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“I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.”

Thinking Kind Persons Would Be Difficult Driven Annoying

“The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.”

Thinking Years Kind Persons Made Stills Lasts Film Absurd Repeats Walt

Author:Leonard Maltin

“I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a documentary. I think it would be interesting to find one person that really fascinated me or maybe a band and travel with them, but I don't think I could do it like I used to do it.”

Thinking Way Want Persons Would Be Film Used Interesting Nice Band Transition Fascinated Venture Documentaries

Author:Ryan McGinley

“To me, the whole idea of fame and I think it can be a real test of somebody, of who they are. You know, 'cause some strange things happen. I've seen some peculiar things as far as a person just living their life.”

Thinking Knows Persons Ideas Real Whole Happens Causes Strange Fame Tests Things Happen Peculiar Strange Things

Author:Tobey Maguire

“I'm busier than a busy person. People aren't scared to play this raucous, harsh music over radio speakers, so I think it's the perfect time to get in with some real serious, heavy bands.”

People Thinking Persons Real Play Perfect Serious Band Busy Scared Radio Heavy Speakers Harsh Busier Busy Person

Author:Jason Newsted

“A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.”

Thinking Persons Responsibility Talent

Author:Jessye Norman

“No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music.”

Thinking Want Writing Persons Pieces Urges

Author:Leo Ornstein

“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

“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 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 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

“The more popular a person thinks he is in the blogosphere, the thinner his skin and the thicker his hypocrisy. This should be exactly the opposite: the higher you go the thicker the skin and thinner the hypocrisy.”

Thinking Should Persons Funny Higher Skins Opposites Thoughtful Hypocrisy Blogging

Author:Guy Kawasaki

“I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Persons Character Worry Let Me Agents Description

Author:Vanessa Lengies

“I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Whole Reading Differences Poet Personality Reader Sitting

Author:James Laughlin

“I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.”

Thinking Persons Guy Punk Bad Guys Good Person

Author:Adam Oates

“I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.”

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Author:Tamora Pierce

“I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.”

Thinking Way Persons Able Quality Rough Ruined Admirable

Author:Anna Paquin

“I think I'm a really good partner and very sensitive to the other person's feelings. I want somebody else to be comfortable, to understand about my job, and if they want to come on a set and see me work, they always can.”

Ifs Thinking Want Persons Feelings Jobs Comfortable Partners Sensitive

Author:Franka Potente

“You can't be crazy and wild when you're on work time. But, I like it, in that sense I think it makes you a better person for having matured at a younger age.”

Thinking Persons Age Crazy Better Person Being Crazy Matured

Author:Kay Panabaker

“I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor.”

Thinking Knows Persons Actors Too Much

Author:Molly Parker

“I always tell myself that when you're playing a character, pretend they're on trial and you're giving the best witness of their life. You really need to think about every element of the character and represent them properly, as if they were a real person. You want to give 100 percent of what they're worth and what they deserve as people.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Needs Giving Persons Real Character Elements Percent Deserve Trials Witness Real Person Give 100 Percent

Author:Pauley Perrette

“You should learn to be happy with what you have. Besides, the fact that I'm not a huge star has allowed me to pick and choose the roles I want to do, not the ones some person sitting in a studio office thinks I should do.”

Thinking Want Should Persons Facts Stars Roles Huge Office Picks Sitting Studios

Author:Aidan Quinn

“I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.”

Thinking World Persons Sense Of Humor

Author:Michael J. Fox

“I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.”

Thinking Persons Morbid

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“One of my mother's friends said to me, 'Your ex-boyfriends didn't stand a chance with you and your mother.' And I think I probably was unfair to them because she was the first person and the last person I called about every single thing. Sorry, ex-boyfriends.”

Thinking Firsts Persons Said Lasts Mother Chance Sorry Unfair Exes First Person Ex Boyfriend Your Ex

Author:Lily Rabe

“People think that I'm conceited, and I'm not a nice person.”

People Thinking Persons Nice Conceit Conceited Nice Person

Author:Slick Rick

“I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.”

Thinking Trying Firsts Persons Achieve

Author:Sonny Rollins

“We want the average person to use it and think that it makes the experience of using Pinterest better.”

Thinking Want Persons Use Average Average Person Pinterest

Author:Ben Silbermann

“I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.”

