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“Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrians Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England.”

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Author:Sara Sheridan

“I'm an anarchist and I do think things such as Occupy Wall Street are about getting a little closer to the solution.”

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Author:Woody Harrelson

“Once we actually have the production script after many rewrites, at that point is when I start to decide what the look and colors will be. I work like a painter, even though I'm working in three dimensions. I'm working with chairs. I'm working with walls. But even things like the floor or the walls that people might think are not important, they actually do influence the visual look of the film. These are also things that I have to think about.”

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Author:Pedro Almodovar

“I'd really rather that nobody had a gun, and then nobody would have to worry about it. That would be more my theory. In America, there's this knee-jerk response that more walls and more guns make people safer, and I'm entirely suspect of that way of thinking.”

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Author:Ethan Hawke

“That's for the best. Otherwise they might realize they're in prison. It can't be helped. You women are used to harems and prisons. A person can spend his whole life between four walls. If he doesn't think or feel that he's a prisoner, then he's not a prisoner. But then there are people for whom the whole planet is a prison, who see the infinite expanse of the universe, the millions of stars and galaxies that remain forever inaccessible to them. And that awareness makes them the greatest prisoners of time and space.”

“Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.”

Thinking Men Easy Poverty Failing Streets Wall Honor Circumstances Integrity Slave Debt Be A Man Millionaire

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is in bed that we learn to bear the inevitable. We are learning this all the time while we lie with our face turned to the wall thinking we are doing nothing.”

Thinking Faces Lying Wall Bears Bed Inevitable Doing Nothing

Book:What I Have Gathered

Source: What I Have Gathered

“I think there's the element of the excitement of what I'm going to see, and with the special effects where you see men flying and walking through walls and shooting flame or whatever they do, especially the younger audiences, which make up a bulk of the moviegoers, they love that sort of thing.”

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Author:Stan Lee

“The rich get richer and the poor get the picture. I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great.”

Thinking Poor Rich Streets Wall Get Rich Occupy Wall Street

Author:Simon Baker

“What's cool about renting is that you don't care about your house getting destroyed. So I think that is the number-one thing. Just going "Sure, you can jump off the roof. I think that's safe! Let's just paint on the walls! I bet the beer bottle will break before it shatters the window!" Not caring about the environment is a plus. And a ton of booze. And underage kids. That just ups the excitement value of the party, like, "Oh my God, we could all go to prison."”

Thinking Care Kids Values House Party Numbers Break Environment One Thing Wall Safe Window Prison Paint Don't Care Caring Destroyed Beer Excitement Plus Bottles Roof Booze Not Caring

Author:Adam DeVine

“I believe your success is based off what your goals are. Are you trying to feed your family or have plaques on the wall and be broke? In that case, I think the game is in a better place. We have all heard of famous artists who are broke. Then we know of artists who may have had only a song or two on radio, but have a million or two dollars off that quick come up.”

Thinking Knows Trying Believe May Two Artist Song Games I Believe Goal Millions Cases Heard Wall Dollars Come Up Radio Broke Our Family Better Place Famous Artist

Author:Yo Gotti

“I know that whenever I think about death, I come up against a stone wall.”

Thinking Knows Wall Stones Come Up Stone Walls

Author:Christopher Walken

“Drag is like breaking the fourth wall in theater where we're letting you know straight up that this is an illusion. People are attracted to that because they know it's the truth of who they are also. No one is who they think they are. That's why people are attracted to drag.”

People Thinking Knows Wall Illusion Theater Fourth Drag Straight Up

Author:RuPaul

“I simply think that there are things in this world that are relics. We have unsettling remnants of Atlantis. They have found things off Bermuda, great walls and things of that sort. This seems to indicate that there were races and cultures that went before us. And to me, that's an unsettling idea.”

Thinking World Ideas Seems Culture Found Race This World Wall Relics Remnants Atlantis Great Wall Bermuda

Author:Stephen King

“A writer, or a beginning writer, is faced by the huge walls of self-consciousness. Most people think, "What if I say the wrong thing? What if I don't sound erudite and sophisticated? I'll be considered a fool." In time, with a lot of practice, you realize that's your foolishness is your gift.”

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Author:Richard Bach

“There may be something universal about idealizing the past, but I think it's taken to an absurd degree in New York, which is what I'm poking fun at. The hole-in-the-wall bars I went to in the 90s that smelled like sewage now enjoy legendary status, as if times were had there that could never be had anywhere else.”

