Thinking Quotes

I think women love glamour. I mean, not all women, but I think this is something that women share.

It's shocking when someone who is really bad thinks they're really good. It's heartbreaking, because singing is such a vulnerable thing to do.

I think that the audience wants to see women being put into real situations where they can relate to them, rather than seeing some glamorous woman in a 'Bond' film.

If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.

I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to.

I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.

What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there. And I think if there's anything artistic, it's in that middle space.

I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.

I have a lot of optimism about new doctors because I think it's really clear that it's a lot of hard work and no guarantee of a lot of money.

I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.

I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.

Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support.

I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities.

To wait - only to wait - without even the final merciful deprivation of hope.Sometimes I think that some secret court must have tried and condemned me, unheard, to this heavy sentence.

Similarly, I think I'm lucky that I've never had a crisis about whether the only reason I'm successful is because I'm crazy hot. It's not something that crosses my mind.

We may think all religions beneficial, and believe of one alone that it is true.

It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.

If I have another child, I doubt I'll get married again. I don't think men particularly want to be with me.

I still don't really think about acting that much. I just do it.

I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot.

I think any time you take on touchy subjects, you're going to offend some people, or you're going to please others.

When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of the book.

I love having a president who I think is smarter than I am.

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write, and there are very few of them.

I think the last couple of years of life for many, many people are the same as they were 50, 60, 70 years ago. They could be really tough because of infirmity.

That's what makes life so hard for women, that instead of thinking that this is the way things are, we always think it's the way we are.

These are my words; this is their world, a world in which we can wear our gender on our sleeves, unabashedly, as we go about the business of thinking out loud.

And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.

And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if I absorbed completely what mattered most to me, and the rest could go.

I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them.

I think that we really fool ourselves about our ability to be safe and secure nowadays.

I'm very optimistic. I think if you would describe me, my pretty consistent affect is that I'm a pretty happy person.

I think one of the hardest things about doing a book in the first person is that to a certain extent each day, when you begin to do your work, you're climbing into somebody else's skin.

I think there are some stories that need to be told by a specific person as opposed to in the third person.

I can't think of a single downside to motherhood now.

Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it.

I think we now know the limits also of intelligence and rhetoric.

Barack Obama presents as kind of a cool character, and I think that that's his natural personality.

I think the very best thing about the internet is that I can read all the London papers every day if I want to.

Frankly, I'm mainly telling the story to myself. Thinking about audience is too daunting, and worst case, invites you to homogenize, to soften the hard edges of things.

I do think there's some aspect of being a novelist that is a little crazy making.

I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on the work.

There's no right or wrong - I think people can be messy in a very soulful way. The point in the end is to make people feel something, and there's so many different ways to do that.

You should always have a pencil skirt. I think knees are the ugliest part of anybody's anatomy, so I'd look for ones that hit at the knee or right below.

I think it's somebody else's job to decide what my image is.

I think when you look at architectural photography it doesn't help to have piles of old clothes lying on the floor. Architectural photography sets up an artifice.

I think in the long run, it will be better for us if we solve our problems without suffering through some terrible disaster. I like the idea of change without Apocalypse.

We look at a person and see the person we want to see. I've had to deal with that my whole life, walking in a room and girls thinking I'm going to steal their boyfriends!

I think you can go to school at any age.

I think I was made to live in New York. I love it.