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“I don't think I suffered with depression, I don't think I'm a depressed type of person - I just think I suffered a depression to do with snooker, and I just couldn't handle it. I could go out and play, but take me out of there and I couldn't do life. It was a nightmare, my life just felt like a bit of a nightmare.”

Thinking Persons Play Felt Bits Type Handle Nightmare Take Me Snooker

Author:Ronnie O'Sullivan

“I've been semi-successful. I've done all right but I'm not the player I was. Who do I think will win the world championship? John Higgins. Have I been good for snooker? I don't know.”

Thinking Knows World Done Winning Successful Player Championship Snooker

Author:Ronnie O'Sullivan

“People think I don't like interviews but I don't mind speaking about proper and interesting stuff. When it's stupid stuff to build your image and you are told to mention this and mention that, I hate it.”

People Thinking Mind Hate Stuff Interesting Stupid I Hate Interviews Interesting Stuff

Author:Ronnie O'Sullivan

“I got a woman that's mean as she can be, sometimes I think she's almost as mean as me.”

Thinking Mean Sometimes

Author:Roy Orbison

“I think all women should learn how to strip. It's a really healthy, extremely challenging thing to do.”

Thinking Should Challenges Healthy Things To Do

Author:Sandra Oh

“I think the roles in television are better for women right now. At this point, I don't want to continue doing the same things I've been doing in film because it's very limited.”

Thinking Want Film Roles Television Right Now Women Right

Author:Sandra Oh

“People ask me what I'm writing. They think I'm Sandra Tsing Loh. Or they ask about stand-up. 'No, that's Margaret Cho.' I really think there is this kind of glomming, that they think we are somehow all the same person.”

People Thinking Writing Kind Persons Asks Ask Me

Author:Sandra Oh

“I don't think I'll be making documentaries my whole life.”

Thinking Whole Whole Life Documentaries

Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.”

Thinking Want Challenges Events Duty Happenings Topics Status Quo Timely

Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“I think perhaps Pakistan can take the lead. Perhaps Turkey can as well, being part of Europe. But someone has to start talking about why the Muslim world has become a boiling pot and look beyond these cartoons to what the ideological reasons are for this divide.”

Thinking World Wells Looks Reason Talking Europe Well Being Pot Divides Cartoon Pakistan Turkeys Ideological Boiling Muslim World

Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“I think there's a difference between God and religion.”

Thinking Differences

Author:Sinead O'Connor

“We should be recklessly abandoned to Jesus, and just turn it over to Him. Through the support I think the sacrifices will be made and we'll all be cool with it.”

Thinking Should Made Turns Jesus Support Sacrifice Abandoned Being Cool

Author:Stacie Orrico

“I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.”

Thinking Young Mythology Ran

Author:Tea Obreht

“Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.”

Thinking Feels Should Kind Age Form Young Taken Wonderful Encouragement Artistic Endeavor Scope Attempting Young Writers Inexperience

Author:Tea Obreht

“Really, I think of fame as distracting; it's something you have to get around.”

Thinking Fame

Author:Terry O'Quinn

“I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration, that sense of unfairness, and multiply it.”

Thinking Trying Play Character Emotion Focus Shame Relate Frustration Load Soup Helplessness Unfamiliar Psycho Unfairness

Author:Terry O'Quinn

“It's funny to be discovered by a lot of people who didn't know you before. People always used to say, 'Do you shop at Home Depot?' or 'Does your kid go to such and such school?' They want to know why they know me, even if they don't know my name. I don't think that's a bad thing, by the way; I think it's nice to be kind of anonymously famous.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Way Want Kind Doe Home Kids School Used Names Nice Shops Bad Things Be Kind Know Me

Author:Terry O'Quinn

“Sharks will scare me. I went out to Malibu a couple of weeks ago. Beautiful, clear day, out in five feet of water, going to surf, and there was this big ol' freakin' leopard shark... I'm looking at him and I'm thinking, 'OK, he won't hurt me.”

Thinking Bigs Beautiful Water Hurt Clear Five Week Feet Couple Scare Sharks Hurt Me Surf Leopards Malibu Clear Day

Author:Timothy Olyphant

“As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.”

Thinking I Can Kids Turns Adults Temper Fierce Unforgiving

Author:Will Oldham

“I do not want a personal relationship with my fans. Or to do anything that encourages them to think they have one with me. They can have a personal relationship with my songs. That's fine, but they don't know me.”

Thinking Knows Want Song Fans Fine Know Me Personal Relationships

Author:Will Oldham

“I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.”

Thinking Real Pirate

Author:Will Oldham

“I think everybody works from a defensive position, for the most part, in the film industry.”

Thinking Film Position Industry Film Industry

Author:Will Oldham

“I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs of humans to communicate with the aspects of themselves that are neglected by language.”

Thinking Needs Humans Soul Language Church Records Aspect Communicate Appropriate Neglected Human Soul Respectful

Book:Will Oldham on Bonnie

Source: Will Oldham on Bonnie

“I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we're engaging in piracy.”

Thinking America Lines Accepting Poverty Allowing Engaging Paychecks Piracy

Author:Will Oldham

“I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.”

