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"Every time you're directing a movie you're kind of building a temporary business. You're hiring all these heads of departments, and it definitely feels like I'm like a CEO of a very temporary company."
"Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to."
"Everybody knows this legend in kind of African-American lore. There's always somebody in your neighborhood named Orangejello or Lemonjello. And that's spelled - Orangejello is spelled O-R-A-N-G-E-J-E-L-L-O."
"I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer - even as Wells thought about him - or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose."
"Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca. I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library."
"For me jazz is kind of an extension of hip-hop. Kind of the sad thing is that a lot of jazz people just listen to jazz, and a lot of hip-hop people just listen to hip-hop, and there's not a lot of crossover, unfortunately."
"I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement."
"If you give yourself too much time, you kind of over-obsess about the music. It's not supposed to be like that."
"When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That's kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame."
"I kind of do high-low style a lot."
"When you give up struggle, there's a kind of love."
"In a sense, I may not consciously know what I'm doing. I feel that I'm telling a story. I'm a kind of medium by which something is transmitted."
"There are two kinds of pain: the pain of change and the pain of never changing and remaining the same."
"I think, when you see kind of dysfunction among the Democrats of the Republicans, it impacts the whole country: the way we feel about each other, our ability to speak as one. And in this case, I think there are lots of Republicans who are worried about, does Donald Trump really represent conservatism?"
"I was trained by Stella Adler for theater so you kind of give it all on every take."
"I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background."
"We hit it off immediately, especially Helene, who was a 'swallow-life-in-big-gulps' kind of person."
"Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of “slave morality."
"If we think about sexual life for a gender life, it seems to me that we have to allow for certain kinds of changes or certain kinds of ways of reconceptualizing ourselves."
"Pittsburgh is kind of like Newark without the cultural advantages."
