"Kerouac was a breeze, some kind of incredible super-American, mythos personality blasting through the highways of 1947 America."
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"Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free."
"I don't like my movies. I prefer John Ford's movies. I've made some movies that are interesting, or that have some point, or are more or less beautiful. But I've never made anything big to me, from my point of view. "Big" like John Ford or someone of that kind. I say John Ford because he is my favorite director."
"We know how to work certain toys, and if you've got something in your head you know how to get in on tape, even if it's got an abstract sound to it. We are kind of producers as well as a band, so we're a self-contained unit. We can produce our own record as well as write it."
"You come out of doing that kind of side of electronic music, you're gonna take that knowledge with you and not ignore it. That'd be ridiculous to spend 10 years on something and not use that as an influence."
"Bonkers is kind of a combination of Jerry Lewis and Harpo Marx, which is very strange because Harpo never spoke!"
"Editing is kind of a solitary job."
"The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature."
"Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion."
"Kind pity chokes my spleen."
"I worked hard to meet his eyes, even though they were the kind of pretty that's hard to look at."
"Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind."
"And then it was the kind of dark your eyes never adjust to."
"I have two kinds of Facebook friends: Those who know what 'DFTBA' means, and those who don't."
"I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression."
"An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind."
"A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be there."
"The true virtue of human beings is fitness to live together as equals; claiming nothing for themselves but what they as freely concede to everyone else; regarding command of any kind as an exceptional neccessity, and in all cases a temporary one."
"It was kind of a prodding myself to play I Walk The Line straight."
"Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture."