I saw the Village as a place you could escape to, to express yourself. When I first went there, I wrote and performed poetry. Then I drew portraits for a couple of years. It took a while before I thought about picking up a guitar. – Richie Havens
Only one of us would usually sing lead. Which most of the time was, Mickey or Dave. They thought it was perfectly a natural routine, because Mickey and Dave saw themselves as TV actors. – Peter Tork
I think it’s the way I talk. I think they thought I was too country. And I’m not ashamed of that by any means. – Reba McEntire
I was watching ‘The September Issue’ in the back of a theater in New York, and I thought, ‘I know I really can do this with actors.’ – R. J. Cutler
When you start to live your dream, it’s not quite what you thought it was because there is a lot of overwhelming stuff that comes on top of it, and you have to figure it all out. – Orlando Bloom
If you realize you aren’t so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you’re wiser today. – Olin Miller
I know Pandit Ravi Shankar was very upset with me, as I did not use his compositions in ‘Gandhi.’ I thought that the London Philharmonic Orchestra would prove more effective than his music. It was one of my biggest miscalculations. – Richard Attenborough
I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or crime novel of any kind, I had to set it here. – Peter Temple
I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there. – Ralph Fiennes
In a very simple sense I want everything that’s in a work to be there for the reason that it’s needed. It’s not an ornamentation. It’s not there because I thought it looked nice but because it has to be there. – Paul Cullen
Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute – an illusion of course, but that’s what Assad thought. – Robert Fisk
I think the job of movie reviewing can be really tough. If a film has layers that need to be thought about, it’s easy to get missed the first time around. – Roland Joffe
When ‘Nevermind’ came out, my roommate had the CD. At first, I actually thought, ‘This is too polished and commercial.’ It was a little off-putting. But then I was like, ‘This is the best music ever.’ It felt so close to what I wanted to do. – Rivers Cuomo
I actually got the part. And I thought, Well, I’ll do it for a while. I’ll just quit if it’s stupid. – Rob Corddry
One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we’ve been wishing to lead ourselves. – Richard Bach
No, I’ve never thought that I was gay. And that’s not something you think. It’s something you know. – Robert Plant
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions. – Saint Teresa of Avila
In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances. – Robert W. Welch, Jr.
I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French. – Olivia De Havilland
I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don’t know how Jackson ended up with the rights. – Ralph Bakshi
I suspect many people have the problem that they type much more slowly than they think. Consequently, they keep resynchronizing their thought processes with what they have typed so far, and they match a later part of the thought with an earlier part that they have typed. – Ray Tomlinson
I spent a lot of my twenties wanting a maid, really. I thought I wanted a relationship, but I just wanted somebody to fix and nurse me, and I’d take her hostage for six months. When you’re 23, 24, you want to be in a relationship because they look brilliant – you’ve heard all the songs about it and seen all the movies and it looks great. – Robbie Williams
I started out writings songs for what I thought was going to be a maximum of five people down our local pub. – Romy Madley Croft
As a kid, I never thought I’d be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy – bordering on social disorder shy – and I was really academic. – Rebel Wilson
I know deaf people. I have discussed the issues with them I’ve also thought about them a lot so I have some insights that go a little further than people who haven’t had contact with the deaf community. – Richard Masur
Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic. – Salman Rushdie
We’re probably doing better business than we thought we would do especially considering the disappointing way the record company has handled the album. – Rick Allen
Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives. – Robert Collier
No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms. – P. F. Strawson
