All Quotes

I do think people do pick movies that reveal something about them that they aren't always aware of. If you ask them what kind of an actor they think they are, they'll probably tell you something different than what they've actually done.
‐‐ Casey Affleck

I do think people of good will can have different opinions but still be coming not from a place of malice.
‐‐ John Scalzi

I do think people should be proud and supportive of their friends, in publishing and everywhere else.
‐‐ Kristan Higgins

I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations.
‐‐ Sienna Miller

I do think sometimes there's danger in guest appearance mania. I've seen too many examples that sound cool on paper, like 'Oh, get that guy to sing the hook on that guy's song,' and then that's all it is. It's a cool idea that sounds good on paper.
‐‐ Ezra Koenig

I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.
‐‐ Gail Sheehy

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.
‐‐ Steve Case

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.
‐‐ Charles Spurgeon

I do think that a school day that matches the work day makes a lot of difference for working families, but the big driver of this effort is education. Period. We have a lot of students not gaining the skills they need, and it is pretty clear that school does not offer enough time to get that job done.
‐‐ Chris Gabrieli

I do think that all of us think in poems.
‐‐ Naomi Shihab Nye

I do think that, at one time, being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That's changed a lot, thank goodness.
‐‐ Michelle Pfeiffer

I do think that being a sort of celebrity and being well off does give me some responsibility. I think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away.
‐‐ Ruth Rendell

I do think that books are invaluable as a reservoir of what we call the human space. And this is why I think that, even if they're threatened, the work that they do has an incalculable merit.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

I do think that books, good books, free you. They make you feel a citizen of the world and things like class, sex and age don't matter. They're the greatest leveler.
‐‐ Sue Townsend

I do think that character types trend. As a female comedian, the parts that come my way are often terrible women.
‐‐ Jenny Slate

I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.
‐‐ Emma Thompson

I do think that even with entertainment and telling stories, people in the entertainment industry have such a beautiful position in the world to speak about things that they're passionate about in a way that can grab people more than just sitting and telling someone about something, because you can show it visually.
‐‐ Jennifer Love Hewitt

I do think that exercise is important, not only to keep you in shape but also for your state of mind. However, I am not fanatical about it.
‐‐ Donatella Versace

I do think that fashion may end up being the 'killer app' for wearable augmented reality systems. This is in part because it's not simply task-oriented - like finding a restaurant or where your friend is currently lounging about - but experience-oriented. It becomes part of your life.
‐‐ Jamais Cascio

I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos.
‐‐ Kenneth Branagh

I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it.
‐‐ Richard Gere

I do think that humanitarians and journalists alike have focused on all the things that go wrong, and that they sometimes leave the perception in the public that the war on poverty has been lost. That Africa is just a bottomless pit of despair. When, in fact, really the opposite is true on both fronts.
‐‐ Nicholas Kristof

I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
‐‐ Inara George

I do think that I'm a big believer in having an idea or having ideas and just tucking them away in the back of your brain. Even if you aren't consciously thinking of them, I think they simmer. You're working on them, even if you don't know you're working on them, and I think having something in your head for a while is a valuable thing.
‐‐ Rian Johnson

I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me.
‐‐ Marlene Dumas

I do think that in order for a company to be interesting to the investment community, there needs to be a plan; there needs to be a bigger retail footprint. There needs to be this idea - DNA, lifestyle, words I hate.
‐‐ Marc Jacobs

I do think that it's better for a musical to live its life first because if you see it on the screen, would you like to go to the theater after that? Probably not. You've seen it. And that's the mystery of a musical that hasn't been filmed. You're bloody meant to go there and buy your ticket.
‐‐ Bjorn Ulvaeus

I do think that it's extremely important with this character show her assuming power with a great deal of grace, and find out how to do things she won't like - the things she's called upon to do.
‐‐ Mary McDonnell

I do think that Japan will be one of the nations that have equality, and that, too, will serve as an example for other Asian nations.
‐‐ George Takei

I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

I do think that many Americans have a limited view of what constitutes Japanese cartooning based on what gets translated, so it's great to see an increase in diversity.
‐‐ Adrian Tomine

I do think that maybe, even subconsciously, a lot of parents in the West are wondering, have we gone too far in the direction of coddling and protecting - you know, you see kids, sometimes that seem very rude and disrespectful. And the more important thing is they don't seem that happy.
‐‐ Amy Chua

I do think that my Indian classical audiences thought I was sacrificing them through working with George; I became known as the 'fifth Beatle.' In India, they thought I was mad.
‐‐ Ravi Shankar

I do think that narrative is very important - I think that we use narrative to organize the world around us, and so it does matter a lot what kinds of narratives we have in our inventories and which ones are reinforced so often and so strongly that we habitually reach for them without thinking.
‐‐ Ann Leckie

I do think that narrative, long-form nonfiction is the perfect form because it's rooted in something very real, but we're also, you know, completely spiritual, emotional creatures driven by all sorts of desires and needs.
‐‐ Michael Paterniti

I do think that once you remove the limitations of the page, once you turn text transitive, meaning it can be clicked away from, the forward movement of text can be interrupted. But I don't think this is just a function of technology. It's also a function of cultural preference.
‐‐ Joshua Cohen

I do think that our freedoms are at risk.
‐‐ Clarence Thomas

I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.
‐‐ Linda Sue Park

I do think that people get really emotionally involved in the TV shows that they love and I think that is fantastic. Of course they are going to have opinions. The other thing is that people project onto their television shows. They see a character and layer on many traits that are actually their own or their idea of what that character is.
‐‐ Lisa Edelstein

I do think that people ought to have some control over their money, rather than the government, just mandating to them how they're going to invest their money.
‐‐ Saxby Chambliss

I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
‐‐ Laura Leighton

I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.
‐‐ Bill Condon

I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?
‐‐ Eartha Kitt

I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.
‐‐ Robert Sheckley

I do think that Social Security reform needs to be bipartisan, and we are going to have to reach that in this debate at some time before we can find really meaningful reform.
‐‐ Judy Biggert

I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it.
‐‐ Fred Durst

I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you'd have to knuckle down. A lot of people in our generation did that. They didn't drop out and run away.
‐‐ Julian Bond

I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening.
‐‐ Anne Carson

I do think that television, in its early years, played a significant role in that standard-setting, enforcing a certain decency among people. They took their role seriously, and the people behind the camera took their role seriously, too.
‐‐ John Seabrook