Kind Quotes
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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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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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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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I've always been really drawn to that kind of sexual earthiness in European women, and Sophia Loren covered all the bases, including the whole mummy fantasy.
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There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.
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There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.
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You know, I'm a Christian and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that he can intercede in all kinds of situations and we need to have a little faith in many things
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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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The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.
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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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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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At some point we all have to move on. Im here to create some kind of legacy in Brooklyn.
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I started off doing live TV, so I kind of learnt that if I get myself into trouble, I get myself out of it.
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There are all kinds of values within the films but I don't make message films.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked.
