Quotes with thought-tyrants

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  • Arthur Hiller I thought we were making a nice little movie. That's how it was regarded by everyone else, too.
    Arthur Hiller
    Canadian-American television and film director (1923 - 2016)
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  • Adam Clymer I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.
    Adam Clymer
    American journalist (1937 - 2018)
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  • Bruce Sterling I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Aaron McGruder I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
    Aaron McGruder
    American writer, lecturer and producer (1974 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Allan Carr I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.
    Allan Carr
    American theater producer and manager (1937 - 1999)
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  • Adam Clayton I was drawn to things I thought were either sexy or aggressive - or both.
    Adam Clayton
    Irish musician (1960 - )
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  • Busy Philipps I was in New York and I went to a meatball shop with my friend and there was paparazzi there and I thought, 'How did you know that someone was gonna come to this meatball shop?' But I was pregnant and I wanted a meatball sub and let me tell you, it was delicious.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Barbara Walters I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Bette Davis I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
    The lonely life: an autobiography
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • J. R. Tolkien I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
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  • Anne Tyler I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Brooke Shields I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Bill Forsyth I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.
    Bill Forsyth
    Scottish film director and writer (1946 - )
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  • Bertie Carvel I'm a socialist. I'm amazed at how the spirit of socialism is alive and well in New York. I had always thought I wouldn't want to be here without a lot of money, but I was wrong about that.
    Bertie Carvel
    English stage and screen actor (1977 - )
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  • Buck Owens I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Bryan Adams I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • V.S. Naipaul I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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