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• I am aware that I've generally been more attracted to introspective roles, but it's sort of bizarre, because it's the opposite of who I am in many ways. I think I'm quite an extroverted, loud person. So it interests me that that's sort of the place that I go all quiet, is when I'm onscreen. It's a bit strange.

  Sarah Polley

  Thinking, Strange, Quiet

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• The trouble with getting introspective when you're pregnant is that you never know who you might run into.

  Carrie Fisher

  Running, Pregnancy, Might

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• I always have been introspective, since I was a little kid, since I could remember, I was sitting in a closet trying to write out the meaning of the universe. That's been my whole life.

  Jim Carrey

  Writing, Kids, Trying

  "Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen and Joel Schumacher Count to The Number 23". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. February 18, 2007.

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• The Johnny Depp generation has this kind of brooding, weighty, introspective quality, very James Deanish. Which is nice, great for a lot of characters.

  Todd Haynes

  Nice, Character, Quality

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There is an almost quaint correlation between what is in front of our eyes and the thoughts we are able to have in our heads: large thoughts at times requiring large views, new thoughts new places. Introspective reflections which are liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape. The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do.

  Alain de Botton

  Moving, Eye, Reflection

  Alain de Botton (2003). “The Art of Travel”, p.32, Penguin UK

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• I've always been pretty serious and introspective.

  Don Most

  Serious

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• I want to say that what is cool about writing self-aware first person narrative is that the awareness is not necessarily the same awareness of the reader. I have a story coming out in the Paris Review and it's about a hipster. He think's he's self-aware, he's very introspective and analytical, but when you're reading it you can totally see through his self-analysis because you have a higher awareness than he does. I like playing with that too.

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  Hipster, Reading, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For me, even in the most subtle and introspective story, it's all about tension: this is the thread that ties a reader to story, something in the rhythm and in the argument that hypnotizes and pushes us to read with great attention. As a reader, I love the storytellers who play with this, and as a writer it is something I always look for.

  Samanta Schweblin

  Attention, Argument, Rhythm

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• You could conceive spirituality as the study of the immeasurable, of the qualitative. But that's very different from the way we typically use the word. A spiritual person, in the popular conception, is somebody who's kind of aloof from the world, introspective, meditating, communing with non-material beings. That's the spiritual realm, and we elevate it above the material realm. What's more worthy, what's more admirable? Who's the one who has done this hard work on the self, and has done a lot of "practice"? That's the spiritual person.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Spiritual, Hard Work, Different

  Source: www.mindfulnessbell.org

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• My songs are very much a kind of psychoanalysis. I am very introspective in my songs, and I am working through, always.

  Vic Chesnutt

  Song, Kind, Psychoanalysis

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As a first-order approximation, I would say that phenomenality is "availability for introspective attention": Consciousness is a property of all those mental contents to which you can in principle direct your attention.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Order, Availability, Attention

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I've always had this juxtaposition of characters, because I'm an artist. I'm a very quiet person at home and introspective and the whole deal, and then I can be really big later. I had no problem.

  Terry Crews

  Home, Character, Artist

  Source: uproxx.com

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• I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking

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• I just put out a hardcore double album. Next I'm gonna put out an introspective album.

  Tupac Shakur

  Albums, Next, Hardcore

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• When you look at any experimental work not directly related to economics, but trying to test rational behavior in other ways, experiments have conspicuously failed to show rational behavior. Macro evidence certainly suggests deviations from rationality, but I don't want to say the rationality hypothesis is completely wrong. If you have any introspective idea or experimental idea about people's behavior, it seems to be incompatible with the really full scale rational expectations.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Ideas, Expectations, People

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• I'm an introspective human being and someone who likes to be alone in a room. The idea of going out and talking to people...there's something appealing about it, but also there's something that feels alien to me, as a cynical Irish man.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Men, Talking, Ideas

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Then when we did the untitled record, we just didn't feel like putting joke stuff on it, so we didn't. It wasn't really a deliberation or a real introspective thing like, "Are we going to joke on this one, are we not going to joke on this one?" We just didn't feel like it on the untitled one, so we didn't.

  Mark Hoppus

  Real, Jokes

  Source: www.spin.com

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• Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Thinking, Bears

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• I fell like a lot of times, when I write a song, it is coming from an introspective perspective that my faith always kind of factors. Faith is either part of what factors in to my decision making, or it is part of what factors into my fears and my doubts. It is either the positive or the negative part of it that is afflicting me during times of conflict, which is normally when you write songs about yourself when you find some sort of conflict or you are seeking some sort of resolution.

  Matt Thiessen

  Song, Writing, Perspective

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.

  Drew Goddard

  Way, Incredibles, Force

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• The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.

  William S. Burroughs

  Men, Thinking, Brain

  William S. Burroughs (1984). “Naked lunch”, Grove Pr

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• You just have to let yourself go and not be worried about what other people are going to say or the things that might come out...Just jump right in full force and be as silly and stupid and adolescent and introspective as you want to be.

  Amy Ray

  Stupid, Silly, People

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• Apparently I'm introspective... levelheaded... but at the same time, absolutely insane.

  Ellie Goulding

  Insane

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant extroverts, and helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to.

  Harry Reasoner

  Airplane, Ironic, Different

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• My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has never quite left them. They are often isolated, introspective people, often confrontational or anarchic in some way, often damaged or secretly unhappy or incomplete.

  Joanne Harris

  Hero, Past, People

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