“I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.” ThinkingSufferingPerfectCitiesTalkingSeeingHappenedHonestNostalgiaBeing HonestBelovedFlawsBaltimore Author:Laura Lippman
“I think the word 'earnest' kind of has a negative connotation on some level. I think one of the things that's happened is that being cynical is somehow conflated with being sophisticated. I think that's problematic, to say the least.” ThinkingKindLevelsHappenedNegativeCynicalSophisticatedEarnestConnotation Author:Josh Radnor
“I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.” ThinkingMenWantHappensHappenedMen And WomenLiberationFallacy Author:Christina Hoff Sommers
“Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.” PeopleThinkingNeedsGivingLooksLawHappenedStreetsMovementGiving UpEmploymentFranceProtestWon't Give UpProtest Movements Author:Jose Saramago
“It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious incubation which could not be hurried and was if anything impeded by deliberate thinking.... Having, by a time of very intense concentration, planted the problem in my subconsciousness, it would germinate underground until, suddenly, the solution emerged with a blinding clarity, so that it only remained to write down what happened as if in a revelation.” IfsThinkingGivingWritingFirstsBookProblemAttentionHappenedSubjectsSeriousNeededPeriodsSolutionsIntenseClarityRevelationsConcentrationContemplatingSubconsciousDeliberateIncubation Author:Bertrand Russell
“I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks, traumatized in a totally different way by some of what happened afterward in response. And I think there have been these questions hovering in the past decade of, what kind of country are we? Who are we?” ThinkingKnowsWayKindHas BeensDifferentCountryPastHappenedResponseDecadesDifferent WaysHovering Author:Amy Waldman
“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.” ThinkingHappenedTeensAlcoholics Author:Julie Walters
“There's also something happening in television similar to what happened in the '80s, when people stopped taking so many drugs and wanted to hear real instruments in music again. I think people want plot, story and characters. Those are more important than having a big star.” PeopleThinkingWantImportantRealCharacterStoriesBigsWantedStarsHappenedTelevisionDrugHappeningsInstrumentsPlot80s Author:Jessica Pare
“People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.” PeopleThinkingCan DoCasesNovelHappenedCircumstancesMemoirReverseBiographies Book:Hearing Secret Harmonies: Book 12 of A Dance to the Music of Time Source: Hearing Secret Harmonies: Book 12 of A Dance to the Music of Time
“I think I was very lucky that I didn't get well-known until my early thirties. If it had happened when I was younger, you might have seen me falling out of nightclubs. I think I conducted myself as a much better human being because I was already married when all that came along (I got married five months after I got the role as Will).” IfsThinkingHumansWellsMightFallHuman BeingsKnownRolesFiveHappenedMonthsLuckyMarriedWell KnownGet WellNightclubs Author:Eric McCormack