Tend Quotes

I like funny guys and those, for some reason, tend to be nerdy guys.

We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.

National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense.

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

In my home I tend to eat a very simple version of what we cook at the restaurant, which is vegetable-oriented, with a little bit of fish and very little meat. For instance, a dish in my home could be steamed spinach with spruce, where I take a spruce branch and put it in the pot and that infuses into the spinach.

I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it.

If it's coming near the end of a chapter and I'm really getting into it, I tend to get up earlier and earlier, just because I'm excited to get to work.

Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy.

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking.

So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.

I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.

I tend to pick on the people I'm closest with because I know they know it's not personal.

People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.

Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.

I did not deal well with the politicians. I tend to tell people that when they are full of crap, that they are full of crap.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me.

But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost.

I tend to fall for the archetypal, talented, charismatic rock boy.

Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.

The logical process will often be the safe one. I tend, when I'm given that choice, to go the way that's not safe.

Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue.

I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

For whatever reason I tend to get roles that are more damaged.