My Kind Quotes

There's something kind of beautiful about that pure love of things. Like, "I'll show that I love the thing I love by hating everything else."

I really had to imagine the kind of person that I would have been if I had never left my hometown... I don't think I would have been a very pleasant person.

I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother

The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

It's beyond the grasp of anyone's memory to recall conversations in kind of [memoir] detail. So it's fake. It's all made up.

I never feel I'm standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear.

I would say that Edgar Allan Poe, [Georges] Perec, Thomas Pynchon, and [Jorge Luis] Borges are all boy-writers. These are writers who take... a kind of demonic joy in writing.

The biggest book for me, when I was fifteen, was Crime and Punishment, which I read in a kind of fever. When I put it down, I thought, if this is what novels are then I want to be a novelist.

I think most writers can't really think about their work without a kind of revulsion. And I think that's probably why we keep going back and trying again, trying to do better each time.

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.

We don't act the same in every situation. Things bleed into all kinds of other things, from behavior to identity.

[Swiss Armi Man] was a super joyful film to go make. I mean, there was stuff that was, like, totally bananas. But it was kind of par for the course every day with that stuff.

I’ve never been comfortable around groups of guys when it gets into the putting-down. My past being a kind of geek - it kind of turns into an attack on the weakest of the group.

I mean Ally McBeal was sort of the closest thing I can think of to kind of being a comedy-drama but that had its own kind of style that meant it got kind of big sometimes. But it was a great show.

I'm a fan or naysayer like everyone else, not an authority of any kind.

I feel like in a lot of ways I've gotten kind of soft as an actor, not doing stage stuff. In terms of being a better actor, it's really important.

I always would be happy to make a character even more unlikable, but you know, there's a limit and if you go there, you get into a very different kind of movie, man.

A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest. I think that kind of thing is an abuse of history.

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.

I've kind of always done diagrams. It helped me think.

Anyway, my father became super-responsible. You know, he was the kind of person that absorbs all responsibility in the family, and then everybody else can act like a child in relation to him.

I started modeling myself on [ Buckminster Fuller], like with the hair. I reached an age where I sort of, kind of, looked like him a little bit, you know? I thought it was great.

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

I've been touring for so long, I've kind of honed into exactly what I am, I'm an artist so if you like it, you like it, if you don't you don't, you know?

Cowardice, when done correctly, can be its own kind of bravery.

She kind of reminds one of Helen. There's something very similar about Elizabeth Perkins.

A friend told me to listen to my heart. Another friend told me to listen to my gut. Maybe I need an autopsy, because right now my colon is kind of iffy.

By getting rid of loopholes, you are making the system more fair so people who make the same kind of money pay the same taxes.

I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.

Whatever kind of device or barrier or policy to secure the border, that's necessary to secure the border, then do it.

I live on a canyon at the edge of San Mateo. We are fortunate to have lots of suburban wildlife as our neighbors, though I kind of wish the rattlesnakes would stop curling up by our back door.

There's more to distract people, isn't there? When I was a kid there was music and football and clothes. And that was kind of it, really. Those three things defined you as a person.

You can listen to music at any moment in the day or night. Which is great, but I think it kind of devalues it as well.

So much is filtered by pop music today, because the music industry is driven by single, single, single, single, the next single, not the nurturing of artists and that kind of thing.

When I get this kind of support, I feel validated in my decision to stand up for myself.

I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely impulses and what not, and they've stayed with me and comforted me.

It gave me a sharp kind of sadness to think that no matter how much I loved him and tried to put him back together again, he might stay broken forever.

I didn't want to be a sweet boy's sweet girlfriend. I wanted to be Fawn's equal, the kind of girl who stood up for herself and took care of business, who cut guys loose when it was required.

All that was left for me was a terrible kind of paralysis, this waiting game, this heartbreak game.

When I see those ads with the quote 'You'll have to see this picture twice,' I know it's the kind of picture I don't want to see once.

The San Francisco Tape Music Centre was a kind of collective non-profit that my friends and I got started so that we could pool our equipment and make tape music.

Not knowing whether to wait or to forget is the worst kind of suffering.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

People in bigger towns are very aware of their surroundings. The people in the smaller markets, they will show up with flip-flops and shorts and just kind of already have a buzz on.

Son-In-Law was kind of my crossover. It was the movie that brought me out of the MTV audience into the mainstream.

The MTV thing is the thing that I will always tip my hat to because that was like my acting class and how I got comfortable in front of a camera and how I kind of created my own thing.

I think as a standup performer you have to feel the audience. So the audience kind of dictates what they get, you know?

I never made films like kind of career moves, like making this film in order to make that film in order to end up in Hollywood.

If you think about it, everything we do in life is set to some kind of music.

Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.