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thinking artist average
I think people who are artists, actors, singers, great songwriters, they tend to have a hyper state of emotion where they feel things very, very deeply, probably more deeply than the average person walking down the street where it may affect them, but not to the same extent. Willie Aames
thinking enemy needs
I don't think you need to go looking for the enemy. He's going to look for you.
teaching writing care
I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow. William Zinsser
teacher writing thinking
Writers who think THEY are being criticized when only that writing is being criticized are beyond a teacher's reach. Writing can only be learned when a writer coldly separates himself from what he has written and looks at it with the objectivity of a plumber examining a newly piped bathroom to see if he got all the joints tight.
trying different mass
Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person.
thinking rehearsal action
Thought is action in rehearsal.
thinking fine-things ends
I think a sentence is a fine thing to put a preposition at the end of.
teacher art ego
The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, Your ego will get you killed. William Sanderson
talking professors novel
I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels. William Safire
thinking needs knows
I think we have a need to know what we do not need to know.
thinking irritation giving
Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL thinking is wishful, reactions of intense irritation give evidence that we are not dealing with logic but with faith. William S. Burroughs
thinking mind tunes
I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous they don't see him and think it is their own mind humming the tune.
thinking ideas people
The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It's as psychological as malaria. It's a matter of exposure. People, generally speaking, will take any intoxicant or any drug that gives them a pleasant effect if it is available to them.
thinking drug lsd
The consciousness-expanding drugs - the hallucinogens, such as cannabis, mescaline, LSD, Psylocybin - I think are useful to a writer up to a certain point. That is, they open psychic areas that would not otherwise be available to the writer. But I feel that once these areas have been opened and the writer has reached them, he is able to get back there in the future without the drug.
thinking wisdom-experience finals
Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.
taken reserves
Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.
thinking people stupidity
Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin is two people because it is a statement of the impasse of dualistic universe which he has created, they have created. I think that any dualistic universe ends in Nova. Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin is a kind of God. A God of stupidity, cowardice, ugliness.
thinking people missing
When you get to be my age there are more and more people you have known that you miss. Brion [Gysin], Antony Balch, Ian Summerville are ones I think of right away I was quite close to.
thinking
I was thinking about New Mexico, and I rounded the corner in New York, and there was a New Mexico license plate: "New Mexico, land of enchantment."
thinking stuck
[Arab peoples] are stuck back thousands of years and they think they're going to get out with a TV set.
thinking doctors arbitrary
A doctor is not criticized for describing the manifestations and symptoms of an illness, even though the symptoms may be disgusting. I feel that a writer has the right to the same freedom In fact, I think that the time has come for the line between literature and science, a purely arbitrary line, to be erased.
thinking brain consciousness
I think if a writer is not endeavoring to expand and alter consciousness in himself and in his readers, he is not doing much of anything. It is precisely words, word lines, lines of words and images, and associations connected with these word and image lines in the brain, that keep you in present time, right where you are sitting now.
thinking acting causes
Don't even think of acting as a profession unless not doing it would cause you to sicken and waste away. William Lucking
tragedy links ruins
It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the bond between events on the battlefield and his own ruin was forged, and, as is essential in genuine tragedy, the gods used the victim himself to forge the links. William Manchester
thinking government people
I believed the people had a true instinct in most matters of government when left alone. That they were not swayed, as specially favoured individuals were, by personal interest, but rather by a sense of what best served the common good. That they recognized the truth when it was put before them, and that a leader can guide so long as he kept to the right lines. I did not think it was a mark of leadership to try to make the people do what one wanted them to do. William Lyon Mackenzie King
thinking years stories
I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as an actor, and I'm a writer as well, I think I have a pretty good sense about whether the bones of a story are there and whether the structure is intact. William Mapother
thinking marketing band
If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band.
thinking possibility priests
I don't think that necessarily I was encouraged by the nuns and the priest to consider alternate possibilities to the universe.
thought-provoking stories sci-fi
I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.
thinking people mind
At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat. William Lyon Phelps
teacher men self
Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and cloisters--nor amid lake scenery, and on the sunny side of the mountains. Men who seldom mix with their fellow-creatures are almost sure to be one-sided--the victims of fixed ideas, that sometimes lead to insanity. William Matthews
thinking diversity people
I just think it is so delightful to see people, let their elbows free. I think the exuberance of it all is really exciting to me. It's a signal of the abundance of diversity and creative expression. William McDonough
tree use world
The eco-effective future of industry is a world of abundance that celebrates the use and consumption of products and materials that are, in effect, nutritious - as safe, effective, and delightful as a cherry tree.