Kind Quotes
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What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless singing.
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Life is now... this day, this hour...and is probably the only experience of the kind one is to have.
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You have to listen a lot, and you have to be open and ready to adjust to anything. It kind of provides a framework that you use all the time. You never really shut off that part of your brain when you're doing something. It's invaluable to have.
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After forty years of close acquaintance with it, I've found that work is kind to its friends and harsh to its enemies. It pays the fellow who dislikes it his exact wages, and they're generally pretty small; but it gives the man who shines up to it all the money he wants and throws in a heap of fun and satisfaction for good measure.
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Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.
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I don't think there is a woman in her 40s who doesn't, kind of, examine herself in the mirror.
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I work barefooted on balance plates. I do explosive squats on balance surfaces that your body has to use muscles it's not used to. It's all kinds of exercises that your body isn't really used to, and it tricks your body into getting stronger every time.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy.
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At some point we all have to move on. Im here to create some kind of legacy in Brooklyn.
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There are all kinds of values within the films but I don't make message films.
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There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and educate yourself with all kinds of stories.
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She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.
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Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.
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If I was doing a talk show, I would do the kind of show that comes on just once a month, with amazing guests.
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Anyone who achieves any kind of success, however you want to define it, sometimes can't let go of it.
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Europeans invented art for the last 300 years, and the Americans kind of killed it with a big, huge rock.
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I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at your most capable and least popular.
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I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.
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Rather than making that a good project, I like to make the kinds of films that children can understand in five minutes what the film is about.
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Usually, when you're talking about work with other writers it's because something seriously bad is going on with your work and you've absolutely thrown out a lifeline and you're hoping that someone will help you with something. Either there's some bad feeling you have about the work, or sometimes it's not specific - just kind of solidarity.
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I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.
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A story a friend told me about being in New York and meeting this Latin-lover kind of guy. They went up to her hotel room, and the guy kind of pounced on her and told her to spread her legs, shouting, "Surrender the pink! Surrender the pink!" That's where it's from.
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There's a value to getting the meal on the table every night, and there's a value to being an old-school kind of parent.
