Kind Quotes

• Honestly, as an actor, all I need to know, the way I kind of look at a scene, is like a puzzle. There are certain puzzle pieces that are bigger than others, and all I need to know is if this is going to fit here to make this part of the puzzle work.

  

  Sarah Shahi
  • Actors
  • Scene
  • Fit

• If you write a piece, it's a different thing to show it to an editor than it is to show it to your best friend. You think, "Maybe she'll see through this or she'll see through that." That happened to me with my best friend back in Vancouver. I showed him "Just a Dream" and he took off the headphones halfway through and said, "Man, this is kind of garbage." He told me I needed to get singing lessons.

  

  Tobias Jesso Jr.
  • Men
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Yeah, I don't think you can live anywhere else - it's such a great city [New York]. L.A. is kind of a necessary evil, but man, I love going back to New York.

  

  William Emerson Arnett
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Evil

• I write, and when see a movie in which it's supernatural, some other worlds, or some other aspect to our world that we're not aware of, and [they] don't explain what the rules are, that kind of stuff drives me crazy.

  

  William Mapother
  • World
  • Writing
  • Crazy

• That's the kind he usually knocks in in his sleep - with his eyes closed.

  

  Archie Macpherson
  • Kind
  • Sleep
  • Knocks

• Acting's always felt like a kind of creature that lays dormant and collects observations when I'm not working. And then when I'm actually doing it, it just rises up. But everything I do is more about curiosity and investigation than it is about performance.

  

  Benn Northover
  • Acting
  • Curiosity
  • Creatures

• What kind of people we become depends crucially on the stories we are nurtured on.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • People
  • Stories
  • Depends

• I don't read reviews any more, but I'm told by my publisher who gives me an account of what people have been writing and it's been a very split kind of response.

  

  Paul Auster
  • People
  • Writing
  • Giving

• We certainly would not want to have the same kind of democracy as they have in Iraq, I can tell you quite honestly.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Democracy
  • Iraq
  • Honestly

• Acting, it's the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Character
  • Needs
  • Acting

• I am tired again tonight - a good kind of tired. Some aches are well earned. I wish I could see the sky tonight

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Wish
  • Tired
  • Sky

• ... finding that in [the Moon] there is a provision of light and heat; also in appearance, a soil proper for habitation fully as good as ours, if not perhaps better who can say that it is not extremely probable, nay beyond doubt, that there must be inhabitants on the Moon of some kind or other?

  

  William Herschel
  • Science
  • Doubt
  • Moon

• No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of the cerebrum subserve different kinds of mental action. Localization of function is the law of all organization whatever: separateness of duty is universally accompanied with separateness of structure: and it would be marvellous were an exception to exist in the cerebral hemispheres.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Different
  • Long
  • Science

• The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.

  

  Thomas Bulfinch
  • Romance
  • Rude
  • Verses

• We talked [with Scott Derrickson] about making it kind of muscular and practical. Yeah it's a fantasy but what's the difference between fantasy and reality really?

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Reality
  • Differences
  • Fantasy

• What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind, good-natured old creature we find her!

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Giving
  • Balance
  • Dignity

• It doesn't matter what you're chasing, when you get there you're gonna be like, "Oh, is this all? It kind of sucks."

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Kind
  • Matter
  • Chasing

• The beginning of a painting is a very energized, exciting time, and it generates most of the energy I have. If I've gotten 75 per cent of it down, then it takes an effort to really get up that kind of energy to finish it in the same way it's begun.

  

  Burton Silverman
  • Energy
  • Effort
  • Painting

• Frank [Zappa]'s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won't find elsewhere in rock and roll.

  

  Gail Zappa
  • Audience
  • Information
  • Elsewhere

• Japanese is a baby talk - very, very hard to read, very, very, easy to talk. ... A very faint kind of language.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Language
  • Baby
  • Japanese

• When I'm photographing, I don't have that kind of nonsense running around in my head. I'm photographing. It's irrelevant in the end, so it doesn't mean a thing. It's not going to make me do better work or worse work as I can see it now.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Work
  • Running
  • Mean

• I've had plenty of friends tell me that their first time doing stand-up, they do well, and then they tank for a while after that. Kind of like the first time you do a drug, you're like, "Huh! This is pretty darn good," and then you spend all your money trying to get the same high.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Trying
  • Firsts
  • Drug

• Everything, I just wanted to be like my father. And, as I grew within the music, I kind of became myself which was even more like my father, only without me trying though.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Father

• I'm kind of A.D.D., and so my mind wanders a lot.

  

  Hunter Parrish
  • Mind
  • Kind
  • Wander

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