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- Nov 07, 2020
Mind Quotes
What occupies the mind, for better or worse.
Quotes about the "mind" here range widely — a lifelong search for hidden meaning sits alongside a startlingly honest admission that resentment has occupied more mental space than friendship ever did. For related reflection, see Body quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I brought 'Sex and the City' to HBO, I wanted to do something independent, where I could be like, 'I don't care if anybody watches this thing. Just let me do something that I would love to see.' Honestly, the success of 'Sex and the City' was what was most surprising to me. It was sort of like the anti-TV-show in my mind.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Keep in mind, when two enemies are talking, they're not fighting, they're talking. They might be yelling and screaming, but at least they're talking. It's when the talking ceases that the ground becomes fertile for violence.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Times might be tough, your head and thoughts might be spinning, but I find it's physically impossible to do that spiral thing when your mind is focused on giving and creating opportunity.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're guilty of something, you can focus on that, but if something terrible happens, and you can't imagine how you could have changed it, that's very difficult for the mind. In some ways, it's more difficult not to be at fault because it's a subtler thing.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I came up with Burnley, I had my mind set that I've got a job to do in helping to keep Burnley up.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Divorce is hard enough when you're an adult - never mind when you're a child. That was probably when my shyness started, when I was at my shyest.
- Nov 07, 2020
So I do make a real effort that all of my videos are things that, if I had kids, I wouldn't mind them watching.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.
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- Nov 07, 2020