- Quality
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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
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always think the villains in all of the Disney movies are almost operatic in scale.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think I should be a multi-millionaire if I had gotten the right contract. I'm not getting anything for all that commercial stuff they do. But I would have had to pay for that.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be involved with literature. I certainly wasn't going to be able to write for a living, and I didn't have enough confidence in my talent to think that I should be just doing that. Publishing seemed like fun to me - to be involved with writers. And it did turn out to be.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that the continuity of what I do as an editor with what I did when I started out 40 years ago is very direct. The delivery system is changing and will continue to, but the actual interaction between publisher and author is exactly the same.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is not mainstream, but then neither is serious fiction, really. But I don't think there's a lot to worry about in this particular 'problem'. Why does art have to be mainstream to be significant?
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think most cricket fans would accept that Dravid and Tendulkar are very different individuals but they are both great players.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the qualities I look for in a girl I'd like to be my girlfriend would be the way Lindsay's character is before she becomes a plastic. Very real.
- Maybe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that my biggest role models are people that have maybe struggled for a while and then finally gotten to their destination.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's all about how much you love, understand and can relate to the material you are given.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My friends would probably describe me as silly. And honest. And that I think about things a bit too much.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020