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Thinking Quotes by Ann Patchett
- You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to…
- I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress.…
- Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in…
- I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.
- You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws…
- I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
- He doesn’t know to want for more because nothing in his life has been as much as this...on that night he thinks that no one…
- That is one thing I've learned, that it is possible to really understand things at certain points, and not be able to retain them, to…
- Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.…
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- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think. — J. J. Abrams
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I don't think I have a signature. — J. J. Abrams
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle
- I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I… — J. J. Abrams
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams