders in a given production - can and should offer ideas that have nothing to do with wanting to direct themselves.”

Thinking Should Ideas Actors Given Leader Offers Direct Productions Good Actors

Author:Joe Mantello

“I think, as written, 'Assassins' simply acknowledges the very human need to be acknowledged. As director, I've got to put aside any particular biases or prejudices that, as a moral human being, this is not an appropriate or acceptable way to get what you want.”

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Author:Joe Mantello

“People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole work. But then people look at a painting for two minutes and think they've seen it. Certain paintings are made to be consumed fast. But some require a slowed-down time. You have to go back to them.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Looks Made Two Whole Film Certain Walks Minutes Havens Painting Consumed Gallery Down Time

Author:Julie Mehretu

“I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence my style and my development of stories.”

Thinking Children Stories Influence Style Development Mythology Inevitable Fairytale Folklore Small Child

Author:Juliet Marillier

“Third person allows a deeper exploration of the relationships between characters. We can see their misunderstandings and hear what they think about each other. We can create a more complex structure with various story threads running parallel.”

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Author:Juliet Marillier

“I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy.”

People Thinking Comedy Drama Harder

Author:Leslie Mann

“Broadcasting for advertisers is still the best game in town, and they know it. Look, I admire a lot of the shows on cable. I think 'Mad Men' is wonderful. I think 'Breaking Bad' is wonderful. But let's remember they're about one-tenth the audience of NCIS.”

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Author:Leslie Moonves

“I think many years from now, people will still watch television, though it will probably be 150 inches wide. What will change is the ability to get 'CSI' not only on TV but also on the Internet, even watching it in a foreign country as it's playing in the US.”

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Author:Leslie Moonves

“We think wireless is going to grow tremendously. Do I think people are going to watch an episode of 'Survivor' on a 2-inch television set? I doubt it. But I do think somebody's going to go to a grocery store in the middle of a football game and watch that game.”

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Author:Leslie Moonves

“When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg, because English was still relatively new to me, and Sandburg, of course, wrote in a very easy-to-understand, very colloquial and informal manner.”

Thinking Writing Stills Courses Easy College Inspired

Author:Lisel Mueller

“I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers.”

People Thinking Believe Helping Happens Jobs Left Poverty Rights Despair Workers Fewer Providing Competitors

Author:Louise Mensch

“That said, I can't emphasise enough - and I hope you print this - that I absolutely don't judge anybody at all who has an abortion, nor do I think they are murderers, nor do I think they are baby killers.”

Thinking Said I Can Enough Judging Baby Abortion Print Killers Murderer

Author:Louise Mensch

“Your moral stance depends on what you think is being aborted. If you don't believe it to be a person but part of a woman's body, of course you will be pro-choice. I would be virulently pro-choice if I didn't believe it to be a person.”

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Author:Louise Mensch

“Everybody think they're famous when they get 100,000 followers on Instagram and 5,000 on Twitter.”

Thinking Followers Instagram

Author:Meek Mill

“I don't think I would change really anything about rap. Rap don't have no limits to it, and I like it like that.”

Thinking Limits Rap

Author:Meek Mill

“I have a fan base worldwide, man. I think they're really down for me. That's how I got signed - 30,000 fans retweeting Rick Ross.”

Thinking Men Fans

Author:Meek Mill

“I think everybody from Philadelphia been shot at before.”

Thinking Shots Philadelphia

Author:Meek Mill

“I think it's way harder when you have success, 'cause people tend to not treat you the same or look at you the same because they see the success or the money you make.”

People Thinking Way Looks Causes Treats Harder

Author:Meek Mill

“When people help me out, even with something like a move or a ride to the airport, I'm always thinking "Are you sure it's okay? Are you sure you don't mind?"”

People Thinking Mind Helping Moving Okay Help Me Airports Always Thinking

Author:Melissa McBride

“I think overall it is better for businesses to stay private because you have more latitude, more freedom.”

Thinking Latitude

Author:Michael Moritz

“How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.”

Thinking Men Years Wells Simple Rocks Band Dignity Old Man Parody Rock Bands

Author:Nate Mendel

“I've run out of mates that haven't had a baby now. It does make me think of my parents having a family so young and the fact that I've been able to avoid it for so long. It does make me a feel a little bit selfish.”

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Author:Nick Moran

“No one thinks they're irritating. Nobody thinks they're boring. So if you're playing a character like that you have to play them as how they think of themselves.”

Ifs Thinking Play Character Boring Irritating

Author:Nick Moran

“I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.”

People Thinking Knows Sound Simple Talking Television Perfectly Good

Author:Paul McGann

“I think the really cool and compelling thing about math and physics is that it opens up entry to all these hypotheticals - or at least, it gives you the language to talk about them. But at the same time, if a scenario is completely disconnected from reality, it's not all that interesting.”

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Author:Randall Munroe

“I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.”

Thinking Needs Writing Littles Bits Little Bit Definitions

Author:Richard K. Morgan

“I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite sheltered then and didn't know anything much about the world. I hadn't had any direct experience of how the world works.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Direct Twenties

Author:Richard K. Morgan

“In the future, maybe quantum mechanics will teach us something equally chilling about exactly how we exist from moment to moment of what we like to think of as time.”

Thinking Moments Teach Quantum Mechanic Chill Quantum Mechanics

Author:Richard K. Morgan

“Science casts a long black shadow back over who we think we are, and where it falls the temperature falls with it. Its touch is chilly and unforgiving.”

Thinking Long Fall Black Shadow Casts Temperature Unforgiving Chilly

Author:Richard K. Morgan

“I think I'm pretty much down to earth, and I'm not really way, way out there.”

Thinking Way Earth Down To Earth

Author:Robert Morse

“I think you always have to keep your eye open and take advantage of anything that may come your way.”

Thinking Way May Eye Advantage

Author:Robert Morse

“I get a little cranky with the whole business about kids not having attention spans. This reminds me of the usual business of thinking that the next generation is hopeless. Every generation has said that about every younger generation.”

Thinking Littles Said Whole Kids Next Attention Generations Hopeless Usual Next Generation Attention Span Younger Generation Cranky

Author:Robin McKinley

“What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that is called children's or YA is in fact crossover and is equally valid for anyone who likes to read fantasy.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Children Facts Stuff Fantasy Likes Labels Crossover

Author:Robin McKinley

“I needed the 'Chuck' phase to appreciate the 'Captain Awesome' phase because otherwise I don't think I would have realized the flip side of that coin. I think I needed to see the world through Chuck's eyes before becoming Captain Awesome.”

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Author:Ryan McPartlin

“I'm a huge fan of John Hughes and can say that 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles' is easily a top 3 favorite. I'm also a huge fan of all the Second City talent, and I think my Dad and Bill Murray are long lost twins.”

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Author:Ryan McPartlin

“I think there are worse things for a teen to be enraptured with than 'Twilight.”

Thinking Twilight

Author:Stephen Moyer

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