I thought that if I could play rugby on TV, I'd be able to get my mum a house. That was the driving factor.
As autobiographical as say the stuff on 'Rumours' was, I don't think we thought of it as such when we were writing it.
I'm sure I've devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
I think, make it as beautiful as you can, and then rip it away. That's my sadistic thought as a storyteller.
The thought that so many people get their news from social media really is scary.
I haven't really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that it would be in space.
Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.
I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought.
When I started out as a novelist, I thought I was going to be a private-eye writer. That was my intent, and that's what I studied, I mean, scholarly.
By the way he carried himself, you really thought that Bon Scott was immortal.
The documentaries I made were never normal documentaries. They were about subjects I was obsessed with, and I suppose I thought I could sculpt them. What I think I do with my fiction is the same.
I've taken up sculpting. I thought it might help the nerves in my hands.
We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.
Self-help is something that I've always been into. I thought I was going to be a psychiatrist.
For years, the feminists thought of me as an army sergeant. I was too macho for them.
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
We may forget, or be unaware of, how prevalent it is to be sexually traumatized by events that are generally not thought of as traumatizing.
Even on one leg, I thought I could knock Tony Bellew out. I was gutted when Shane McGuigan threw the towel in.