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Thinking Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
- Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted…
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such…
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more…
- I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative…
- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,' or 'Nobody under…
- I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology…
- If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your…
- Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways…
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one:…
- We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for fuel but also…
- There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time.
- I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write.
- The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.
- You always think, 'Oh, if only I had a little chalet in the mountains! How great that would be and I'd do all this writing'…
- For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control.... I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go…
- And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look…
- I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.
- I think of bad news as a huge bird, with the wings of a crow and the face of my Grade Four school teacher, sparse…
- They are hypocrites, they think the Church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and not go wandering…
- I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used…
- But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on…
- The alcohol smell is on my fingers, cold and remote, piercing like a steel pin going in. It smells like white enamel basins. When I…
- When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters,…
- All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. All of them? Sure, he says. Think about it. There's…
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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