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“Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.”

Thinking Used Actors Frank

Author:Matthew Modine

“You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Doe Made Eye Used Wonder Shots Red Flying Used To Be Planes Therapy Pauses Linked Flyers Fear Of Flying Red Eye

Author:Rachel McAdams

“There's a certain way people are used to seeing nude women, and that's in a submissive, coy pose, not looking at the camera. And in this poster, I'm looking dead into the camera with no expression on my face. I think it freaks a lot of people out.”

People Thinking Way Faces Used Certain Seeing Expression Cameras Freak Posters Submissive Posing

Author:Rooney Mara

“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

“Companies, to date, have often used the excuse that they are only beholden to their shareholders, but we need shareholders to think of themselves as stakeholders in the well being of society as well.”

Thinking Needs Wells Used Company Excuse Well Being Shareholders Stakeholder

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families.”

Thinking Lasts Used Support Cost Band Paid Our Family Fund Gigs Misfits

Author:Gerald Caiafa

“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.”

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Author:Terry O'Quinn

“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

“And that is why I think that God has used it in churches because we have seen a lot of healing take place in churches and we have seen a lot of healing take place in families.”

Thinking God Used Church Healing

Author:Kerry Shook

“Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this subterfuge that we are giving them no more than they deserve. It is a meanness which we associate with criminals and vagabonds; a piece of crawling and sneaking...Men whose race is universally known, will unblushingly adopt a false name as a mask, and after a year or two pretend to treat it as an insult if their original and true name be used in its place.”

Source: The Jews

“Nothing scares me, because I used to think I was indestructible. Now I know I'm indestructible, not to mention my spine is indestructible. It's all titanium.”

Thinking Knows Used Scare Spine Indestructible

Author:Jason Priestley

“There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?”

People Thinking Moments Used Walks Rooms One Day I Realized Like Me

Author:Victoria Principal

“I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.”

Thinking Writing Years Book Bigs Used Novel Taken Heard Serious Eating Nine Nine Years

Author:Ian Rankin

“People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more efficient.”

People Thinking Used Company Efficient Schemes Equity Compensation Private Equity

Author:David Rubenstein

“I used to watch people like Richard Burton and Mel Gibson and think, 'I could never do that.”

People Thinking Used Watches

Author:Jerry Reed

“Well, I think one of the reasons Chicago became so popular as a filmmaker location is because New York had been used so many times that Chicago, I think, was rediscovered maybe in the late '60s, early '70s for a long time as a new location.”

Thinking Wells Long Reason Used New York Late Long Time Filmmaker Chicago Location

Author:Richard Roeper

“I think that business leaders today have to be more rounded than they used to be, they have to be completely multi-functional and fast-moving.”

Thinking Today Moving Used Leader Used To Be Business Leaders

Author:Stuart Rose

“I used to wake up and look at our analytics and think, “What if yesterday was the last day anyone used Pinterest?” Like, everyone collectively decided, “We’re done!” Over time I got more confidence.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Done Lasts Used Decided Wake Up Yesterday What If Last Day Analytics Pinterest

Author:Ben Silbermann

“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

“You visualize [pitches]. You see it in your head; you think it...I used to play every pitcher in my mind before I went to the ballpark. I started getting ready for ever game the moment I woke up.”

Thinking Mind Play Moments Used Games Sports Ready Training Preparation Pitcher Ballparks

Author:Hank Aaron

“I have a short temper - I think it's part of the Celtic background. I used to be a lot more angry, but I was quite discreet with it.”

Thinking Used Angry Backgrounds Used To Be Temper Celtic Discreet Short Temper

Author:Julian Lennon

“People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are.”

People Thinking Different Used Song

Author:Tinie Tempah

“I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.”

Thinking Hard Remember Used Certain Habit Opposition Bureaucrats Ukrainian Old Habits

Author:Yulia Tymoshenko

“Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I'm very used to it. I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.”

People Thinking Looks Facts Used Guy Winning Audience Industry Traditional Magazines Comic Awards Respectable Buyers

Author:Jhonen Vasquez

“I'm not a freak. I'm not really crazy or anything. I don't think I'm really abnormal. It's just, like anybody else, I have interests I cultivate, and one of my interests is not getting too used to things. I've sacrificed a lot of things in my life in order to keep that sense of things being unfamiliar.”

Thinking Used Order Interest Crazy Freak Unfamiliar Abnormal

Author:Jim Woodring

“People have got to get used to making low carbon choices. If they have a direct incentive to do so they will think about it. Many times a day you have a choice between a low carbon option and a high carbon option, whether it is at home or at work.”

People Ifs Thinking Home Used Choices Lows Direct Carbon Incentives

Author:Tim Yeo

“People get so used to the dark that they think it's growing brighter. It's possible to fraternize with unbelievers until false doctrine becomes less and less objectionable.”

People Thinking Christian Used Dark Growing Christian Inspirational Doctrine Brighter Unbelievers

Book:The best of Vance Havner

Source: The best of Vance Havner

“I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.”

Thinking Kind Hard Use Able Used Youth Emotional Approach Singing Working It Just Being

Author:K. D. Lang

“I used to have a lot of recurring dreams about Captain Hook when I was a little kid, which I remember very vividly. But I think I just really liked Peter Pan a lot, and 'Hook' was my favorite movie.”

Thinking Littles Dream Kids Remember Used My Favorite Peter Captains Hook Little Kid Recurring Recurring Dreams

Author:Cristin Milioti

“Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?”

Thinking Wells Running Film Used Effects Television Industry Used To Be Digital Visionaries Film And Television Television Industry

Author:Bill Mumy

“I used to be so afraid to say what I really think.”

Thinking Used Used To Be

Author:Chrisette Michele

“I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools as possible across this country and across the world. I think that it's a lost art form because kids aren't as exposed to it as maybe they used to be, or should be. I was exposed heavily to jazz and that's why I love it.”

Thinking World Should Art Important Country Kids School Form Used Lost Music Is Jazz Used To Be Exposed Lost Art Music In Schools

Author:Chrisette Michele