I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction; I also teach all kinds of not-so-traditional fiction.

When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.

I'm far from perfect but I have managed to earn a good deal of respect by trying to implement the kinds of things you learn about.

British humour is very cruel. It's my favourite kind of humour; if it isn't cruel and funny it doesn't really cut the cake for me.

She was smart and funny and vulnerable and just so goddamned beautiful, the kind of beautiful that was worth being shot down over.

The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia.

Eerily, the coronation was kind of a reverse of Tatianaʹs funeral. What was the old saying? The queen is dead. Long live the queen

There are all kinds of friends you make in life... But there's something different about someone who spreads their wings with you.

I'm always kind of hoping that I'll get a movie that shoots in Alabama so I can go back and kind of get a break from my city life.

Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.

There is no word for our kind of friendship. Two people who don't see each other a lot, but can make each other effortlessly happy

Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.

We're kind of a weird band anyway, where we never fit in with indie or pop. We never really sat with either of those genres fully.

To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.

Frankly, I've come to feel that there are two kinds of people: those who act like thermometers and those who act like thermostats.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith. It's kind of a more of a comedic-actiony film. And then we just started Ocean's [12] Monday. Or I did anyways.

If that's the kind of person you want, vote for Hillary [Clinton], vote for [Donald] Trump - and you go to hell with both of them.

That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.

I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me.

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

A lot of people provide me with quotes. They suggest all kinds of things to say and I do, really, because I'm not very hip at all.

You have to pay the price to be in the right place at the right time often enough that people tend to see you as the regular kind.

The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it.

Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer: You can do it, just not as well as the others, really.

I had grown up working in a video store, and I'd grown up more with film than I had with theater, so I kind of felt a natural call.

No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.

[While voicing cartoons] you have to lose your sanity and inhibitions and any kind of dignity and just throw yourself around a bit.

You should never lose heart. God is merciful and kind- he has endowed you with the best gift- smile, which can make millions happy.

When you start to become famous, you can hop into any kind of field just because of the name you have and the credentials you have.

It was definitely some tough moments throughout my life, but I kind of stayed focused and came through the other end of the tunnel.

The Congo Free State is unique in its kind. It has nothing to hide and no secrets and is not beholden to anyone except its founder.

There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail.

When you make a movie with Alejandro Amenábar, he very quickly... it was very clear you're kind of operating in his dream universe.

Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied, thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.

It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.

Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow.

The best tattooists are in San Francisco, and they're kind of like my family now. I'm always excited to come back to San Francisco.

Some people find the gift of salvation. For others the gifts are smaller: a kind word, a good deed. But all the gifts are from God.

I'm really kind of boring - I'd rather go to bed early and get up early because I really value my time off, my time away from work.

Robert De Niro is just evolved as a human being. He's a very kind guy. Age has been good for him, in terms of just, he's very kind.

Words are a form of personal expression. They differentiate us as well as fingerprints do. They reflect what kind of person we are.

You love each other – anyone can see that, looking at you – that kind of love that can burn down the world or raise it up in glory.

Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.

America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.

Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.

If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status.

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