Thinking Writing Persons Art Ends Bigs Artist Pay Novel Middle Consequence Resources Harder Middle Aged

Author:Dana Spiotta

“As an ambiguously non-white actor, I've been able to play light-skinned African American guys, Latinos, and I don't think that I've ever had to play some kind of ethnic stereotype or something that was typed specifically for a person of color.”

Thinking Kind Persons Play Light Able Guy Actors White Color African American Stereotype Latino American Guys Ethnic Stereotypes

Author:Daniel Sunjata

“If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity was to be a good-looking single person between 20 and 35, with excellent muscle-definition and/or an excellent figure, and a large disposable income.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Persons Humanity Conditions Figures Normal Species Definitions Income Excellent Muscles Looking Good Single Person Human Species Disposable Adverts

Author:Francis Spufford

“I'm a person that thinks time is very precious and our only commodity... It's so upsetting when I feel like something has wasted my time.”

Thinking Feels Persons Upset My Time Commodity Like Something Wasted My Time

Author:Lorene Scafaria

“Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive.”

Ifs Thinking Way Trying Wells Persons Life Is Imagine Sincere Compassionate Sincerely Life Is Like Satirical

Author:Curtis Sittenfeld

“In the last few years, losing my father, going through a divorce and not getting some jobs I really wanted, is making me a much more interesting person, I think. This all really does feel like a rebirth, a new chapter.”

Thinking Feels Years Persons Doe Wanted Jobs Lasts Father Interesting Losing Divorce Chapters Rebirth Going Through Divorce

Author:John Stamos

“Fear can be used to get into your attention. Any way a person can get you to think of them, allows them to drain you.”

Thinking Way Persons Used Attention Drains

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you can be agreeable to each and every person or situation with which you come into contact - no matter how "difficult" it is or how much you think you are in the "right" - then you are demonstrating control.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Matter Difficult Situation Buddhism Balance Contact Demonstrating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The sign of an advanced spiritual person is that they don't think they're an advanced spiritual person until after liberation.”

Thinking Persons Spiritual Buddhism Balance Liberation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“How can you possibly be happy if you think you're a person? Because we all know, just by definition, that people are definitely not happy because they take everything too seriously. They take themselves seriously.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Persons Happiness Buddhism Definitions Not Happy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into any bookstore or library, calculate how many lifetimes the average person would need to read all the fiction contained therein. To think that one has anything to contribute, to any genre or tradition, takes genuine hubris.”

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Author:Laura Lippman

“I think once every person on the planet sees 'New Moon' and there's nobody left who hasn't see it, then I think they'll be able to go see 'Ninja.'”

Thinking Persons Able Left Planets Moon New Moon Ninja

Author:Joel Silver

“My parents were divorcing, and I think at certain times of your life you do attract the wrong type of person. You don't know any better, and you don't know how you'd like to be treated.”

Thinking Knows Persons Certain Parent Know How Type Treated Time Of Your Life

Author:Lisa Snowdon

“I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.”

Thinking Kind Persons Country Remember Chicago Dirt Dirt Roads

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“If I were God, I would just be up there scratching my head, thinking, 'What the hell am I supposed to do with this?' For everyone helping an old lady across the street, there's someone else bludgeoning a person to death. And sometimes they're the same. How can He separate us all out?”

Ifs Thinking Persons Sometimes Helping Hell Streets Old Lady

Author:Michael Shannon

“A lot of guys are very intimidated by an attractive woman, and they dehumanise her because our culture perceives beautiful women as commodities. But I think if you're able walk up to a person and get to know them, and you see their flaws and their impurities, and realise that they're like you, then you can humanise them again.”

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Author:Neil Strauss

“I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them... I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price.”

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Author:Malcolm Turnbull

“I'm a crack shot and I've won medals for shooting. But I don't think I could shoot a person.”

Thinking Persons Shots Shooting Cracks Medal

Author:Gene Vincent

“Honestly, every person, every individual has a process, and my philosophy, whether it's an actor or an animator, is you try to understand the process that person has so you can get the most out of them, but I think you have to sort of manipulate that process with honesty.”

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Author:Gore Verbinski

“You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.”

Thinking Men Way Persons Larger Than Life

Author:Benjamin Walker

“Black, white, yellow, brown - we wanted somebody who would do right by us. And I think because Obama was that person, whether he was black or white, he was chosen”

Thinking Persons Wanted Black White Chosen Brown Yellow Black Or White Black White

Author:Will Ferrell

“I think it just came with me evolving as a person and me understanding that it's not right to judge or to say anything derogatory about other people, especially if I don't know them.”

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Author:Will Ferrell

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