Ifs Thinking May Past Fun Enjoy Taken New York Wall Degrees Universal Bars Holes Absurd Legendary Sewage Poking Fun

Author:Vestal McIntyre

“When I'm standing in the middle of the salt flats, where you swear that the pupils of your eyes have turned white because of the searing heat that is rising from the desert, I think of my childhood, I think of my mother, my father, my grandparents; I think of the history that we hold there and it is beautiful to me. But it is both a blessing and a burden to be rooted in place. It's recognizing the pattern of things, almost feeling a place before you even see it. In Southern Utah, on the Colorado plateau where canyon walls rise upward like praying hands, that is a holy place to me.”

“Things happen along the way in our path. Instead of looking at it as a wall that's being put up in front of us, look at it as as opportunity to scale new heights and to climb that wall - to see and do things you didn't think you were capable of.”

Thinking Way Looks Happens Opportunity Path Fronts Wall Capable Scales Things Happen Height Climbs

Author:Robin Roberts

“I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists.”

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Author:Jayson Blair

“Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside; or a grimy palace amid the same with a regiment of housemaids always working to smear the dirt together so that it may be unnoticed; which, think you, is the most refined, the most fit for a gentleman of those two dwellings?”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)

“Maybe we should be directing our anger elsewhere - like toward Wall Street. Why is it we never think of Big Business when we think of welfare recipients? Companies take more of our tax dollars, and in much more questionable ways, than do those who are trying to heat their apartments with a kerosene stove.”

Thinking Way Should Trying Bigs Business Company Streets Wall Taxes Dollars Welfare Heat Elsewhere Apartment Big Business Questionable Stoves Tax Dollars Welfare Recipients

Author:Michael Moore

“I think people have a little wall they throw up real quick if they see swords and sorcery.”

People Ifs Thinking Littles Real Wall Sorcery

Author:Jeff Smith

“I wanted to be an archaeologist. But in school you have to take a tremendous amount of statistics for that, and I am not good at statistics. So I hit a real wall with archaeology. It's probably like wanting to be an architect - you think it's all fun and games, and then you have to get out a calculator and you're done.”

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Author:Sloane Crosley

“When we're believing, we're not really thinking, because the belief has walls: "This is what I believe." So what I believe is like a box, and we're taking the energy of our thinking and putting into a box of beliefs, pretending that we're thinking. But we're really stifling our own energy. We create these mental stresses and frustrations, because we're blocking our spirit, so to speak.”

Thinking Believe Spirit Belief Energy Speak I Believe Wall Stress Boxes Block Frustration Pretending Stifling

Author:John Trudell

“I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls.”

Thinking Humans Done Stories Human Beings Wall Caves Innate

Author:Cameron Diaz

“If Occupy Wall Street was actually a march, and people from all around the country could collect and march toward Washington, D.C., as part of this massive movement of people . . . I think that kind of pressure is much more powerful than a sit-in that seems to be a little unorganized.”

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Author:Scarlett Johansson

“Think of life and the world as a wall and that we're all climbing up the wall. So just put one hand in front of the other, keep your eye on the prize, and then get there. And then turn around and help the other people - because you're already there, so start helping.”

People Thinking World Helping Hands Eye Turns Fronts Wall Prize Climbing Climbing Up Eye On The Prize

Author:Laura Benanti

“I think everyone would love to see Jeff Gordon lose or get run into the wall, but I think he uses that - similar to me.”

Thinking Use Running Loses Wall

Author:Bo Jackson

“I think it modern society as a whole, but definitively in Brazil, spaces are so well divided and there are so many barriers, and so many divisions, so many lines and so many borderlines, basically telling you that you should be here but not here. This is my space and this is your space, and this is expressed very dramatically in architecture, we have a very kind of aggressive, almost medieval concept for architecture, which is basically keeping people out. So you get high walls, fences, and electric fences, and divisions like that.”

“I think that the way that I write stories is by instinct. You have some basic ideas - a character, or an image, or a situation that sounds compelling - and then you just feel your way around until you find the edges of your story. It's like going into a dark room... you stumble around until you find the walls and then inch your way to the light switch.”

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Author:Dan Chaon

“I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false, while we don't mind how hard the truth is for the neighbors outside our walls. I think we have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.”

Thinking Mind Hard Hands Pain Used Lying Evil Rooms Wall Truth Is Delight Neighbor Drawing Wicked Urges Village Dirt Ugliness Coarse

Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“I think so much of our society is geared towards mainstream media and pop culture and so forth. And there's a huge divide between the artist and the fan. And with indie culture that wall is removed. You actually do see the musicians walking around enjoying the show. It's a distinctly different culture and for the 99% of Nirvana fans that caught up with them with Nevermind, my book is gonna give them a whole different take on Kurt [Cobain] and the band.”

