My Kind Quotes

For me, a director is such an important part of thE process. I really have to trust him. Because then you can kind of let your inhibitions down. You can go anywhere when you trust someone.

I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing.

Based on history the expectations are simply the highest, it kind of could become a burden for you or it could be something that you are really proud of, you know so I take the second one.

I don't care about fashion at all. And I know it's kind of a dodgy thing to be a fashion photographer, a kind of pathetic occupation, but I like it, even though I question it.

I have a house in Stratford and I got a house in Atlanta but I don't really live anywhere--I live on the road. I'm kind of like living in a suitcase, travelling so much.

I think ultimately that sense of hope is something that even as a little kid I was able to kind of grab onto.

It's like, once you've seen Tom Hanks win the Golden Globes, the Oscars, you've seen his wife, what kind of car he drives, when you watch his movies, you can't fully get really lost in them.

I always watched movies and rooted for the bad guys, you know? I've always been that kind of guy. I still hold some respect for criminals that are good at their jobs.

There's this way that photography is always about going out searching. I'm not the kind of a photographer who can photograph my home.

The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.

Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.

I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.

It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

Everything that I do I hear and then I go with my hands, and since I use my hands for both piano and guitar that is kind of hands-on.

The same way I want them to take me seriously. I want them to look at my music as kind of like an open book to who I am inside.

I'm kind of obsessed with food - I really am.

The only kind of water that should fly through the air is rain.

Aw, come on. I barely speak English, unless we're talking about the Lowcountry kind.

The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start at Chapter 3.

Id love a werebear. But I guess you need that seductive element of danger. And though bears can be dangerous, when you say werebear it just sounds kind of cuddly. Probably has a rainbow on his belly.

Hi, Miss Alice What kind of dreams do you see with your eyes of glass? Do they fascinate you?

I'm a native New Yorker, so I'm edgier; I kind of tell it like it is.

I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.

When I started, these [yoga] were very functional practices, as I said, productive to lose weight, or whatever, and now it has become a very spiritual kind of practice.

I don't know if I was the baddest. People kind of saw me in that light.

We want to show how hip-hop, which kind of fuels today's basketball stars, is directly related to jazz.

Scripts are kind of a bare bones type of reading material.

When I read a film script, I kind of see it in my head and I see the moments that shape what I understand the character to be. There's very little time for rehearsal.

People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.

The kind of person that thanks another person never survives. Have you learned nothing?

She's my baby girl, Quinn. I want love for her. Real love. The kind that makes a man crazy inside. -Gibraltar to Quinn

Finally, he knew the kind of loving that made two one and understood Jane was his world. His ocean, his country, his sun, his rain, his very heart.

He wasn't just masculine and sexual, he was carnal in a set-your-teeth-on-edge kind of way; he was almost frightning.

Woman, you are a thousand kinds of fool.

My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.

In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination, a kind of everyday clairvoyance, a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the President, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not the kind of fiction that I like to read.

I'm just in the business of creating; creating new work inspires you to create new work. It's kind of funny.

I think a lot of guys who are on the internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.

We built everything - toilets included. I think those islands in the middle of nowhere are quite poetic. It's kind of an Oriental Atlantis.

If you are disappearing from yourself, but you're still writing, then there is a kind of activity of thinking going on, which in my world is similar to what's going on in music.

I like my 1980s music. That's why I would bring that back, in a new kind of way, for the people of today. Those are my inspirations.

I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.

The final true artform in what we're talking about is the goal itself. And for us to try and stop that from happening, we're kind of the anti-art.

I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.

I'm glad I've never been so successful that I couldn't stop doing one thing. I've kind of been able to just kick it along and switch around.

I love indoor cycling - it has made a really big difference. I feel a lot skinnier. It's kind of the ultimate cardio.

Mercy Watson is pure fun for me as a writer, because I think of her as kind of sorbet - a palate cleanser - between larger works. It's always a relief to come back to her.

I think of Mercy Watson like a superball; there's a bouncy kind of optimism to her stories. She allows me to play, and she makes me laugh. Hopefully readers feel the same way.