Kind Quotes

I was very keen. I was super-eager to please and be good. And I was always kind of bossy.

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

I'm kind of a builder of institutions. I think I've got some ability to look at what's out here, look at a playing field, and identify gaps and niches.

Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.

I couldn't change who I am; I couldn't change the kind of player I am.

I'm kind of a one-note at a time, one finger keyboard player.

But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me, and I've always been able to do more than you necessarily hear with every band I've ever played in.

I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear.

It's fun for me to play people that are just kind of odd.

It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.

The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career.

I never really planned on making action films. It just kind of happened.

There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.

My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and people I only knew in my heart, places I have seen only for a moment and places I have lived all my life.

I do think there is a great deal of caricature around the House of Commons. It is just that kind of place.

My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don't know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots.

I got pigeonholed a bit. When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted to be the kind of actress I became.

When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.

What kind of man would I have been if I had not been there to help her? I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached.

In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.

A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.

I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something.

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.

For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.

And me, myself personally, in order for there to be any kind of longevity there's gotta be some history.

Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality.

Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.

But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.

I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own.