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“I think about what I'm eating every day. I still have burgers and stuff that's not good for me sometimes, but I'm always trying to be careful. I don't just eat whatever I want.”

Thinking Want Trying Stills Sometimes Stuff Eating Careful Be Careful Always Trying Burgers

Author:Camilla Luddington

“I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.”

Thinking Trying Fun Interesting Parody Belittle

Author:Mark Leyner

“Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or taking things to a ludicrous extremity.”

People Thinking Trying Sometimes Purpose Extremity Working With Others Saboteurs

Author:Mark Leyner

“I think I was, like, maybe frustrated for many years because I didn't try to direct. And since I made my movie I'm just like, 'It's great.”

Thinking Trying Years Made Direct Frustrated

Author:Melanie Laurent

“I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for several years. Which is trying to find a way to not let the insecurity of my profession get the better of me and make me crazy. I'm trying to find a way to maintain my own personal balance in the midst of everything.”

Thinking Way Trying Years Wells Bigs My Own Crazy Balance Overcoming Profession My Way Insecurity Midst Hurdle

Author:Rebecca De Mornay

“I would like Obama to be tougher on going up against the Republicans, I don't think he should try to be so moderate.”

Thinking Should Trying Republican Moderates

Author:Rose McGowan

“I think when we use 'stress', we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many different things into one big category.”

Thinking Trying Kind Different Use Bigs Fit Stress Different Things Categories Dummy

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“You know, we're very private, and I think that we really separate and try to keep our privacy to ourselves. There's things that people assume a lot of times, and we understand that people are interested, but we really try to keep our family life private as much as we can.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Assuming Our Family Privacy Family Life

Author:Tim McGraw

“In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.”

Thinking Way Want Trying Activity Studios Drawing Efficient Sculpture Casting Repetitive Plasters

Author:Bruce Nauman

“That's what we want to do here at Johnson Space Center. I think what we have always brought to NASA and brought to the country is trying to push the boundaries, trying to go to the next level.”

Thinking Want Trying Country Next Space Levels Boundaries Johnson Nasa Next Level

Author:Ellen Ochoa

“The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh. I think there's an element of that in there.”

People Thinking Knows Want Trying Wells School Laughing Elements Harder Cute Rely Shy Hanging Out Making People Laugh

Author:Kaitlin Olson

“I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing.”

Thinking World Trying Has Beens Pieces Figures Complicated Hearing Listeners Terrific

Author:Leo Ornstein

“When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.”

Thinking Trying Remember Mother Found Sick Journal

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“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

“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

“When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms of a movie with a soundtrack, and try to transfer that to words.”

Thinking Writing Trying Sometimes Character Song Term Creating Theme Visuals Transfers Soundtracks Creating Characters

Author:Marisha Pessl

“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 have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.”

Thinking Way Trying Body Three Language Player Tools My Way Way Of Thinking Body Language

Author:Alan Lewis

“I don't think there are beautiful women out there trying to lure men into any kind of conspiracy. I think people are out there just trying to meet someone new and interesting and live in the real world.”

People Thinking Men World Trying Kind Real Beautiful Interesting Real World Conspiracy Beautiful Women Lure

Author:Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

“I think the traditional explanation is that demons just find someone, they pick on them and try to break down their spirit so they can... take control of their bodies. Why exactly? I don't know.”

Thinking Knows Trying Body Spirit Break Picks Traditional Explanation Demon Breaking Down Take Control

Author:Oren Peli

“I was constantly, always and forever, trying to perform the musical 'Annie' for anyone who would listen, and I have a terrible singing voice. It was the first thing that made me think I wanted to be an actress.”

Thinking Trying Firsts Made Wanted Voice Forever Terrible Singing Musical Actresses Annie Always And Forever

Author:Sarah Paulson

“I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density.”

Thinking Trying Important Body Term Can Do Space Figures Behavior Unique Bones Data Preserves Muscles Measuring Density

Author:John L. Phillips

“So I think it's important to communicate with the people in terms of what the real facts are on these proposals and try to have a discussion and a dialogue that gives people information. I think they're hungry for that rather than just political rhetoric.”

People Thinking Giving Trying Important Real Facts Political Term Information Communicate Hungry Dialogue Discussion Rhetoric Proposal Political Rhetoric

Author:John Podesta

“I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done.”

Thinking Trying Done Serious Things Done Legislators

Author:Rob Portman

“I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh.”

Thinking Knows Trying Firsts Ideas Actors Laughing Pretentious Have A Laugh

Author:Rosamund Pike

“I think Aussies try to stay humble.”

Thinking Trying Humble Stay Humble Aussies

Author:Teresa Palmer

“I keep wondering how to explain the experience of child abuse from the inside. I'm going to try to explain what my world was like when I was sexually abused. The thing you have to remember is that this was the thinking of a child.”

Thinking World Trying Children Remember Wonder Abuse Child Abuse Sexually Abused Children

Author:Robin Quivers

“I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I would like to read.”

Thinking Writing Trying Kind Stories Audience

Author:Brent Runyon

“Part of ego is displaying the ego. I've got ego, and I think I'm really good. But maybe I fall down in trying to sell it to people.”

People Thinking Trying Fall Ego Sells Falling Down

Author:Edward Ruscha

“A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. You've got to be seen as dark and slightly dangerous. But I'm not like that and I've realised that I don't need to put that on. People will buy the books whether they see a photo of you dressed in black or not.”

People Thinking Needs Trying Book Black Dark Dangerous Crime Realised

Author:Ian Rankin

“I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?”

Thinking Knows Trying Sound Existence Band Mature

Author:Adam Rich

“Anybody who gives away money is mostly looking at things where they think they can make a difference. I'm trying to help people who helped me, educational institutions that helped me with scholarships, or organizations that were very useful to me in growing up.”

People Thinking Giving Trying Helping Differences Growing Up Growing Organization Institutions Educational Making A Difference Scholarship Educational Institutions

Author:David Rubenstein

“I think sometimes when I go to make a move on something, people try to disqualify any talent that I have or any hard work that I've done.”

People Thinking Trying Sometimes Hard Done Moving Talent Hard Work Make A Move

Author:Gabrielle Reece

“I think about everything first. I think about the scenario: the story and the characters, what I'm trying to say and I'll think about that for a couple of days until it's all locked in and then when I get to an instrument it'll just fall out. But the song's kind of all ready there in my head.”

Thinking Trying Firsts Kind Character Stories Song Fall Ready Couple Instruments Locked Scenarios

Author:Graham Russell

“The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means.”

Thinking Trying Mean Has Beens Reality Circumstances Painful Spending Ministers Things To Do Right Thing Prime Prime Minister Private Sector Borrowing Chunks Bail

Author:John Redwood

“I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.”

Thinking Trying Artist Producers Songwriters Publicists

Author:L.A. Reid

“I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them.”

Thinking Want Trying Book Territory Heartbreaking

Author:Richard Russo

“I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.”

Thinking Writing Trying Character Ability Vacation Sensibility Another Time

Author:Ron Rash

“I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row, then down another, and try not to look up too often to see how far you still have to go.”

Thinking Writing Trying Looks Long Stills Novel Look Up Mules Greyhounds

Author:Ron Rash

“I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.”

Thinking Want Trying Made Done Chance Embarrassed Torment Another Chance

Author:Sam Raimi

“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

“I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.”

Ifs Thinking Men Feels Trying Labels Wizards Rust Tin Tin Man

Author:Ali Smith

“I think I would be making a mistake to actively try and just do everything completely different from 'Gilmore Girls.”

Thinking Trying Different Would Be Girl Mistake Making Mistakes Gilmore Girls

Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in at the time.”

Thinking Way Trying Band Approach

Author:Chad Smith

“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

“I try to speak of a love that not necessarily romantic. I think there is so much love between people and so much love people want to give but it's harder and harder these days to show that, to celebrate that, you know?”

People Thinking Knows Want Giving Trying Shows Speak Love Is Harder Celebrate These Days Much Love

Author:Emeli Sande

“I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Needs Feels Trying Matter Able Guy Player Response Strive Coaches Know It All

Author:Gordon Strachan

“Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.”

Thinking Writing Trying Cures Curse

Author:Julianna Baggott

“The rich aren't happy so they try and get richer thinking it will make a difference. The poor aren't happy. They try and get rich thinking that will make a difference.”

Thinking Trying Happiness Differences Poor Rich Buddhism Making A Difference Get Rich

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find out what you really think or who you are.”

Thinking Writing Trying Mean Facts Novel Who You Are About Yourself Autobiography Concealed One Deep

Author:Robert Penn Warren

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