- Notes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think Quotes
Quotes that share what people really think.
Many quotes here open with a direct 'I think,' offering personal beliefs - some lighthearted, like using comedy as a defense, others sobering, including grim predictions about where humanity is headed. A few weigh in on cryptography and the future of communication, a subject also touched on in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I talk about my artist parents, people imagine a bohemian environment and think, 'Aha, so that's where he gets it from!' But we were as white, straight, and middle-class as the next family on our white, straight, middle-class housing estate.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy!
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody who sits down to write, and they think 'thriller,' maybe shouldn't be thinking that way. Maybe we should be thinking 'novel,' maybe 'thriller' way in the background, but that these are real people to whom things are happening. It just happens to be a hell of an exciting story.
- Stand
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the corruption of power is very interesting, and I think the idea that power is something that... You know, when people want power, they're a certain individual. When people acquire power by accident, they're different again.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm quite a lazy person, actually. If I'm not careful, I could just stay in bed all day.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't think of anything worse than going to a fancy dress party. So, if somebody invited me to one, I'd go as the Invisible Man and not turn up.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a massive fan of Brit Art in general and Damien Hirst in particular. I think he's an absolute genius and should be celebrated in every way.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was getting to the point where I said to my wife, 'I don't think I'll ever be in New York in a play again.'
- Mountain
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- Nov 07, 2020