- Islam
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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.
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- Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the federal flood insurance program is actuarially unsound and renders private insurance not viable, thereby needing an overhaul going forward.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I knew I would be a writer. I wanted to become a writer, and I tried to write.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think there ever will be a biopic on me! I would much like some of my books to be made into films.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up, I don't think I knew any other child who had been out of Sri Lanka.
- Boredom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Years later, when I was working as a trolley wally in a supermarket, I tackled the boredom by talking to the customers in as many different accents as I could manage. I started with one that I didn't think would alert any suspicion - generic Asian - then moved on to Irish, Welsh, Australian and American.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a magical, unexplainable phenomenon that still occurs to this day where, however funny you think the material you've written is, as soon as you turn up to a gig to try it out, it becomes almost incoherent.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just write what I think is funny, or interesting, and hopefully everything else will take care of itself. There's no strategy to anything.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always scribbled, and I still do it. I've written numerous scripts for films for which I think I'd be perfect as the complex, intelligent and, yes, modern heroine. Embarrassingly bad, all of them. I've had to come to terms with the fact that I'm not a writer.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people who you see on screen and think, 'Wow, that's a slim person,' and in the flesh they look nearly dead.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want people to think I'm sexy, but to know also that I've got an ordinary body and not feel intimidated.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to live free of the fear and sadness and real desperation that I think the effect of childbirth has on women, especially because we are expected to be so concerned by 'recovery' from childbirth.
- Emotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think with the best actors, emotion is something that has no kind of check in them.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020