Erik Larson Quotes
I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself - kind of like adding a soundtrack to help shape mood.
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You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.
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I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
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I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.
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San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
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There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.
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If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
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I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.
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I feel like now fashion is just part of how I think about everything. When I send out a mood board to our contributors every month about our monthly theme, there are photos from our fashion shows, but there are also film stills and album art.
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There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
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A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that.
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It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.
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My fashion statement depends on my mood. I am more of a tomboy when dressing up, and I have never worn pink in my entire life.
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I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.
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I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.
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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
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When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.
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If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
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Kevin Smith is so great in 'Kingdom Come,' isn't he? He's kind of this very earthy poet. He just has this immediate gregariousness, like, you kind of just want to be his pal.
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My dad passed on asthma to me. It's kind of ironic because he outgrew it at 13.
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The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.
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When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.
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A man who is willing to accept restriction and barriers and is not afraid of them is free. A man who does nothing but fight restrictions and barriers will usually be trapped.
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I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself - kind of like adding a soundtrack to help shape mood.
