Tend Quotes

More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did good, who worked hard and met every expectation. I strove to achieve in the excessive way that psychotherapists tend to regard with concern.

I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.

I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

I'm like 6'2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.

Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They're intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock'n'roll fans: sensible people I wouldn't mind having a drink with.

I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.

I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.

Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound.

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems-about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great.

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.

Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles.

I've been told before, and I tend to believe it, I'm not like most actresses out there.

And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys.

Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride.

I think in general, romantic comedies tend to take one person's point of view, but every once in a while you get something that is balanced for two people.

In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest.

But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.

We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great.

We tend to read each other's books in sizeable chunks as they are written. I don't know that you could say we are ruthless with each other - in fact, I suppose we are very kind. There are ways to make suggestions which are not destructive.

I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat.

I tend to not really care for re-makes in general. Mainly they are horrible.

My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.

Same thing, like my commercials are often times really funny because I tend to find 30 seconds is a really good amount of time to tell a joke.