"Deciding what is being talked about is a kind of interpretive bet."
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"If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself"
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"I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11."
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"The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time."
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"I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well."
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"For me, filmmaking is an ongoing self-reflection process. I kind of push everything to the edge. I feel very exposed and fragile when I make a film. It's a process of dealing with loneliness. And it's also very dramatic - because while you are working on a film, you just realize how incapable you are of dealing with all these things. And you open yourself up, and it's like your heart is utterly exposed. And it's very tiring on a daily basis."
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"It was an addiction. A pointless, self-destructive addiction. But really, is there any other kind?"
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"Sorry, but the whole walking corpse epiphany kind of threw me off my game."
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"I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not."
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"When people recognise me they just kind of go 'Hi how are you,' really kind of cool you know."
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"A person influenced by circumstances can become viciously envious or affectionately kind. Our company and our surroundings have a crucial effect on our consciousness. How important it is to be an instrument to bring out the inherent good of each other rather than the worst."
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"(In) most cop shows, every cop in the squad speaks exactly the same and the same kind of short clipped film noir-ish talk."
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"I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation."
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"There's a kind of bad that gets so overpowering you can't even talk about it."
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"I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible."
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"I've been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it'd be awesome to work with him. He's really kind, and he's been really encouraging when we've met."
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"It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words."
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"Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must."
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"Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added."
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"I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check - it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in."
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