Thinking Lying Involved Musician Great Music Great Musician

Author:Will Oldham

“I'd like my records to reach as many people as possible, but I'm also thinking in terms of how I can keep from getting jaded or unhappy with the process.”

People Thinking I Can Process Term Records Unhappy Jaded

Author:Will Oldham

“Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.”

Thinking Country School Crisis

Author:Daniel Pennac

“The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.”

Thinking Want Needs School Teacher Subjects Consumers Shops Goods

Author:Daniel Pennac

“I think in many ways, I'm sort of a blank canvas, because in many ways, I'm just observing the world and the people around me and their characters and letting them kind of explode off me and to find out why they're doing what they're doing. But then every once in awhile, I get to take on a whole new character.”

People Thinking World Way Kind Whole Character Blank Canvas Observing Blank Canvas Observing The World

Author:Danny Pudi

“Thankfully, I was able to go to Marquette University and get my education, a Catholic education, so I could please my family, because I think they wanted me to be a priest.”

Thinking Able Wanted Please My Family Catholic University Priests Catholic Education

Author:Danny Pudi

“Where I come from, you don't just say, 'Oh, I'm going to become an actor.' Talk like that and they think you're crazy.”

Thinking Actors Crazy

Author:Ellen Pompeo

“I think you get less takes on TV than in movies.”

Thinking Tvs

Author:Evan Peters

“I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic all the time, they crave to see you being silly or funny. But, seeing you in comedy all the time, it's hard to see that person go be serious, for some reason.”

Thinking Persons Hard Reason Comedy Seeing Serious Drama Harder Silly Dramatic Crave Being Silly

Author:Evan Peters

“I used to look at horror movies as being really real and it would totally freak me out and give me nightmares. Now I watch and think, 'whoa how'd they do that?”

Thinking Giving Looks Real Used Watches Horror Give Me Nightmare Freak Being Real

Author:Evan Peters

“I would love to do comedy. I think I'm funny and that comedy is my strong suit, at least in real life. I have yet to prove myself in the movies, but I'd love to get the opportunity to do that.”

Thinking Real Opportunity Strong Comedy Prove Real Life Suits Prove Myself

Author:Evan Peters

“Just thinking about that, if that were to really happen, if an alien were to come down and really abduct you, how terrifying and how earth-shattering would that be? Your whole world is just destroyed. God is destroyed. It's kind of a fascinating thing to think about.”

Ifs Thinking World Kind Whole Happens Earth Down And Whole World Destroyed Aliens Fascinating Shattering

Author:Evan Peters

“I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.”

Thinking Inspiration Easier Agree Misery Songwriters

Author:Grant-Lee Phillips

“I'm too busy thinking what I'm going to say next to remember what I've said, but my staff tells me I'm sometimes funny. Not always on purpose, though.”

Thinking Said Sometimes Remember Purpose Next Busy Staff Too Busy

Author:Jared Polis

“My favorite actor is Sir Ben Kingsley - nobody is as good as him, in my opinion. I think he's so good as an artist.”

Thinking Artist Actors Opinion My Favorite

Author:Josh Peck

“I think as working actors, it's like sales. You're only as good as your last sale, so you put your all into something and you just hope that from that you can get your next job.”

Thinking Jobs Lasts Next Actors

Author:Josh Peck

“I think whether you're a movie critic and have seen a million movies, or you're just a normal popcorn movie watcher, you can tell the difference when someone is just laying it on too thick.”

Thinking Differences Millions Normal Critics Thick Popcorn Watchers Movie Critic

Author:Josh Peck

“I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.”

Thinking Sports Media Absurd Clip

Author:Kal Penn

“I think it's important that your first film be your worst film, that one's life trajectory should go up.”

Thinking Should Firsts Important Film Worst Trajectory

Author:Kevin Pollak

“I know that the writers I read and admire all have an influence on my work, but trying to determine to what degree any particular piece of input changes the way I think about writing seems counterproductive.”

Thinking Knows Way Writing Trying Seems Pieces Influence Particular Degrees Determine Admire Input Counterproductive

Author:Kevin Powers

“I think a lot of the guys I know and a lot of people I've talked to, what they want is very often what most people want, a kind of simple life, a livelihood, a family, people who care about them, people they can care about. I think vets on the whole want the same things that everybody else does.”

People Thinking Knows Want Kind Doe Whole Care Guy Simple Who Cares Simple Life Livelihood Vets

Author:Kevin Powers

“I hope that when people with Down's see me, they will be inspired to do more than they think they can.”

People Thinking Inspired Be Inspired

Author:Lauren Potter

“I don't like my whole life dragged out. I don't want anyone to know about me, because I don't think I'm very interesting... I like my work. I like what I gave. And that was it.”

Thinking Knows Want Whole Interesting Whole Life Very Interesting

Author:Lilly Pulitzer

“A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.”

Thinking Writing Novel Finale Pointe

Author:Louise Penny

“I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's just tragic.”

Thinking Enough Seems Care Successful Tragic Awards

Author:Louise Penny

“I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply because that person doesn't have a Web site. But I think that, to use the Internet in a positive way, to turn people on to reading, is something that authors shouldn't really shy away from necessarily.”

People Thinking Way Persons Book Use Would Be Hate Turns Reading Lost Voice Internet I Hate Shy Compelling Site

Author:Marisha Pessl

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