Thinking Quotes

People think that I'm very serious.

The more you relate to something or somebody speaks to you, it means more. I think that putting yourself out there like heart-on-sleeve, is really important.

I think the media put more pressure on women, especially in regards to the way they look and how they're supposed to behave.

I think it's really important to always own up to the things that you're not good at and the feelings that you have which are ugly.

I think being in a place where there is nothing happening is very inspiring because you have to make your own fun, you are not reliant on imitating any other bands.

After all that, you would think daughter would want to spend time with me, but she's busy. I get it.

Every woman needs to think about her career above everything. And I'll say it again...Kate [Siegel] is unemployed.

I do not think anyone should feel pressured into doing it but I am the sucker who will stop on the street and sign up to direct debits.

I think it is outrageous - to lock people's money away and change the rules on them. So, on point of principle, I stopped putting money into my pension.

I have to say, the other day I was reading some negative comments, and I was thinking they were really funny. So I guess they don't anymore.

I think the fame aspect, there was definitely a period when I had to get used to it. My family had to get used to it, too. It's exciting.

Pickup lines never work...I think someone clever, witty and funny is very attractive.

It definitely happens more often than you would think when someone comes up and you're like: "He's really attractive and seems really nice," and it just doesn't work if he smells bad.

I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up there every night, it's unique and that you care.

I think just being on 'One Tree Hill' has given me a lot of confidence.

I don't think anyone gets married thinking that they will get divorced.

People always say you can't do a red lip if you have red hair but I've never shied away from it. I think you can absolutely do that. It's more about hair colour and complexion.

I think as much as we're cyber connecting it's really nice to just sit and talk, and have that ritual.

I wouldn't be a part of anything that had acts of violence toward children. I don't think I would do a horror film, either. That just doesn't sit well on my soul.

It's funny when someone says to you 'you're hot' and all that, because I don't think of it in that way.

He's probably the world's most beautiful looking man, yet he doesn't think he's that gorgeous. And to me, he's just smelly, farty Leo.

I look very different from how people expect me to be... Clearly they think I'm a great big fat viking.

Having just had a baby, I'm not going to be thinking about my arse.

I think the mad wives and mistresses are my hysterics - even the fictionalized ones. I want to trace how they were silenced, I want to find for them an escape route.

I think that writing and publishing are different. I think I will always write; I might not always publish. The idea of not publishing is wonderful!

I think for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in our society, another existential crisis.

People are depressed for many reasons, one of which I think is how we have been taught to react to trauma, to stress.

I think the online space can be a free space, in that we are not reliant online on the publishing industry or readers who just don't get it.

I don't think men experience the embargo on channeling the autobiography in their literature.

I think genius can have a lot to do with nerve. And permission.

I think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is reviewed.

You don't want to go right, if everyone thinks you're going to go right. You go left, on purpose. Sometimes you can't explain why, and you can't explain what left looks like, but you just do it.

I think we respond well when we do something well.

And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.

And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts.

I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.

I think I'm a soulful singer.

I think it's interesting that the United States and Australia are two of the most individualistic nations in the entire world in terms of national personality.

If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.

I think the reason that very few people really fall in love with anyone is that they're not willing to pay the price.

It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece of sadism, but it would take a miracle to make such a distinction stick.

[On Malcolm Muggeridge:] He thinks he was knocked off his horse by God, like St. Paul on the road to Damascus. His critics think he simply fell off it from old age.

I think joy is just as instructive as pain, and I like it better. I never meant to suffer any more than I could help; my nature was meant for happiness, a daylight art and living.

I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.

Ninety percent of the trouble in this world comes from guys who think they have something to prove.

They think we’re intelligent. So, Marco, keep quiet. We don’t want them to learn the truth.” Rachel

It's so easy to think that your strengths don't matter.

But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.

I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.

I think that it's really important to go away and come back.