Quotes about thinking
thinking talking church-today
I think it's hypocritical and inconsistent for us to attack this one group of people over any other group of people that are within our churches today. If we were talking about one of their sin issues we wouldn't have addressed this at all. I find that hypocritical and inconsistent. Alan Chambers
thinking long-ago oatmeal
I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instance or oatmeal. Then when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness. Alan Bradley
thinking politics lists
The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
thinking sky doors
Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.
thinking theatre hierarchy
I think the writer's quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I'd have thought, slightly more risky. Alan Bennett
thinking depends
I think everything depends on money. Alan Bean
thinking ideas use
I think of a plot, I think of an idea, and then I wonder, How can I get that onto the stage? . . . Whatever devices you use should always be there to serve the theme. If the theme has been overtaken by the device, then something's wrong. Alan Ayckbourn
thinking interesting events
Authorities arrest me, release me, and then invite me back to host public events. I think it's interesting. Alain Robert
thinking turns
Things are never going to turn out how you think they will. Alan Arkin
thinking two figures
Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials -- they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think -- rather than letting you figure it out on your own.
thinking doe mystery
I don't think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare. It keeps it more of a surprise. I don't feel like it has to be a mystery.
thinking careers acting
I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them. Alan Ball
thinking trying stories
I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
thinking soul window
I think sexuality is a window into someone's soul.
thinking creating keys
What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind? Alan Alda
thinking years feelings
When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years.
thinking names people
What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
thinking interesting lucky
A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation, which isn't as interesting, and you've got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
thinking play republican
I've played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
thinking soul
I don't think I do have a soul. Al Purdy
thinking technology available
When dealing in the technology, it becomes a question of whether you overuse something. I think that's worse than having something technologically available to you and not using it. Al Michaels
thinking skills people
There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how. Al Seckel
thinking people deals
I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to. Al Sharpton
thinking order ministry
My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
thinking color people
I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
thinking creating united-states
I think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world...
thinking cities two
People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts. I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
thinking attorney
I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don't want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.
thinking work-out way
The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work. And I didn't think about the material as much. But sometimes I've thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn't work out. Al Pacino
thinking people comedian
I used to think of myself as a comedian. I've always admired comedians. Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There's a liberation in that.
thinking play scripts
I wouldn't be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast. Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
thinking healthy actors
Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating. There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
thinking play people
I personally think if you're given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way, the play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There's no doubt in my mind about it.