“I think my gift expressed itself in every way possible. When I was a little child, my mother said I used to draw on the walls.”

Thinking Way Children Littles Said Used Mother Wall Draws

Author:Floyd Norman

“The arts speak across epochs. If you think that people started to build a cathedral in 1315 and the people worked on that cathedral, it wasn't going to be finished until 1585. So they were thinking 200 years from now. Maybe by the time I die, this wall might be put up.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Art Might Dies Speak Wall Finished Cathedrals

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“I think the money for the solutions for global poverty is on Wall Street. Wall Street allocates capital. And we need to get capital to the ideas that are successful, whether it's microfinance, whether it's through financial literacy programs, Wall Street can be the engine that makes capital get to the people who need it.”

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Author:Kabir Sehgal

“It's so difficult to write good music. It's also really difficult to think about how to do it without violating the sanctity of the fourth wall.”

Thinking Writing Difficult Wall Fourth Sanctity

Author:Dan Harmon

“Will I criticize Hillary Clinton on her position of TPP, or the lack of position? Will I criticize her on her views of Wall Street? Will I criticize her on foreign policy? That's what democracy is about, but taking cheap shots at people, making it personal, I don't think that's what politics should be about.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events; I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nothing, that I actually know less than the average schoolboy, and that what I do know is superficial, and that every second question is beyond me. I am incapable of thinking deliberately; my thoughts run into a wall. I can grasp the essence of things in isolation, but I am quite incapable of coherent, unbroken thinking. I can't even tell a story properly; in fact, I can scarcely talk.”

People Thinking Knows Feels I Can Facts Stories Running Memories Heard Events Wall Essence Average Isolation I Have Learned Incapable Superficial My Thoughts Every Second Unbroken No Memory

Author:Franz Kafka

“I don't think men should think too much about their hair. They shouldn't think. They should just open bottles for women, hammer nails into wall and chop wood.”

Thinking Men Should Too Much Hair Wall Woods Bottles Nails Hammers

Author:Kemp Muhl

“This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has a poster of him in their room so, why not join the club!”

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Author:Vanessa Hudgens

“I think that life is a paradox and you have to embrace that in your work and your belief systems... You can't be a literalist, and that's the trouble that people always find themselves in. That's why people always hit a wall with any of my stuff, because you can't take it literally.”

People Thinking Life Is Belief Stuff Trouble Wall Embrace Paradox Belief Systems

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“There is the plain fool who does the wrong thing at all times anywhere, but there is the Wall Street fool who thinks he must trade all the time.”

Thinking Doe Streets Wall Fool Trade All Time Wrong Things

Author:Jesse Lauriston Livermore

“Joe Biden says the Wall Street crisis is the result of George W. Bush's tax cuts, which makes as much sense as blaming the rising price of fairy dust. But as a wise man once asked, Who gives a rat's patoot what Joe Biden thinks?”

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Author:Jonah Goldberg

“(Walls) show that politicians have reached the end of their ideas about what to do about a difficult situation with a neighbor. ... They can't think what else to do.”

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Author:Frederick Winslow Taylor

“When I think about the reference to baroque, I'm most interested in how art was integrated into domestic life. That's why I like fresco, because fresco is part of the wall. It's art, but it's decoration at the same time.”

Thinking Art Wall Integrated Decoration Baroque Domestic Life

Author:Camille Henrot

“You need a blueprint to build a house because you need to know how far the concrete is going to be poured and you need to know how think the walls have to be.”

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Author:Isaiah Washington

“Is there anybody listening? Is there anyone who sees what's going on? Read between the lines, criticize the words they're selling. Think for yourself, and feel the walls become sand beneath your feet.”

Thinking Feels Lines Feet Wall Listening Selling Sand Criticize Between The Lines Think For Yourself Read Between The Lines

Author:Geoff Tate

“"Contemporary art" for me is a kind of historical term that describes the 40 years between the Berlin Wall going up and then coming down. I'm not sure who will come up with a better term to describe art, but I think contemporary art is actually done for.”

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Author:Liam Gillick

“I think a lot of funds get their ideas from Wall Street. I just like to find my own ideas. I read a lot. A lot of news. I just follow my nose. A lot of times it's a dead end, but sometimes there's value there.”

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Author:Michael Burry

“It's obvious that a lot of Tea Party members tend to be elderly. You've seen that famous sign, 'Tell the government to keep its hands off my Medicare.' And I think as long as the government does keep its hands off their Medicare, they're fine with talking about low taxes. But once they start to realize that the Republicans really do want to not just cut Medicare, but essentially abolish it, you know, I just think those people are not going to be part of the Tea Party. They're going to be over with Occupy Wall Street.”

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