I Quotes
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“I sort of hate the novel when it doesn't push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional.”
“I sort of have a dark, twisted, offbeat way of writing, which I see coming up in my kids. It's funny, on Halloween, one of my daughters said, "Halloween isn't supposed to be happy, dad, it's supposed to be dark. " No smiling pumpkins at the Sixx household!”
“I sort of have a dog-minded single strategy but I am a little more open to stuff that's out there, now and looking at scripts in the world and seeing if something that already exists can spark my interest and my curiosity.”
“I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.”
“I sort of have open invitations from a lot of people to do TV. But it's very hard for me to do roles in sitcoms and movies because I'm not a great actor, so if the material isn't good, I'm in torment while I do it.”
“I sort of have the belief that you work being your character out while you're working on it, or that's been my experience so far. I throw myself into it 100% and try to live in that world, and then when it's over, just sort of be able to leave it behind.”
“I sort of have to self-censor sometimes.”
“I sort of have various sort of theories when people ask me about songwriting because it is a mystery. You don't really know. Sometimes you can do it and sometimes you can't. It's really peculiar.”
“I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.”
“I sort of just wrote the songs, the way I wanted to write them, sing them the way I wanted to sing them, perform the way I wanted to perform.”
“I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.”
“I sort of knew very early on that I wanted to be a writer. Even in high school, I was a big movie buff, very much into TV shows, and would critique them.”
“I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.”
“I sort of like writing about weird characters, I guess.”
“I sort of liked the sound of bones breaking. It was like home.”
Source: Rebel
“I sort of lived half my life in California, half in England, so I am, I suppose, a little bit American.”
“I sort of look at music as helping me get through situations.”
“I sort of look at some peers of mine and I think, 'No, you've got it all wrong!' I just want to tell them all to have babies and be happy and not get sucked into that Hollywood thing.”
“I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.”
“I sort of love the idea of, you know, watching something and then having to wait for the next episode.”
“I sort of loved the bustle of a thousand questions. Women are inherently kind of multitaskers.”
“I sort of make believe. That's why I like acting. You can create or imagine anything.”
“I sort of miss the blond."
"It's not natural," I announce.
"Didn't think it was, but it suits you."
"Because it looks vaguely evil?" I guess.
He splits into a rare, full grin, but only for a second.”
Source: Book Lovers
“I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history.”
“I sort of play golf because a lot of my friends are into it, but I'm awful - my handicap is about six or seven thousand.”
“I sort of plunged into filmmaking. I decided I'd jump off the deep end, so I started thinking about what kind of a movie I should try to make.”
“I sort of pride myself in my dissatisfaction with my work. I've always been concerned with buying the hype, and having that make your performances suffer.”
“I sort of recognize it, as opposed to shaping it. Oh, that's a good idea, that's a good line. I wonder where I can use that. And when you get into a rhyme group like 'not,' you got a lot of rhymes, you got a lot of choices. The more you do it, the luckier you get.”
“I sort of refuse to be an outsider, even though I know that I very much look like one to a lot of people, and I refuse to view myself in such terms.”
“I sort of see [cannabis] as the pilot light of Gian consciousness.”
“I sort of set myself really high standards which is good and bad. If I know that I've done all I can to prepare, that's when I race the best and in '09 I was going through a lot of emotional ups and downs and I was never as fit as I would have liked to have been. So I never felt comfortable.”
“I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don’t necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality.”
“I sort of think in a way that many of us young reporters who had the opportunity to go overseas for our organizations were kind of, in a sense, war profiteers. We were enhancing our careers while covering that terrible conflict.”
“I sort of think of myself as part priest, part clown.”
“I sort of thought that maybe people had to talk that way, sort of saying the same things over and over because that way they can get along together without thinking." She stopped and thought. Why I was so worried,” she said, “was because if people didn't say those damn things over and over, then they wouldn't talk to each other at all.”
Source: Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories
“I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.”
“I sort of try to read the books when they come out impartially and not make up my mind, but the fact is when I was reading the sixth, 'Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince', there were bits in there where I was going, 'God, I would love to do that because it's so good'.”
“I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.”
“I sort of use as my guiding principle that show The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Whenever possible, do the stupid thing.”
“I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.”
“I sort of watched everyone go through it on that show ["Grey's Anatomy" ] because I came on later in the first season, so I kind of watched everyone else go through it but really I am so grateful and blessed and feel I have had such a great career and I love that fans love the shows that I do, and so when I get approached I still, I go, "Oh, thank you. That makes me feel good."”
“I sostenitori dell'eutanasia non sanno cosa sia la dignità umana e, nella migliore delle ipotesi, la confondono con la compassione.”
Source: Life Liberty & the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics
“I sought a great performer who would deeply impress me, and I found Lior Suchard.”
“I sought a reason in a garden in full bloom, and realized I had it with me all along- when autumn came.”
Source: The loneliness of the Fox
“I sought a third wand, Severus. The Elder Wand, the Wand of Destiny, the Deathstick. I took it from its previous master. I took it from the grave of Albus Dumbledore.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large.”
“I sought his giggles
beneath the ashes
where all his dreams
found home...”
Source: Line Breaker: A Collection of Poems
“I sought in political reporting what Galsworthy in another context had called "the significant trifle" - the bit of dialogue, the overlooked fact, the buried observation which illuminated the realities of the situation.”
Source: The Best of I.F. Stone
“I sought Morozova amplifiers for you Alina, so that we can rule as equals”
Source: Ruin and Rising
“I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.”