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trying bottles adequate
I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke. Diablo Cody
thinking avid people
I've been an avid consumer of young adult literature since I was one, and I think some people leave that stuff behind when they become old adults, but I never did. I was always interested in the fantasy world created in those novels.
thinking people giving
I think when you take people who are damaged and you give them money and freedom, it can be a toxic cocktail.
thinking people satisfaction
I think sometimes people really require the satisfaction of closure.
thinking singing crowds
I am a karaoke purist and I don't like that. I don't think it's enough for you to just be there with your friends singing. I think you need to be in front of a crowd of hostile strangers for it to truly count.
tv-shows tvs shows
It's actually much harder to develop a TV show than I had anticipated.
technology men thinking
To aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily. If you think about it, even ten years ago or twenty years ago, there was a middle man, there was a publisher, there were studios, there was this world of rejection letters. Now, we're in a place where we have the technology and the ability to go shoot our own movies or to put stuff on YouTube or a blog, if you're a writer, or self-publish.
thinking adults commodity
I don't think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is.
thinking want recognition
I think it's great when writers get recognition; it doesn't happen very often. I just don't want that writer to be me. Let it be Aaron Sorkin or, you know, somebody good.
thinking work-out ambitious
I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.
thinking would-be insufferable
I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did.
thinking play looks
I want Maggie Gyllenhaal. I don't know why. I don't think she necessarily looks like me or acts like me, I just think she's a cool actress and she could play me, so there you go.
thinking sitting theater
And I think I'm an adrenaline junkie, and there's nothing that will spike your adrenaline more than sitting in a theater and listen to an audience react to something you've written.
trying email sirens
I try to avoid Twitter. I occasionally can't resist the siren call of email.
thinking stories hollywood
I think it's pretty obvious that women's stories are not necessarily being told in Hollywood and women are not necessarily being put in the leadership positions they deserve in mainstream film.
thinking people forever
You make a first impression and people never forget it. If people want to think of me as the wacky 'Juno' lady forever, I could think of worse ways to be labeled.
two track needs
We need to capitalize on the tracks we're really, really good at. At Richmond and Martinsville, our performance and results have not been very good, even though I consider them to be among my two best racetracks. Denny Hamlin
teaching passion blessing
I enjoy being a student and learning. I don't think you should ever stop being a student. That's where the most creative ideas come from. Teaching is a blessing as well because I get to share what I've learned and my passion for creative movement with people. Derek Hough
team mean winning
Nothing means more to me than helping my team win. Derek Fisher
team clear willing
Teams are often pretty clear about what they can do or are willing to do.
thinking player fine
I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me. Derek Bailey
thinking play absence
In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.
thinking people solo
I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.
thinking want way
I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.
thinking stuff electronics
I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.
teaching college support
Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate on research. In fact, the evidence does not support this thesis, except perhaps in major research universities. Derek Bok
thinking white minorities
I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit.
thinking practice effort
Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.
thinking differences issues
There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.
thinking worry anxiety
I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry.
teacher thinking parent
I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out. Derek Jacobi
thinking years giving
I've been a professional actor now for 38 years. A long time. And it's wonderful to earn your living doing something that you love. To think people actually give you money for it!
taken animal order
I'd gone into that restaurant and sat down and the waitress had taken my order and everybody else had seen me with this what must have looked like this creature, this animal, sitting on the top of my head!