Of My Mind Quotes - Page 4

• My wife has told me since that I was hungover every mornng until about two in the afternoon, and from five until midnight I was drunk out of my mind. So she says there was this period of about three hours when she could talk to me like a rational human being.

  Stephen King

  Two, Drunk, Wife

  "Part two of the full Stephen King interview". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2000.

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• I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for all that believe myself in all I write. I often hazard sallies of my mind which I mistrust.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Trust, Kings, Believe

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”

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• Part of my mind is working on how to end the thing while I'm going on. You need at least two brains to write.

  Lydia Davis

  Writing, Two, Brain

  The New Yorker Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. December 16, 2009.

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• Whenever I write lyrics, in the back of my mind I always see a guy driving to work, driving to a really bad job, one of those horrible institutions, or one of those low squat buildings in Los Angeles. I write with that person in my mind.

  Henry Rollins

  Jobs, Writing, Guy

  Source: oustedproductions.net

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• When I'm not actually doing my work, I'm planning it or thinking about it or reading things that on some level are transformed into performance fantasies. I have no active interests. I never go anywhere or do anything that transports me outside the boundaries of my mind.

  George Carlin

  Reading, Thinking, Mind

  Interview with Sam Merrill, reprints.longform.org. January 1982.

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• I started to watch Damages and all of these amazing, female-driven shows, and it was something that was always in the back of my mind. Then, once I had my daughter, I realized that I was done living the romantic lifestyle, and nothing offers that more than television.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Daughter, Mind, Female

  "Sarah Michelle Gellar Interview RINGER; Compares Her Return to TV to BUFFY Experience". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 12, 2011.

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• The idea of directing was something that I always had in the back of my mind, and writing as well. I began to write screenplays when I was in my 20's.

  Charles Martin Smith

  Writing, Ideas, Mind

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a Jew. Thirty-three is when Christ died. So though I'm a Jew, in the back of my mind I still think that I gotta get it done before I'm thirty-four because well, I don't know why. He got it done before He was thirty-four.

  Jack Black

  Thinking, Mind, Four

  Interview with Daniel Handler, www.believermag.com.

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• Every night when I go out on stage, there's always one nagging fear in the back of my mind. I'm always afraid that somewhere out there, there is one person in the audience that I'm not going to offend!

  Don Rickles

  Night, Mind, Nagging

  "'A god died today': remembering the insult comedy of Don Rickles" by Rob LeDonne, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2017.

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• There are times when I just can't bring myself to sit down and write and I'm never sure whether it's pure laziness or lack of courage - there's always the thought in the back of my mind that my writing won't be good enough.

  Kate Cary

  Writing, Mind, Laziness

  Source: www.teenink.com

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• I don't know when the idea of suicide first occurred to me. In some ways, it had been in the back of my mind for years. Yet, oddly, I would never have thought of it as an option. It was the perceived lack of options-the final, unacceptable solution to a grave and insoluble dilemma. I had always thought of it in the same way: If all else fails, if I have nowhere else to turn, I can do this.

  Tracy Thompson

  Suicide, Suicidal, Years

  Tracy Thompson (2014). “The Beast: A Journey Through Depression”, p.130, Diversion Books

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• I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age,
  Photographically lined
  On the tablet of my mind

  W. S. Gilbert

  Memories, Mind, Age

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “The Story Of Prince Agib”

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• For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements ofman had outrun his intellectual and spiritual power. ...Throughout the Second World War this terrible problem hung in the back of my mind. As I write these words the problem and the danger are as threatening as ever. We hope our nation will survive, but in its effort to survive will it transform itself intellectually and spiritually into the image of the thing against which we fought?

  Virginia Gildersleeve

  Education, Spiritual, War

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• The arc of my mind has an equal swing in all directions. I should say the same of your mind if I thought you would believe it. But we are so saturated with the notion that Time is a dimension accessible from one direction only, that you will at first probably be shocked by my saying that I can see truly as far in front of me as I can see exactly behind me.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Time, Believe, One Direction

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• I have seen myself lose intolerance, narrowness, bigotry, complacence, pride and a whole bushel-basket of other intellectual vices through my contact with Nature and with men. And when you take weeds out of a garden it gives you room to grow flowers. So, every time I lost a little self-satisfaction, or arrogance, I could plant some broadness or love of my own in its place, and after a while the garden of my mind began to bloom and be fragrant and I found myself better equipped for my work and more useful to others as a consequence.

  Luther Burbank

  Weed, Flower, Pride

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• I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.

  Garry Trudeau

  War, Kids, Thinking

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• I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that thing in the back of my mind where I think I don't really know who I am. And it may make it a little easier to shift around in my narrative voice.

  Gillian Welch

  Writing, Thinking, Voice

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 18, 2011.

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• I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground.

  Dominic West

  Mother, Dad, Thinking

  "Down to The Wire with Dominic West". Intervie with Sara Bliss, www.esquire.com. December 31, 2006.

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• The thought grew strong in me that since I had gone to the trouble of being born, I might as well be useful in helping people live long and healthy lives. And this thought has always resided in the back of my mind.

  Koichi Tanaka

  Strong, People, Long

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• I'm mentally getting myself ready to talk about it all year long because I know it's going to come. My main focus is not to really concentrate on that... So many things have to line up, to be healthy and consistent for so many games, to get to that point. I know as we get closer we're going to talk about it more. But believe me, when it's done, if it gets done, it will be a huge achievement and I'm definitely going to soak it in. But at this time, it's not at the top of my mind.

  Anthony Calvillo

  Sports, Believe, Years

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• When I first turned elite in gymnastics, when I was 14, that's when I really became more inspired than ever. I just always kept that in the back of my mind, and always thought about making the 2012 team.

  Aly Raisman

  Team, Gymnastics, Mind

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• And luckily, for whatever reason, I've found people who are interested in living with and owning and existing around the DNA of my mind, which is my visual work. I've found collectors who are willing to put money down to live with my work. So I can't criticize the whole mechanism. But I can criticize it as an artist, in spite of the fact that I benefit from it. And there are problems with it.

  Wangechi Mutu

  Artist, Dna, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The theater of my mind has a seating capacity of just one, and its sold out for all performances.

  Henry Winkler

  Mind, Theater, Capacity

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• Ty and I are extremely competitive. We don't go soft on each other. We push each other, which ultimately helps us both. We race against each other in everything we do, whether it's a foot race to the car when we go out to a restaurant at night or on the racetrack. It's in the back of my mind that he's on the track with me, but we're both competitive and want to win.

  Austin Dillon

  Winning, Night, Feet

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Well, you know, it's been in the back of my mind. I just cannot get it out of it. I'm miserable chasing money. I'm 30 years old going through a mid-life crisis!" I just couldn't shut (it) off.

  Drew Waters

  Years, Mind, Miserable

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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